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O la la la, Slumdog Millionaire Wins Fourth Oscar – for Film Editing

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Feb 222009
 
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Amazing. Amazing.

The gorgeous Slumdog Millionaire has just won the fourth Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards ceremony.

Slumdog Millionaire has been awarded the Oscar for Best Film Editing (Chris Dickens).

Slumdog’s rivals in this category:

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
* The Dark Knight – Lee Smith
* Frost/Nixon – Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley
* Milk – Elliot Graham

Directed by Danny Boyle, this fine movie has already picked up three other Oscars tonight – for Best Adapted Screenplay, Sound Mixing and Cinematography.

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Yipee, Slumdog Millionaire Wins Third Oscar – for Sound Mixing

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Feb 222009
 
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Keep it coming. Keep it coming.

The absolutely delightful Slumdog Millionaire has just won the third Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards ceremony.

Slumdog Millionaire has been awarded the Oscar for Sound Mixing (Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty)

Slumdog’s rivals in this category:

    * The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
    * The Dark Knight – Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick
    * WALL-E – Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
    * Wanted – Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt

Directed by Danny Boyle, this extraordinary movie has already picked up two Oscars – for Best Adapted Screenplay and Cinematography.

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Smile Pinki Wins Documentary Short Oscar

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Feb 222009
 
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Smile Pinki (directed by Megan Mylan) has won the Best Documentary Short Oscar.

Set in India, the documentary focuses on Pinki, a poor five-year-old rural Indian girl with cleft lip.

Bravo, Pinki.

Bravo Megan.

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Heath Ledger Wins Best Supporting Actor Oscar

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Feb 222009
 
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The late actor extraordinaire Heath Ledger has won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Dark Knight.

How sad that Heath is not with us anymore.

RIP, wherever you are Heath.

As we wrote last year after watching Heath Ledger’s electrifying performance in Dark Knight:

If Heath Ledger were not already dead, we’d have surely killed him with our bare hands for being careless with the prescription drugs that took the life of this amazing actor prematurely in January.

To watch Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight is to rejoice in a performer who had reached the ne plu ultra, the summit of his short film career.

Heath Ledger was just Vanilla good in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Continue reading »

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Slumdog Millionaire Wins Second Oscar – for Cinematography

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Feb 222009
 
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Folks, God exists.

Yes, he/she/it definitely does (Forget all we’ve said before about the non-existence of God. Blame all that nonsense on Johnny Walker).

To our immense delight, Slumdog Millionaire has just won the second Oscar for the night – for Cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle)

Slumdog Millionaire’s rivals included:

* Changeling – Tom Stern
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda
* The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister
* The Reader – Chris Menges, Roger Deakins

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Slumdog Millionaire Wins First Oscar

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Feb 222009
 
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Slumdog Wins Second Oscar – Best Cinematography

Hooray, Danny Boyle’s lovely movie Slumdog Millionaire, which is set amidst the slums of Mumbai, has just won its first Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards ceremony.

Folks, Slumdog Millionaire has just won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay – Simon Beaufoy (the screenplay is based on the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup).

Slumdog Millionaire beat out the following contenders:

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
* Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
* The Reader – David Hare
* Doubt – John Patrick Shanley

After sweeping the Golden Globes, Slumdog Millionaire received 10 Oscar nominations including three for music maestro A.R.Rahman.

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