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Oscars 2009: Slumdog Millionaire sweeps the board

by Sanjay Jha | February 22, 2009 at 09:23 pm

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With eight Oscars in its kitty Danny Boyle's crowdpleaser Slumdog Millionaire had a runaway sucess at the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood. British director's Mumbai's poverty ridden melodrama won in all catgories except one.

Slumdog got two consecutive awards for best sound mixing and best editing. Soon afterwards the film's composer, AR Rahman won prize for best soundtrack and best song. He also performed the winning number, Jai Ho. Earlier in the evening, Simon Beaufoy had won the award for best screenplay, while Anthony Dod Mantle took the gong for best cinematography.

Partial list of winners at the 81st annual Academy Awards, presented Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:

_ Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight."

_ Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."

_ Foreign Film: "Departures," Japan.

_ Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire."

_ Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, "Milk."

_ Animated Feature Film: "WALL-E."

_ Art Direction: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

_ Cinematography: "Slumdog Millionaire."

_ Sound Mixing: "Slumdog Millionaire."

_ Sound Editing: "The Dark Knight."

_ Original Score: "Slumdog Millionaire," A.R. Rahman.

_ Original Song: "Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire," A.R. Rahman and Gulzar.

_ Costume: "The Duchess."

_ Documentary Feature: "Man on Wire."

_ Documentary (short subject): "Smile Pinki."

_ Film Editing: "Slumdog Millionaire."

_ Makeup: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

_ Animated Short Film: "La Maison en Petits Cubes."

_ Live Action Short Film: "Spielzeugland (Toyland)."

_ Visual Effects: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

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Academy Award winners previously announced this season:

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (Oscar statuette): Jerry Lewis

Gordon E. Sawyer Award (Oscar statuette): Pixar Animation co-founder Ed Catmull

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caj1

at 21:40 on February 22nd, 2009

Sanjay, This is a timely story. I'm happy for all the winners.

grayhound

at 08:48 on February 23rd, 2009

It is indeed a very good film, but it doesn't really stick to the who wants to be a millionaire format accurately, especially with the phone a friend part, the host interrupts the contestant during the phone call, nor would they allow a "phone a friend" not to be on the other end of the phone, let alone someone else, I don't know how it is done in in India, I would have thought it would have to be exactly the same format around the world. Chris Tarrant would not have made such basic errors. Sorry, no Oscars for accuracy.