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Onyxmeth on 22 January 2009

Here's Slumdog's awards, also from Wiki. Please tell me you see the difference in the amount of noms and wins for Slumdog in comparison to Benjamin Button.

Top ten lists

The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008.[1]

2009

2009 Academy Awards

  • Nominated:Best Picture
  • Nominated:Best Director
  • Nominated:Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Nominated:Best Cinematography
  • Nominated:Best Film Editing
  • Nominated:Best Original Score
  • Nominated:Best Original Song (2 nominations)
  • Nominated:Best Sound Editing
  • Nominated:Best Sound Mixing

2009 British Academy of Film and Television Arts

2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association The Critics' Choice Award

  • Won: Best Picture
  • Won: Best Director – Danny Boyle
  • Won: Best Writer – Simon Beaufoy
  • Won: Best Young Actor/Actress (under 21) – Dev Patel
  • Won: Best Composer - A.R. Rahman
  • Nominated: Best Song – "Jai ho" performed by Sukhwinder Singh, written by Gulzar

2009 Chicago Film Critics Association

2009 Directors Guild of America

2009 Golden Globe Awards[2]

2009 Producers Guild of America Awards

  • Nominated: Best Theatrical Picture

2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards

  • Nominated: Best Ensemble
  • Nominated: Best Supporting Actor - Dev Patel

[edit] 2008

In addition to the awards below, in December of 2008 the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures named Slumdog Millionaire as the best film of 2008. It also named Patel's performance as the Best Breakthrough by an actor, and Beaufoy's script the Best Adapted Screenplay (shared with Eric Roth for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).[3].

2008 Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards

  • Won: Best Film
  • Won: Best Director – Danny Boyle
  • Won: Unforgettable Moment Award
  • Won: Cultural Crossover Award
  • Nominated: Best Adapted Screenplay – Simon Beaufoy

2008 Black Reel Awards

2008 American Society of Cinematographers Awards

  • Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases - Anthony Dod Mantle

2008 Austin Film Festival

2008 Boston Society of Film Critics Award

2008 British Independent Film Awards

  • Won: Best British Independent Film
  • Won: Best Director – Danny Boyle
  • Won: Most Promising Newcomer – Dev Patel
  • Nominated: Best Screenplay – Simon Beaufoy
  • Nominated: Best Technical Achievement (cinematography – Anthony Dod Mantle)
  • Nominated: Most Promising Newcomer – Ayush Mahesh Khedekar

2008 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards

2008 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards

2008 Florida Film Critics Circle Awards

2008 Houston Film Critics Society Awards

  • Won: Best Director – Danny Boyle
  • Won: Best Adapted Screenplay – Simon Beaufoy
  • Runner-up: Best Cinematography – Anthony Dod Mantle
  • Runner-up: Best Original Score - A.R. Rahman
  • Runner-up: Best Original Song - "Jai ho" performed by Sukhwinder Singh, written by Gulzar

2008 London Film Critics' Circle

  • Nominated: The Attenborough Award: British Film Of The Year
  • Nominated: Best Director Of The Year – Danny Boyle
  • Nominated: Best British Director Of The Year – Danny Boyle
  • Nominated: Best British Actor Of The Year - Dev Patel
  • Nominated: Best Screenwriter Of The Year – Simon Beaufoy
  • Nominated: The NSPCC Award: Young British Performer Of The Year - Dev Patel

2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

2008 National Board of Review Awards

  • Won: Best Film
  • Won: Best Breakthrough Performance, Male – Dev Patel
  • Won: Best Screenplay – Simon Beaufoy

2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards

2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

2008 New York Film Critics Online

2008 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle

2008 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

2008 San Diego Film Critics Society Award

2008 Satellite Awards International Press Academy

  • Won: Best Motion Picture - Drama
  • Won: Best Director – Danny Boyle
  • Won: Best Original Score - A.R. Rahman
  • Nominated: Best Adapted Screenplay – Simon Beaufoy
  • Nominated: Best Original Song - "Jai ho" performed by Sukhwinder Singh, written by Gulzar
  • Nominated: Best Film Editing - Chris Dickens

2008 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards

2008 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards

  • Won: Best Director – Danny Boyle
  • Won: Best Foreign Language Film
  • Nominated: Best Picture
  • Nominated: Most Original, Creative or Innovative Film
  • Nominated: Best Adapted Screenplay – Simon Beaufoy
  • Nominated: Best Cinematography – Anthony Dod Mantle

2008 Toronto International Film Festival

2008 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Nominated: Best Picture
  • Nominated: Best Director – Danny Boyle

2008 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association

2008 Writers Guild of America Awards



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HappySqurriel on 22 January 2009

I don't really care about awards, but Slumdog Millionaire is (probably) the best movie I have seen in a decade ...

I've seen it a couple of times already and the thing that impressed me the most on the second viewing was that there was 3 parts each played by 3 seperate actors (including very young children) and all 9 parts were really well executed to give a very consistent sense of the character.



akuma587 on 22 January 2009

Alright, I'm convinced it has more critical mass. I still personally don't think its the kind of movie the Academy prefers and personally don't think it is as good of a film as Benjamin Button.

Things are leaning Slumdog's way. But I think there are so many good films this year that even one of the film's besides Benjamin Button could nab it. It will be an interesting year to say the least.

Frankly, I don't think Slumdog is the best or even necessarily the second best film of the year. The movie kind of reminds me of everyone's fascination with City of God (though I do like Slumdog more than I liked City of God.  I make the comparison as well because the movies are very similar to me). The movie was ambitious and it was very innovative, but I just never warmed up to it. I went in with a totally open mind as well, so I had no prejudice to the movie and wanted to see it after I heard it won a Golden Globe for Best Picture.

I did like the cinematography quite a bit, and the shaky cam was great even though it normally bothers me. But something about the movie was overly melodramatic to me. It just didn't move me anywhere near as much as Benjamin Button did or even some of the other films that came out this year. Not to mention I couldn't stand the main character. I liked the brother's character a lot better.

I certainly won't be bothered if it wins Best Picture as it is better than other films that have wrongfully won it in the past, but I just can't bring myself to change my prediction since I honestly don't believe it was the best film that came out this year.



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Onyxmeth on 22 January 2009
akuma587 said:

Alright, I'm convinced it has more critical mass. I still personally don't think its the kind of movie the Academy prefers and personally don't think it is as good of a film as Benjamin Button.

Things are leaning Slumdog's way. But I think there are so many good films this year that even one of the film's besides Benjamin Button could nab it. It will be an interesting year to say the least.

Frankly, I don't think Slumdog is the best or even necessarily the second best film of the year. The movie kind of reminds me of everyone's fascination with City of God (though I do like Slumdog more than I liked City of God.  I make the comparison as well because the movies are very similar to me). The movie was ambitious and it was very innovative, but I just never warmed up to it. I went in with a totally open mind as well, so I had no prejudice to the movie and wanted to see it after I heard it won a Golden Globe for Best Picture.

I did like the cinematography quite a bit, and the shaky cam was great even though it normally bothers me. But something about the movie was overly melodramatic to me. It just didn't move me anywhere near as much as Benjamin Button did or even some of the other films that came out this year. Not to mention I couldn't stand the main character. I liked the brother's character a lot better.

I certainly won't be bothered if it wins Best Picture as it is better than other films that have wrongfully won it in the past, but I just can't bring myself to change my prediction since I honestly don't believe it was the best film that came out this year.

Nah that's cool. I'm not asking for you to change your picks. I just wanted you to realize you're actually rooting for the underdog, not the frontrunner. A lot of these people that voted it for their awards may also be Academy voters, and I feel that's why Slumdog has got this. I know it's not the usual Academy movie, but neither were a lot of winners if you see what they were up against that was more Academy cliche. Who would have ever thought LOTR was going to get as recognized as it did three years in a row and end up tying for the record of most Academy wins? Who would have thought the Academy would vote in Three Six Mafia and Eminem as music Award winners? Sometimes the Academy goes beyond their cliches and give something else a shot. Seriously who would have ever thought a Apatow-esque movie like Juno would get a Best Picture nom before it started to scoop up other nominations?

 



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HappySqurriel on 22 January 2009
akuma587 said:

Alright, I'm convinced it has more critical mass. I still personally don't think its the kind of movie the Academy prefers and personally don't think it is as good of a film as Benjamin Button.

Things are leaning Slumdog's way. But I think there are so many good films this year that even one of the film's besides Benjamin Button could nab it. It will be an interesting year to say the least.

Frankly, I don't think Slumdog is the best or even necessarily the second best film of the year. The movie kind of reminds me of everyone's fascination with City of God (though I do like Slumdog more than I liked City of God. I make the comparison as well because the movies are very similar to me). The movie was ambitious and it was very innovative, but I just never warmed up to it. I went in with a totally open mind as well, so I had no prejudice to the movie and wanted to see it after I heard it won a Golden Globe for Best Picture.

I did like the cinematography quite a bit, and the shaky cam was great even though it normally bothers me. But something about the movie was overly melodramatic to me. It just didn't move me anywhere near as much as Benjamin Button did or even some of the other films that came out this year. Not to mention I couldn't stand the main character. I liked the brother's character a lot better.

I certainly won't be bothered if it wins Best Picture as it is better than other films that have wrongfully won it in the past, but I just can't bring myself to change my prediction since I honestly don't believe it was the best film that came out this year.

 

That's where a lot of movies fall apart for me ...

The more I know about a movie the less enjoyable it is, and for this reason I don't watch trailers and I avoid all comercials. Whenever you approach an "Award winning movie" it has that added baggage and you can never fairly evaluate the movie ... Some people I have met will hype up anything that won awards, while I personally judge them much harder.

 



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Coca-Cola on 23 February 2009

so, who were the big winners?
Slumdog Millionaire! Congrats. Good movie.
Also, to Sean Penn - Oscars love this guy. Good speech btw.
Too bad Original Song didn't go to Wall-E.



mrstickball on 23 February 2009

A few notes about the Slumdog/Button fight:

Slumdog Millionare Gross Receipts: $98m USD (as of the end of this weekend)
Benjamin Button Gross Receipts: $124m USD (as of the end of this weekend)

Slumdog Budget: $15m
Benjamin Button Budget: $150m

Hilarious that a movie that had a shoestring budget is going toe to toe with Benny B. And with Slumdog's TC only increasing, it may surpass Benny B in the US, too.



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Coca-Cola on 23 February 2009
mrstickball said:
A few notes about the Slumdog/Button fight:

Slumdog Millionare Gross Receipts: $98m USD (as of the end of this weekend)
Benjamin Button Gross Receipts: $124m USD (as of the end of this weekend)

Slumdog Budget: $15m
Benjamin Button Budget: $150m

Hilarious that a movie that had a shoestring budget is going toe to toe with Benny B. And with Slumdog's TC only increasing, it may surpass Benny B in the US, too.

Def. will.

 



Coca-Cola on 23 February 2009

Still bummed that Gran Torino didn't get nominated for anything. Slumdog and Gran Torino were my favorites



akuma587 on 23 February 2009

Milk was the surprise winner of the night. Slumdog cleaned house.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson