"Slumdog Millionaire" swept Britain's BAFTA film awards (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) on Sunday winning best film,director and five other categories, giving it another boost ahead of the Oscars later this month.
“Slumdog Millionaire”, a British picture about a young man from the slums of Mumbai who seeks to rise from rags to riches by winning a TV game show, triumphed at the Golden Globes last month with four honours including best drama.
Adding yet another feather in his cap, music maestro Allah Rakha Rahman bagged the BAFTA award in the best music score category for "Slumdog Millionaire".
After becoming the first Indian to win the Golden Globe and getting a triple Oscar nomination in two categories for the same movie, Rahman, 43, is the first Indian musician to win the BAFTA award.
Apart from Rahman, Resul Pookutty was the other Indian to win a BAFTA award for best sound editing for “Slumdog Millionaire”
Rahman's composition 'Jai Ho' for British director Danny Boyle's “Slumdog Millionaire”, earned him the Critics Choice Award for Best Composer in 2008 and the Golden Globe in the category of Best Original Score.
Rahman, born in Chennai on January 6, 1966, was nominated in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song categories for two of his compositions - 'Jai Ho' and 'O Saya' at the Oscar. Simon Beaufoy won the best adapted screenplay award for “Slumdog Millionaire” and Anthony Dod Mantle won the best cinematography award for the same movie.
"Slumdog Millionaire" is based on India's diplomat-turned author Vikas Swarup's novel. The film had received 11 nominations at the BAFTA awards.
“Slumdog Millionaire” bagged the awards for best film, best director (Danny Boyle), best adapted screenplay (Simon Beaufoy), best music (A R Rahman), best cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle), best editing (Chris Dickens) and best sound (Resul Pookutty, Glen Freemantle, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp).
“Slumdog Millionaire” director Danny Boyle gave a restrained acceptance speech, but earlier defended his film on the red carpet against criticism in India to the movie's name, which some slum dwellers find offensive.
He said the children in the film had been paid well and that the makers of the movie went to great lengths to make sure they would be well cared for after the film was forgotten.
"We also put in place an educational plan for the children which we are sticking to and we will be there for them long after the fuss has died down," Boyle said ahead of the awards.
Kate Winslet, a double Golden Globe winner, won the leading actress award for her role as a former concentration camp guard in "The Reader".
"I want to thank my mum and dad, who I won't look at otherwise I will burst into tears," she said at London's Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
Mickey Rourke gave an expletive-filled acceptance speech while picking up his award for leading actor for his portrayal of a lonely, washed-up professional athlete in "The Wrestler" trying to make his sporting comeback in a role that parallels the actors own troubled life.
The red carpet was teeming with stars on a rainy London evening. Delighted fans bayed for autographs while the paparrazi jostled for snaps of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Winslet, Rourke, Robert Downey Jr, Sharon Stone, Goldie Hawn and a host of other Hollywood and British film stars.
The awards ceremony was hosted by controversial presenter Jonathan Ross, who was recently suspended without pay from the BBC for his participation in obscene prank calls made to actor Andrew Sachs. Ross did not disappoint fans of his off-the-cuff humour, making fun of his own speech impediment and regaling the audience with a raft of jokes pegged to the films up for awards.
“Slumdog Millionaire”, a British picture about a young man from the slums of Mumbai who seeks to rise from rags to riches by winning a TV game show, triumphed at the Golden Globes last month with four honours including best drama.
Adding yet another feather in his cap, music maestro Allah Rakha Rahman bagged the BAFTA award in the best music score category for "Slumdog Millionaire".
After becoming the first Indian to win the Golden Globe and getting a triple Oscar nomination in two categories for the same movie, Rahman, 43, is the first Indian musician to win the BAFTA award.
Apart from Rahman, Resul Pookutty was the other Indian to win a BAFTA award for best sound editing for “Slumdog Millionaire”
Rahman's composition 'Jai Ho' for British director Danny Boyle's “Slumdog Millionaire”, earned him the Critics Choice Award for Best Composer in 2008 and the Golden Globe in the category of Best Original Score.
Rahman, born in Chennai on January 6, 1966, was nominated in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song categories for two of his compositions - 'Jai Ho' and 'O Saya' at the Oscar. Simon Beaufoy won the best adapted screenplay award for “Slumdog Millionaire” and Anthony Dod Mantle won the best cinematography award for the same movie.
"Slumdog Millionaire" is based on India's diplomat-turned author Vikas Swarup's novel. The film had received 11 nominations at the BAFTA awards.
“Slumdog Millionaire” bagged the awards for best film, best director (Danny Boyle), best adapted screenplay (Simon Beaufoy), best music (A R Rahman), best cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle), best editing (Chris Dickens) and best sound (Resul Pookutty, Glen Freemantle, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp).
“Slumdog Millionaire” director Danny Boyle gave a restrained acceptance speech, but earlier defended his film on the red carpet against criticism in India to the movie's name, which some slum dwellers find offensive.
He said the children in the film had been paid well and that the makers of the movie went to great lengths to make sure they would be well cared for after the film was forgotten.
"We also put in place an educational plan for the children which we are sticking to and we will be there for them long after the fuss has died down," Boyle said ahead of the awards.
Kate Winslet, a double Golden Globe winner, won the leading actress award for her role as a former concentration camp guard in "The Reader".
"I want to thank my mum and dad, who I won't look at otherwise I will burst into tears," she said at London's Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
Mickey Rourke gave an expletive-filled acceptance speech while picking up his award for leading actor for his portrayal of a lonely, washed-up professional athlete in "The Wrestler" trying to make his sporting comeback in a role that parallels the actors own troubled life.
The red carpet was teeming with stars on a rainy London evening. Delighted fans bayed for autographs while the paparrazi jostled for snaps of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Winslet, Rourke, Robert Downey Jr, Sharon Stone, Goldie Hawn and a host of other Hollywood and British film stars.
The awards ceremony was hosted by controversial presenter Jonathan Ross, who was recently suspended without pay from the BBC for his participation in obscene prank calls made to actor Andrew Sachs. Ross did not disappoint fans of his off-the-cuff humour, making fun of his own speech impediment and regaling the audience with a raft of jokes pegged to the films up for awards.
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