Richard Attenborough Film Awards - Slumdog bags 4 Prizes

Oscar Nominated a Danny Boyle's film bagged 4 Prizes at Richard Attenborough Film Awards. The Movie was named as the "Film of Year", Best Director for Danny Boyle and a 18year old actor Dev Patel won the "Rising Star" award.

Slumdog's fame Patel, who previously acted in a TV series 'Skins' for E4, also won the British Breakthrough Star prize, in a new People's Choice award, E!Online reported.

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Slumdog Nominated for Oscar Awards:

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, had bagged 10 Oscar Nominations. A R Rahman the Music Mastero had bagged tripple nominations for Best Original Score category and twice in the Best Original Song section. Rahman got the awards for the song “Jai Ho” and "O Saya”.

Below are the Nominations of Oscar Awards for Slumdog:
Best Motion Picture category, Best Director — Danny Boyle and Best Adapted Screenplay — Simon Beaufoy. Other nominations include Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing.

Other Films which are nominated for Oscar Awards are:
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Frost/Nixon," "Milk," and "The Reader"

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Slumdog bagged 5 Awards, Critics Choice Awards 2009

Slumdog Millionaire,a film which was made on a small budget on Novel based on Q & A by Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup bagged the Prestigious award Broadcast Film Critics Association's 14th annual Critics Choice Awards 2009.

In this Award Music Mastero A R Rahman got Best Composer Award, Best Film, Best Director for Danny Boyle, Best Writer for Simon Beaufoy and Best Young Actor for Dev Patel, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Broadcast Film Critics Association's 14th annual Critics Choice Awards (BFCA), which took place at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium last night, is the largest film critics organisation, with more than 200 members in the US and Canada

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Black Reel Award for "Slumdog Millionaire"

This Years, 2008 Black Reel Awards in America released its awards for "Cadillac Records", "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Secret Life Of Bees"

Cadillac Records, a story of legendary blues label Chess - was named Best Film, Where as Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel was named Best Actor and Best Breakthrough Performance and Queen Latifah for the Best Actress crown for The Secret Life of Bees.

Best Film - Cadillac Records

Best Ensemble - Cadillac Records

Best Soundtrack - Slumdog Millionaire

Music for "Slumdog Millionaire" was composed by AR RAHMAN

Slumdog is in the running for 4 Golden Globe Nomination

A Golden Globe which is the prestigios award. Now Indian Music director, who is reputed all over the world, A.R. Rahman has won the prestigious Golden

Globe Nomination for his Best Original Score for this compostion in British Filmmaker Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire", which narriates the story about a street boy of mumbai.

Get the nomination Rahman Said ""It is good to hear about all these nominations, " and added to this also said "I always feel that I am just one of the elements and then combining it with other elements it becomes something else"

"Slumdog Millionaire" which is the another biggest western film score for A R Rahman after Shekhar Kapoor's ‘The Golden Age'.

Other than Background Score Slumdog has also won for other nominations - Best Film , Best Director for Boyle and Best Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy.

Best Actress nominations were Kate Winslet for ‘Revolutionary Road' and Angelina Jolie as a distraught mother in ‘The Changeling'.

"The Strange Case of Benjamin Button", starring Brad Pitt, and "Frost/Nixon" each garnered five Golden Globe nominations.

Pitt got a Best Actor nomination for "The Strange Case". Others in the fray were Leonardo DiCaprio for "Revolutionary Road", as well as Sean Penn as the title character in "Milk".