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81st Academy Awards
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Slumdog Millionaire won eight awards, including Chief Picture.[9][10][11] Hit winners star The Meddlesome Case work out Benjamin Button with triad awards, The Dark Knight and Milk with cardinal, and Departures, The Duchess, La Maison en Petits Cubes, Man on Wire, The Reader, Smile Pinki, Toyland, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and WALL-E with given. The broadcast garnered
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Opinion It shouldnt have won
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But look at the themes of the other movies that were nominated this year. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,the love story of a man who is born as an extreme geriatric and keeps getting younger and dies as a newborn. Only for a brief period of time are the man and his beloved around the same compatible age. Of course its an impossible concept and completely unbelievable,but its a high concept. Milk is about the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States; Frost/Nixon about the first interview disgraced US President Richard Nixon gave,to has-been TV journalist David Frost. For both of them,it is a chance for redemption,for a somewhat sane life. These are all big themes. I am not doubting Slumdogs quality as a film in any way. Danny Boyle is one of the most talented directors around. But comparing Slumdog to The Reader is almost impossible. Its like comparing A Christmas Carol to Great Expectations.
Scrooge won,little Pip lost. But thats the way it has been with the Oscars. Sometimes the nominations reflect the mood of Americas liberals,sometimes the winners reflect political correctness. In 2006,the following five films were nominated: Good Night and Good Luck,Brokeba
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How India shone at the Oscars
hen sound editor Resul Pookutty joined a very small group of Oscar-winning Indians (following Gandhi costume designer Bhanu Athaiya and Satyajit Ray, who won a lifetime achievement award), he invoked the word Om.
He certainly set an Oscar record at the evening that belonged to the rags-to-riches love story, Slumdog Millionaire.
Another record was set when A R Rahman, winner of two Oscars (for the song Jai Ho and the movie score) for Slumdog Millionaire, used a Tamil expression. The movie nominated for 10 Oscars in nine categories had a dream run at the 81st edition of the Academy Awards, winning eight trophies, including for best film and best director.
In a way, the Oscar ceremony evening belonged to India.
Though Slumdog is a British film distributed in North America by an American mini studio, Fox Searchlight, the stage at the Oscar event was filled with Indian talent after the film won the best Oscar beating heavyweight films like The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.
Apart from most of the key players including the kids, Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan, and apart from A R Rahman, there was also diplomat and novelist Vikas Swarup, whose book Q&A inspired Simon Beaufoy's Oscar-winning adapted screenplay.
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