In addition to being nominated in the best picture, director, adapted screenplay and music categories for the Oscars, Slumdog Millionaire is also expected to be nominated for cinematography, editing and costumes.
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A R Rahman on Monday created history by becoming the first Indian to win two Oscars for his score in Slumdog Millionaire which swept the Academys, winning eight awards including one for sound engineer Resul Pookutty. The film, named the best at the Oscars, also fetched Danny Boyle the Best Director award, Simon Beaufoy best Adapted Screenplay and Anthony Dod Mantle the best Cinematography award. The rags-to-riches drama was also awarded for best Editing
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Slumdog Millionaire might have won accolades the world over but parents of two children starring in the rags-to-riches tale set in Mumbai have accused the producers of exploitation.
Slumdog Millionaire bagged 10 Oscar nominations at the 81st annual Academy Awards.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated in the following BAFTA categories: Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Music, Production Design, Sound and Outstanding British Film.
Slumdog Millionaire has bagged five prestigious prizes including Best Composer award for Indian music maestro A R Rahman at Broadcast Film Critics Association's 14th annual Critics Choice Awards.
After making waves overseas, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is all set to release in India in January.
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After bagging a Golden Globe nomination, the music maestro is once again in Oscar race with his song 'If I Rise' from 127 Hours making it to the Academy shortlist for the Original Song category.
But the icing in the cake will be the presence of its Oscar winners -- music director A R Rahman, lyricist Gulzar and sound engineer Resul Pookutty -- at the special screening.
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The 25-year-old actress, who shot to global fame with her small role as Latika in Danny Boyle's multiple-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, will play Caroline, a primatologist in the 20th Century Fox movie.
Based on Vikas Swarup's bestseller Q & A, the film however did not strictly adhere to the book. In fact, according to a guardian,co.uk report, the movie was given an extreme makeover.
Slumdog Millionaire not only getting the some of the best reviews in recent years but also doing brisk business in arthouses. The Danny Boyle directed film, focusing on three slum children in Mumbai and their tryst with fate as grown-ups, grossed a highly promising $420,000 in just five days in 10 theatres in North American cities.
Judging from the trailer, the film starring Shah Rukh Khan is clearly the kind of film that will either be groundbreaking or groanworthy.
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Congratulating Freida on her outstanding success, Ambassador Prabhu Dayal said it was not important whether the movie was directed by an Indian or not as long as the storyline and the entire backdrop was Indian.
Slumdog is a hopeful look at today's India. It is a powerful reflection of a country that was tied up in shackles with flawed socialist visions. Everybody -- from the slum dwellers to the middle class young adults who work in call centers to the rich elite and even the gangsters -- wants a piece of the booming India, And nothing seems to be able to stop them.
Though Irrfan Khan did not walk the red carpet for Slumdog Millionaire at Golden Globes Awards. He is very happy that he is part of the movie Slumdog Millionaire. As the film won 4 awards for the film in different categories we spoke to Irrfan Khan on how he feels about his film winning the movie and he not being present at the award function.
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Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, an art house hit in America and Canada and which will roll out of across the United Kingdom next month, grabbed a trio of top awards at the British Independent Film Awards. The film, which is slowly adding extra theatres each week, was No 11 on the North American box-office chart for the weekend, earning $1.36 million, taking its total to $3.6 million. It is in 49 theatres, having added 17 over the weekend.
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