'Slumdog Millionaire' bagged 7 BAFTA Awards & 5 Critics' Choice Awards

Actors Dev Patel, Irfan Khan, Freida Pinto, and Anil Kapoor pose with their award for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture for 'Slumdog Millionaire' in the press room at the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on January 25, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.





'Slumdog Millionaire' , a rags-to-riches story, directed by British director Danny Boyle has bagged 7 British Film Academy Awards(Bafta) 2009. The film won seven trophies, including those for best film, best director(Danny Boyle) ,best original music score(A.R.Rahman),cinematography(Anthony Dod Mantle), editing(Chris Dickens), sound editing(Resul Pookutty, Glenn Freementle, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers & Ian Tapp)and adapted screenplay(Simon Beaufoy).

The film had earlier hogged the limelight at Critics' Choice Awards in California, winning five prizes, including best film, best director and best composer.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE MADE IT TO OSCAR NOMINATIONS

Slum Dog Millionaire , directed by British director Danny Boyle , after winning 4 Golden Globe awards at 66th Golden Globe Awards Ceremony held on January 11, 2009, Los Angeles , has now been nominated in 10 categories for the most prestigious Oscar awards .
Awards won by Slumdog Millionaire at Golden Globe Awards include
1. Best Motion Picture -Drama
2. Best Director - Danny Boyle
3. Best Screenplay - Simon Beaufoy
4. Best Original Score - A.R.Rahman

In Oscar nominations, Danny Boyle has been nominated for best director category & Indian veteran music director A.R. Rehman in best music director category. A.R. Rhman has also won the best music director's award at Golden Globe awards. Now, let's see how many awards are going to be won by this movie out of the 10 nominations for Oscar awards.
This movie focussed on the slum life of Mumbai & is based on the novel Q and A which is written by Indian author & diplomat Vikas Swaroop who hails from Allahabad (U.P.) .
Director Danny Boyle has also won Director's Guild of America (DGA) award for this movie.
After this movie's huge success India is feeling very proud for both Vikas Swarup & A.R. Rehman whose every creation is a masterpiece. With this award A.R. Rehman has become the first Indian to win Golden Globe Award for best original music score.

It has been nominated for eleven Bafta Awards & 10 Academy Awards. It won five of the six awards it was nominated for at the Critics' Choice Awards under the categories
1. Best film
2. Best Young Performer - Dev Patel
3. Best Director - Danny Boyle
4. Best Screenplay - Simon Beaufoy
5. Best Composer - A.R. Rahman

Cast & Crew of 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Director - Danny Boyle
Co-drector - Loveleen Tandan
Composer - A.R. Rehman
Producer - Christina Colson
Executive Producer - Paul Smith
Screenwriter - Simon Beaufoy
Actors - Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Mahesh Manjrekar