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'Slumdog Millionaire' wins 8 Oscars including best picture, director (Danny Boyle)
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"Slumdog Millionaire" actors Dev Patel and Anil Kapoor on India's version
of "Who Wants to be A Millionaire?"
The underdog kicked some serious tail at the Academy Awards as low-budget "Slumdog Millionaire" won eight Oscars — best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best score, best song, best sound mixing and best film editing.
Director Danny Boyle jumped up and down 'in the spirit of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh" because that's what he promised his kids he would do "if this miracle ever happened."
A.R. Rahman, who won Oscars for best score and best song, said the movie — set in the squalor of Mumbai's slums — was about hope and optimism: All my life, I've had a choice of hate and love. I chose love, and I'm here."
That attitude is what makes "Slumdog" such an amazing ghetto-to-glory story for everyone involved.
The film almost didn't make it to American theaters after Warner Brothers closed it's independent pictures division, which had paid $5 million to distribute the film in the United States. Eventually Fox Searchlight took a chance on the film, which had no recognizable stars, and debuted it at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals.
- Read the full story about how "Slumdog" went from mutt to millionaire at the Los Angeles Times.
If you haven't yet seen "Slumdog Millionaire," get to a theater and see what all the fuss is about. You'll see why it's been called a riveting, buoyant hymn to life.
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