When I watch the Oscars on Sunday, I will keep my fingers crossed for Slumdog Millionaire.
"Slumdog Millionaire" is nominated for 10 Oscars, including best picture and best director for Boyle.
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But the studio has yet to finalize a script, now being written by "Slumdog Millionaire" writer Simon Beaufoy.
Danny Boyle, the British director behind films like Slumdog Millionaire, had produced his idea called Isles of Wonder.
Simon Beaufoy, the screenwriter for the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, said the accolade was "superb news" for his hometown.
The women she meets in the squalid streets where "Slumdog Millionaire" was filmed are often treated with contempt, she says.
As we just talked about, the film "Slumdog Millionaire" has raised awareness of the lives of poor kids in India.
The central character in "Slumdog Millionaire" is shown as a Bachchan fan.
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Boyle was named best director for Slumdog Millionaire, which also picked up prizes for Simon Beaufoy's screenplay and for AR Rahman's score.
It follows in the footsteps of The King's Speech and Slumdog Millionaire, which both went on to win Oscars for best picture.
You might remember a particularly gruesome scene in Slumdog Millionaire in which children are blinded so that they can become more profitable beggars.
But the slum, which was made famous after parts of the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" were filmed there, may not exist for much longer.
The editor of this opinions page, Tunku Varadarajan, noted as soon as the film emerged that Obama is verily a slumdog millionaire president.
It is the first theatre script for the writer, who was an Oscar nominee for The Full Monty and later a winner with Slumdog Millionaire.
It competes with Slumdog Millionaire in four categories, including best kiss.
Slumdog Millionaire's slum-dwellers represent approximately 60% of Mumbai's population who live in the shantytowns and slums - some would say they are the foundation of Mumbai city life.
Tessa Ross, who produced Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire and Shame starring Michael Fassbender, will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Cinema Award at the 10 February ceremony.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire") was doing an interview a few feet away Saturday, but people crowded past him for a glimpse of the cat.
Dev Patel, sex-obsessed Anwar in the first two series of E4's Skins, plays Jamal Malik in Slumdog Millionaire, a former street child from Mumbai in India.
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American audiences may want to explore Bollywood films after seeing "Slumdog Millionaire, " Pandya said, but it is unlikely that they will find another film like it.
Last year's winner Slumdog Millionaire went on to win the Oscar for best picture and the previous year, the Coen brother's No Country For Old Men did the same.
Unless there are any major upsets, Danny Boyle's " Slumdog Millionaire" -- the sleeper hit that has become a worldwide phenomenon -- will probably take away the golden statue.
Although mainstream Hollywood films have been shot digitally for about the last 12 years, the first digital film to win an Oscar for best cinematography was Slumdog Millionaire in 2009.
In 2011, she teamed up with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, Slumdog Millionaire composer AR Rahman, and Eurythmics star and record producer Dave Stewart in a new group called Super Heavy.
As John Cooper of Sundance points out, the only way for a studio to have a low-cost indie hit like Little Miss Sunshine or Slumdog Millionaire is to take a risk.
Slumdog Millionaire, a rags-to-riches story set in the slums on Mumbai, is up for best movie, male and female breakthrough performances, best kiss and best song - for AR Rahman's Jai Ho.
Organizers had said they expected a billion people worldwide to watch the opening ceremony -- which was created by Danny Boyle, best known for directing the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" -- on television.
Last year, voters for the Critics' Choice Awards plumped for Slumdog Millionaire as best film, paving the way for the British hit to sweep the Oscars, where it won eight awards on the night.
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