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List of Oscar Winners at 81st Academy Award Ceremony

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:54:50 +0000

Best Actor: Sean Penn (Milk)
Best Actress: Kate Winslet (The Reader)

Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire)
Be Best Film Editing: Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best Original Score: A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best Original Song: “Jai Ho” (Slumdog Millionaire) Music composed by A.R. Rahman and Lyrics by Gulzar
Best Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best Sound Mixing: Resul Pookutty, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke (Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz (Vicky Christina Barcelona)
Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black (Milk)
Best Sound Editing: Richard King (The Dark Knight)
Best Visual Effects: Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Best Art Direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Costume Design: Michael O’Connor (The Duchess)

Best Makeup: Greg Cannom (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Best Foreign Language Film: ‘Departures’ (Japan)
Best Animated Feature: ‘Wall-E’
Best Short Film (Live Action): Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Best Short Film (Animated): La Maison En Petits Cubes
Best Documentary Feature: Man on Wire
Best Documentary Short Subject: Smile Pinki

Slumdog with three more British awards is wide awake for the Oscars

admin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:24:11 +0000

Slumdog Millionaire is just waiting for its biggest day the 22nd of Feb 2009. Yes, the film which has to its credit the four Golden Globes and many international awards has 11 nominations for Oscar. Recently it bagged three British Awards. The Attenborough British Film of the Year, British Director of the Year for Danny Boyle and the Best Screenplay Award for Simon Beaufoy. It will really be a surprise of this does not make it at the Oscars though there are top guns fighting for the most coveted award in the world.

Slumdog Millionaire Marching Towards Crown in Oscars

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:31:06 +0000

Golden Globes winner and multiple bafta nominations fame ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is on the war path to make yet another history. Today the Oscar winning actor Forest Whitaker announced that the academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater, the categories under which the ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ have been nominated.

Best adapted screenplay (Simon Beaufoy), best original score (AR Rahman), best song (one each for Jai Ho and O Saya), best sound mixing (Resul Pookutty), best sound editing (Resul Pookutty), best director (Danny Boyle), this apart, it is also nominated for best picture, best editing and best cinematography.

Danny Boyle thanked the people of Mumbai city and said that the city was so wonderful and felt elated to see 10 nominations in Oscars.