Slumdog Millionaire Outwits The Dark Knight at Oscars 2009

ENTERTAINMENT MONDAY: The presentation seems boring to me and without much zest but nevertheless the 81st Annual Academy Awards did not fail to give the enthusiasm and surprise that it gives every year. Heath Ledger's triumph as the Best Supporting Actor for his role in Batman: The Dark Knight was heartwarming and rekindles the brilliance and greatness of an actor like him. His role in Brokerback Mountain was also worth mentioning but it was in being The Joker that he became one of Hollywood's greatest actors. The biggest winner of the night was the Warner Bro's outcast film, Slumdog Millionaire which took home 8 awards including Best Picture and Best Director. It seems that this time the fil with a budget of only 14 Million Dollars outwits the highly popular The Dark Knight and other films.

Slumdog Millionaire was a movie which almost never took off until Fox Searchlight took it and decided to release the film. From there on the movie captivated audience around the world and became a great hit.

It is also a movie which is receiving a high level of protest from India who sees the title of the film as an insult to India. Arindam Chaudhuri on his >blog states, "'Slumdog’ is just every scrap of dirt picked up from every corner and piled up together to try and hit back at the growing might of India. And the awards almost seem like a sadistic effort to show the world — look we knew that this was India, and these are the slumdogs we are outsourcing our jobs to," Chaudhuri is a management consultant and film producer.

Here is the list of winners for Oscars 2009

Best Motion Picture of the Year
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Sean Penn
MILK

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Kate Winslet
THE READER

Achievement in Directing
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Departures

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Achievement in Film Editing
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Achievement in Sound Mixing
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Achievement in Sound Editing
THE DARK KNIGHT

Achievement in Visual Effects
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

Best Documentary Short Subject
SMILE PINKI

Best Documentary Feature
MAN ON WIRE

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Heath Ledger
THE DARK KNIGHT

Best Live Action Short Film
SPIELZEUGLAND (TOYLAND)

Achievement in Cinematography
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Achievement in Makeup
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

Achievement in Costume Design
THE DUCHESS

Achievement in Art Direction
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

Best Animated Short Film
La Maison en Petits Cubes

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
WALL-E

Adapted Screenplay
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Original Screenplay
MILK MILK

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Penelope Cruz
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA

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