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`Slumdog Millionaire' wins Oscar for Best Movie
London Angeles Feb. 22, 2009 "Slumdog Millionaire" wins the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film's unlikely rise to Hollywood's summit. It is the most coveted recognitions in the film industry today, and have been since 1929, when they were first handed out. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
"Slumdog Millionaire was made for around $14 million and was nearly passed over for cinema release, has so far grossed approaching $100 million at the box office. It is nominated for 10 Academy Awards and, were it to win seven, would equal the record set by Shakespeare in Love, the last British film to sweep the Oscars 10 years ago. The very young stars, including Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, who plays the film's hero as a child, were flown from their homes in Mumbai to Hollywood for the ceremony. Boyle said they had been practicing their English in readiness for their red carpet appearance. Co-stars Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Bollywood legend Anil Kapoor, all Oscar first timers, struggled to contain their excitement during red carpet interviews, as did director Danny Boyle. On-screen lovers Patel and Pinto, clad in a bright blue John Galliano gown, were asked about rumours - stoked by co-star Kapoor - that they were dating in real life. Both brushed off the claims with Pinto, 24, seeming to suggest Patel, 18, was too young for her. Patel said: "There must be bigger things in the news." "Slumdog" composer A.R. Rahman, a dual Oscar winner for the score and song, said the movie was about "optimism and the power of hope." "All my life, I've had a choice of hate and love," Rahman said. "I chose love, and I'm here.
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