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Original Screenplay: Milk Adapted Screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire Editing: Slumdog Millionaire Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire Art Direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Original Score: Slumdog Millionaire Original Song: «Jai Ho» from Slumdog Millionaire Costume Design: The Duchess Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Sound Editing: WALL - E Sound Mixing: WALL - E Visual Effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Foreign Language Film: Waltz with Bashir Documentary Feature: Man on Wire Documentary Short: The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306 Animated Feature: WALL - E Animated Short: Presto Live - Action Short: Auf der Strecke

Aside from Slumdog Millionaire, Beaufoy also scripted 127 Hours, The Full Monty and most recently adapted Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

Blatantly ripping pages from the Slumdog Millionaire playbook, Trash has a lot of razzle - dazzle poverty - chic with an exoticism that feels tastelessly touristy.

He plays the hapless part - owner and manager of the place, and viewers will recognize him from Slumdog Millionaire, in which he played the oldest incarnation of Jamal.

Danny Boyle's true tale of Aron Ralston, the trapped hiker who cut off his own arm with a penknife, is a world away from Slumdog Millionaire

But not even this turn of events could prise the night's focus away from Slumdog, just as not even the most potentially damaging allegations that its child stars had been exploited were, in the end, able to scrape any sheen off Boyle's crowdpleaser.

Not exact matches

Each cocktail has been inspired by events from the last 18 years, such as the Oscar haul director Danny Boyle picked up in 2009 for his film Slumdog Millionaire and the death of singer Amy Winehouse in 2011.

From an early footchase in which the careening camera gives us a tour of the maze - like slums, to the ridiculously uplifting Bollywood dance number that plays over the end credits, Slumdog Millionaire makes for kinetic, exhilarating entertainment.

Patel, from «Slumdog Millionaire,» is bumptious and voluble, and a little bit of his scampering around the hotel is more than enough.

«Doubt» pulls down another ensemble win while truly astounding group performances from films such as «Synecdoche, New York,» «Gomorrah» and, indeed, «Slumdog Millionaire» continue to be ignored.

But then Slumdog snatched two consecutive awards from its competitor: best sound mixing and best editing.

We're a long way from the back - to - back Best Picture success of «12 Years a Slave» and «Birdman,» plus Oscar favorites like «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» «Slumdog Millionaire,» «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» and «The Descendants.»

TIFF hasn't premiered a Best Picture winner since «Crash» in 2004, but Toronto was where the Venice or Telluride enthusiasm for «Slumdog Millionaire,» «Argo,» «The King's Speech,» «12 Years a Slave,» and «Spotlight» began to turn from spark to flame.

Trishna stars Frieda Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) as a young woman from the lower classes who meets and falls in love with a young British businessman (Riz Ahmed).

It was the same story in 2009, when «Slumdog Millionaire» came from behind to beat «Milk» and «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» and then bask in Oscar glory.

When two children were picked from a Mumbai slum to star in Slumdog Millionaire, the big question was how they would cope with the grubbiness of reality once out of the spotlight.

«Slumdog Millionaire» has won the best cinematography award from the National Society of Film Critics, US.

If anything, the probable coronation of «Slumdog Millionaire» this year suggests a retreat from contentious filmmaking.

This year's Cinderella story,» Slumdog Millionaire», a «rag to riches film based on the life of a young slumdweller of Mumbai, has won the best cinematography award from the National Society of Film Critics, US.

Freida, who was in Slumdog Millionaire and Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, plays Trishna and gives a performance that will break your heart as she's taken away from her simple life and hurled into the big city by Riz Ahmed.

But I «m affraid that some generic Oscar wankjob that makes AMPAS feel good about themselves, like Crash, Driving Miss Daisy, Slumdog, will emerge from Toronto.

The truth is that «Slumdog» would likely be a BAFTA favourite even if it weren't primed for Oscar glory — a true British success story, from a popular but largely unsung hometown filmmaker, featuring a British lead actor from a high - profile Channel 4 TV drama, it's been a massive local box - office success, and has enjoyed nearly the same level of critical adulation here as in the States.

Best Picture: «Slumdog Millionaire» Best Director: Danny Boyle, «Slumdog Millionaire» Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, «The Wrestler» Best Actress: Kate Winslet, «The Reader» Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, «The Dark Knight» Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Adapted Screenplay: «Slumdog Millionaire» Best Original Screenplay: «WALL - E» Best Animated Feature Film: «WALL - E» Best Art Direction: «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Best Cinematography: «The Dark Knight» Best Costume Design: «The Duchess» Best Film Editing: «Slumdog Millionaire» Best Makeup: «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Best Music (Original Score): «WALL - E» Best Music (Original Song): «Down to Earth» from «WALL - E» Best Sound Editing: «WALL - E» Best Sound Mixing: «WALL - E» Best Visual Effects: «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button»

Slumdog Millionaire is 2008's little movie made big, a film that almost crashed before release from studio and financial roadblocks.

Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris direct from a script by Slumdog Millionaire «s Simon Beaufoy.

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) are directing the film from a script by Oscar winner Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire).

The well - mounted movie, told entirely from the point of view of a young girl (Sareum Srey Moch) and impeccably shot by Anthony Dod Mantle («Slumdog Millionaire») with a sensitive score by Marco Beltrami, made audiences weep and scored a rapturous standing ovation.

Slumdog Millionaire star Patel is in line for the best supporting actor gong for playing a young man separated from his family and using Google Earth to find his way home in Lion.

With upsets like Ellen Page's win over Helen Mirren in 2006 and «The Dark Knight» besting «Slumdog Millionaire» in 2008, it's no surprise the AFCA has been called everything from «wildly contrarian» (Entertainment Weekly) to «progressive... compared to their counterparts» (FEARnet).

Running time: 129 minutes Studio: Fox Home Entertainment 3 - Disc DVD Extras: Widescreen theatrical feature film, unrated director's cut, Wolverine theatrical trailer, Valkyrie, S. Darko, The Wrestler, Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, commentary by director George Tillman, Jr., screenwriters Reggie Rock Bythewood and Cheo Hodari Coker, and editor Dirk Westervelt, commentary by with Biggie's mom Voletta Wallace, and his manager Wayne Barrow, Behind the Scenes: The Making of Notorious, I Got a Story to Tell: The Lyrics of Biggie Smalls, Notorious Thugs: Casting the Film, Biggie Boot Camp, Anatomy of a B.I.G. Performance, Party & [Expletive](never before seen footage), The B.I.G. Three - Sixty, Directing the Last Moments, It Happened Right Here, The Petersen Exit, The Shooting, The Impala, The Unfortunate Violent Act, The Window, 9 Deleted Scenes, 4 extended / alternate concerts, trailers from: Secret Life of Bees, Gospel Hill and Slumdog Millionaire, digital copy.

This is the engaging premise of Slumdog Millionaire, a genre - defying romantic thriller from Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan.

Stephen Daldry, working from Richard Curtis's exploitative script, opts for a full - on Slumdog Millionaire imitation.

His plots may portray a fallen world — from the murder, greed, and romantic betrayal of his debut, Shallow Grave (94), to the grinding poverty, ethnic pogroms, and child slavery of Slumdog Millionaire (08)-- but with the reliability of a Victorian novelist, Boyle rewards virtue, punishes vice, and ensures that True Love conquers all.

Roy finds himself looking into the window of a flat across from his, where on display is the lovely Dia, who, as she is played by Freida Pinto from «Slumdog Millionaire,» makes it hard for us to blame him.

Beautifully shot by Anthony Dod Mantle (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire), The Eagle benefits from fantastic use of shadows and light, lush landscapes, misty atmosphere, and fluid camerawork, as befitting a cinematic epic battle tale.

Milk: Confirms already suspected prominence, drives the fight against Prop 8 Slumdog Millionaire: will hold steady but a win from NYFCC as well makes it the probable Best Pic winner.

Penn said he was sitting two feet away from the filmmaker at the recently concluded Palm Springs International Film Festival when it was remarked upon that Slumdog Millionaire «s Freida Pinto — also present at both events — was very beautiful.

Directed with kinetic style by Danny Boyle and featuring brilliant performances from a cast of actors unknown to American audiences, «Slumdog Millionaire» plunges us soul - deep into a world of unimaginable poverty and breathtaking beauty.

A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, «Slumdog Millionaire,» the latest from the British shape - shifter Danny Boyle, doesn't travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next.

Adapted by Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy from Ben Fountain's novel, Billy Lynn follows the titular 19 - year - old soldier (Alwyn), who along with his squad has survived a tough battle in Iraq that made headlines and turned the troops into instant celebrities.

«The Last Airbender,» featuring Dev Patel from «Slumdog Millionaire,» is an adaptation of a previous animated series, and although aimed at kids in the end seems tentative and... aimless.

Working from a sensational, intimately layered script written by Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire, The Full Monty) and directed with dexterous skill by Little Miss Sunshine impresarios Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, this empowering, exuberantly enthusiastic motion picture creates such a palpable sense of joy in the viewer it gives one hope things really will turn for the better sooner rather than later.

From ACADEMY AWARD ® - Winning director Danny Boyle * (Slumdog Millionaire) comes an exhilarating brain - twister (New York Post)!

Best Picture (Drama): «Slumdog Millionaire» Best Picture (Musical / Comedy): «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Director: Danny Boyle, «Slumdog Millionaire» Best Actor (Drama): Sean Penn, «Milk» Best Actress (Drama): Anne Hathaway, «Rachel Getting Married» Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Dustin Hoffman, «Last Chance Harvey» Colin Farrell, «In Bruges» Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Sally Hawkins, «Happy - Go - Lucky» Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, «The Dark Knight» Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, «Slumdog Millionaire» Best Foreign Language Film: «Everlasting Moments» Best Animated Feature: «WALL - E» Best Original Music Score: Alexandre Desplat, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Best Original Song: Bruce Springsteen, «The Wrestler» from «The Wrestler»

127 Hours is Boyle's follow - up to Slumdog Millionaire and like that deserving 2008 Best Picture winner, this drama takes Boyle away from his native England, albeit to a place less exotic and far less populous than Mumbai: Utah.

Although British director Danny Boyle credited the Toronto exposure of «Slumdog Millionaire» with saving the India - based crowd - pleaser from obscurity before going on to win the 2008 best - picture Oscar, he decided to premiere his «Steve Jobs» at Telluride instead.

The recent trend away from more challenging fare towards more sentimental, feelgood films really started with Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire.

Freida Pinto's latest project finds her far away from the Mumbai slums of Slumdog Millionaire.

Millennium Entertainment chief Avi Lerner stuck to a round table in the center of the courtyard at the event launching a coffee table book that includes photos from actors, models, and luminaries to support the movement that has raised $ 35 million since the year «Slumdog Millionaire» won Best Picture.

Credit should also be given to Oscar winners Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) and Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) who adapted the screenplay from the book by Collins, which many consider the best in the series.