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"Slumdog Millionaire" -- is history. It is East meeting West, Bollywood meeting Hollywood, a film that was going nowhere winning the biggest prize in the movie business. At Sunday's 81st annual Academy Awards, "Slumdog" won eight Oscars, including best picture, director and adapted screenplay, completing a joyful ride that had carried it to wins at the Golden Globes, Writers Guild, Directors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. Slumdog's" filmmakers were jubilant at the wins, which also included Oscars for best director (Danny Boyle), best adapted screenplay (Simon Beaufoy), score (A.R. Rahman), cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle), song, sound mixing and film editing.
Directed by Briton Danny Boyle, based on Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup's novel Q & A, the film had received 10 Oscar nominations, including three for Indian music maestro A R Rahman and one for Resul Pookutty for sound mixing. British director Danny Boyle's hit film not only won the Oscars for best picture and best director at Sunday night's annual Academy Awards ceremony at Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, but also for six others including two for Rahman.
Indian music maestro 'Mozard of Madras' AR Rahman made history as he became the first Indian to win two Oscars as Slumdog Millionaire, the rags to riches story of a boy from the slums of Mumbai, swept the annual Academy Awards. "God is great!" (Yella Pugazhum Iraivanukkae)Rahman exclaimed in Tamil as he picked up the awards, saying he was as excited and terrified before coming here as he was at his marriage.
"Slumdog Millionaire" -- is history. It is East meeting West, Bollywood meeting Hollywood, a film that was going nowhere winning the biggest prize in the movie business. At Sunday's 81st annual Academy Awards, "Slumdog" won eight Oscars, including best picture, director and adapted screenplay, completing a joyful ride that had carried it to wins at the Golden Globes, Writers Guild, Directors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. Slumdog's" filmmakers were jubilant at the wins, which also included Oscars for best director (Danny Boyle), best adapted screenplay (Simon Beaufoy), score (A.R. Rahman), cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle), song, sound mixing and film editing.
Directed by Briton Danny Boyle, based on Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup's novel Q & A, the film had received 10 Oscar nominations, including three for Indian music maestro A R Rahman and one for Resul Pookutty for sound mixing. British director Danny Boyle's hit film not only won the Oscars for best picture and best director at Sunday night's annual Academy Awards ceremony at Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, but also for six others including two for Rahman.Indian music maestro 'Mozard of Madras' AR Rahman made history as he became the first Indian to win two Oscars as Slumdog Millionaire, the rags to riches story of a boy from the slums of Mumbai, swept the annual Academy Awards. "God is great!" (Yella Pugazhum Iraivanukkae)Rahman exclaimed in Tamil as he picked up the awards, saying he was as excited and terrified before coming here as he was at his marriage.
Competing with Jai ho for the second Oscar was another song composed by Rahman, O Saya from Slumdog Millionaire, with its lyrics too written by him with Maya Arulpragasam (MIA). He also sang the song with Maya, the British singer of Sri Lankan origin. Apart from Rahman, India's Resul Pookutty shared the Oscar with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke in the sound mixing category in the rags-to-riches story.
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