Finally it did happen, and Slumdog Millionaire did hog all the Oscar Awards. The movie grabbed awards for Best Motion Picture, Best Director (Danny Boyle), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Film Editing and also two awards for the Indian music director of the movie. A.R Rahman won two awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song (Jai Ho) and I must say I am pretty surprised myself. The music was not exceptionally great and there might have been more genuine candidates for the award.

Now before we feel consumed by Slumdog Millionaire, let us take a look at the other movies which managed to find some space in the awardees list. Best Actor award went to Sean Penn for his role in Milk. This movie was so hilarious with James Franco. Unfortunately, the movie won only one more award for Best Original Screenplay. Kate Winslet won the best actress award for her role in The Reader.

Late Heath Ledger won the much deserved Best Supporting Actor award for his role in The Dark Knight. Penelope Cruz won the best supporting actress for her role in the movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Japan won the best foreign film for Departures. The Best Animated Feature Film went out to WALL-E. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won the Best Art Direction Award. Best Sound Editing again went to The Dark Knight. The Duchess won the Best Costume Award and The Man on Wire won the Best Documentary Feature. Best Documentary for Short Subject was given to Smile Pinki.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button also won the Best Makeup Award. La Maison en Petits Cubes won the Best Animated Short Film. Best Live Action Short Film was won by Speilzeugland (Toyland). The Best Visual Effects were again given to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was given to Jerry Lewis who would get the Oscar Statuette. Also, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award was given to Pixar Animation co-founder Ed Catmull.

In spite of Slumdog Millionaire hogging all the awards, the function was still a gala affair with many good movies like Milk and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Dark Knight winning awards. What did not convince me were the awards given in the category of Best Original Score and Best Original Song. Perhaps there were other deserving candidates who were just ignored! Nevertheless, that is what I feel, but others are free to feel what they want to!

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