>From Wiki-
Foreign language winners
* Manos Hadjidakis was the first to receive this award for a song
originally written in a language other than English, in 1960 for "Never on
Sunday" (Greek title "Ta Paidia toy Peiraia") from the Greek film Never on
Sunday (Greek title Pote tin Kyriaki).
* Jorge Drexler was the second foreign language songwriter to win the
Best Original Song Oscar, for "Al Otro Lado del Río" from The Motorcycle
Diaries in 2004. That year another foreign language writing pair were
nominated, composer Bruno Coulais and lyricist Christophe Barratier for "Vois
Sur Ton Chemin (Look To Your Path)" from the French movie Les Choristes.
* A. R. Rahman and Gulzar are the third and fourth foreign language
songwriters to win in the Best Original Song category, which they shared for
the Hindi song "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire, at the 81st Academy Awards in
2009. That same year, "O... Saya", another partly Hindi song from the same film
by Rahman and M.I.A., was also nominated, making it the first time two foreign
language songs were nominated in the
category.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Song
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> One Question..Is Jai Ho the first non-english song to be nominated and have
> won the oscars in the best song category?
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