Movies | February 08, 2009 | 9 comments

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ wins BAFTA for best picture

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Rags-to-riches story “Slumdog Millionaire” continued its fairy-tale journey Sunday, winning seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards and sealing its place as favorite for the Oscars later this month.

Kate Winslet and Mickey Rourke also gained Oscar momentum with acting wins — Winslet for her role as a former Nazi concentration camp guard in “The Reader,” Rourke for his career-reviving performance as a washed-up athlete in “The Wrestler.” Heath Ledger won a posthumous supporting actor award for The Dark Knight.”

“It’s such a pleasure to be back here, out of the darkness,” said Rourke.

After her onstage emotional meltdown at the Golden Globes last month, Winslet was a model of composure, thanking her parents, sitting in the audience, “who I will not look at right now, otherwise I will burst into tears.”

“Slumdog,” Danny Boyle’s film about a Mumbai street boy’s rise from poverty to game-show triumph, went into the ceremony with 11 nominations and won prizes for best film, best director, original screenplay, music, cinematography, editing and sound.

The low-budget film, shot partly in Hindi, has gone from rank outsider to Academy Awards favorite since it won four trophies at the Golden Globe awards last month and became a box-office hit.

Its makers are still getting used to the change.

“I thought at one stage we were going straight to DVD,” said screenwriter Simon Beaufoy.

The film has caused controversy in India, where some have complained it shows the country in an unflattering light, and others have said its title insults the poor.

Boyle dedicated his award partly to the people of Mumbai, where it was shot — and also to people closer to home.

“The wiring in my dad’s house blew overnight, and it’s just a a big shout-out to everyone who helped him get the extension cable in so he could watch this on television,” Boyle said...
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9 comments // ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ wins BAFTA for best picture

  • straw2berry89
  • AnnieMole
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      AnnieMole  

    • I liked Mick Jagger's speech - never had him down as a comedian, but I liked his comment about Actors & musicians swapping roles & how "Sir Brad Pitt" was going to get the entire Pitt family in to sing the Sound of Music.

    • 3 years ago
  • ClareW
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      ClareW  

    • The BAFTAs were really good this year, I particularly enjoyed the banter between Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan. And Kate Winslet can cry as much as she likes in my book

    • 3 years ago
  • ksimpson
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      ksimpson  

    • Was a really fun BAFTAs... poor ole Angelina and Brad! She didn't look very impressed, must be a bit embarrassing sitting there and getting passed over again and again. Felt a bit sorry for her, which is kind of ridiculous considering she's a hugely successful actress! Kate did a good job keeping it together this time, with her very well prepared and carefully uttered speech, with a tribute to Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella. BAFTA's VT packages were terribly edited though with loads of repeated scenes and what were Jeff Park's ramblings like? Gilliam and Rourke's speeches were brilliant though and more than made up for other mishaps.

    • 3 years ago
  • richjm
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      richjm  

    • The BAFTA winners in full. I've not seen Man On Wire. Any good? Man On Fire was amazing, if that helps:

      Academy Fellowship —

      TERRY GILLIAM

      Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema — PINEWOOD STUDIOS / SHEPPERTON STUDIOS

      Best Film — SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - Christian Colson

      Outstanding British Film — MAN ON WIRE - Simon Chinn / James Marsh

      The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer for their First Feature Film — Director/Writer STEVE McQUEEN - Hunger

      Director — SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - Danny Boyle

      Original screenplay — IN BRUGES -Martin McDonagh

      Adapted Screenplay — SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - Simon Beaufoy

      Film Not In The English Language — I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG - Yves Marmion / Philippe Claudel

      Animated Film — WALL.E - Andrew Stanton

      Leading Actor — MICKEY ROURKE - The Wrestler

      Leading Actress — KATE WINSLET - The Reader

      Supporting Actor — HEATH LEDGER - The Dark Knight

      Supporting Actress — PENÉLOPE CRUZ - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

      Music — SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - A. R. Rahman

      Cinematography — SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - Anthony Dod Mantle

      Editing — SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE- Chris Dickens

    • 3 years ago
  • Mr_Costello
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