Slumdog Millionaire gets 10 Oscar Nominations!

Posted by on Jan 23, 2009 in Indian Cinema

Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, a British movie with an India centric theme has been nominated for 10 Academy Award winners (commonly known as the Oscars). One of the 10 nominations it received included the one for the Best Picture! The Slumdog Millionaire is competing with four other movies in the Best Picture Category.

India’s very own AR Rahman has made the country proud by getting three nominations, even if he wins one of them (most probably he could get an award for the Best Song as he has got two nominations in this category and his two songs are competiting with just another one song), he would have made history for his country! So far only one Indian has won an Oscar and that is Bhanu Athaiya who shared the 1982 Academy Award for Costume Design with John Mollo for their work in ‘Gandhi’. In 1992, veteran filmmaker Satyajit Ray was awarded an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.

The winners of the 81st Academy Awards will be announced during the awards ceremony on the 22nd of next month in Hollywood, Los Angeles. All in all there are 24 Oscars to be given away along with a couple of more honorary awards.

Slumdog Millionaire has already won the Golden Globe Awards for the Best Picture in Drama while AR Rahman won the Golden Globe Award for the Best Original Score.

Here are the 10 nominations that the Slumdog Millionaire has won for the 81st Academy Awards in 9 categories:

1. Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire is competing with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, and The Reader.
2. Best Director: Danny Boyle, the Director of Slumdog Millionaire competes with David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon) Gus Van Sant (Milk) and Stephen Daldry (The Reader).
3. Best Original Song: The songs “Jai Ho” and “O Saya” from the Slumdog Millionaire composed by AR Rahman have both been nominated along with “Down to Earth” from WALL-E which was composed by the duo of Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman with the former doubling up as the writer. Veteran Hindi lyricist Gulzar has written the song “Jai Ho” while the “O Saya” song was written by Maya Arulpragasam.
4. Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy for Slumdog Millionaire along with Eric Roth and Robin Swicord (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon) and David Hare (The Reader).
5. Best Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle for Slumdog Millionaire competes with Tom Stern (Changeling), Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight) and Chris Menges, Roger Deakins (The Reader).
6. Best Film Editing: Chris Dickens for Slumdog Millionaire along with Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Lee Smith (The Dark Knight), Mike Hill, Dan Hanley (Frost/Nixon) and Elliot Graham (Milk).
7. Best Original Score: A.R. Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire has competition from Alexandre Desplat (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), James Newton Howard (Defiance), Danny Elfman (Milk) and Thomas Newman (WALL-E).
8. Best Sound Editing: Tom Sayers for Slumdog Millionaire along with Richard King (The Dark Knight), Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes (Iron Man), Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood (WALL-E) and Wylie Stateman (Wanted).
9. Best Sound Mixing: Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty for Slumdog Millionaire have been nominated along with David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick (The Dark Knight), Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt (WALL-E) and Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt (Wanted).

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