Tag Archives : Oscar Awards

Rubina Ali, the 9-year old actress who played the young Latika in Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, will soon publish her autobiography under UK’s Transworld Publishers and Random House Children’s Books. Both publishing houses are divisions of Random House Group Ltd. Her book will detail her impoverished childhood, as well as her recently [...]

The Reader is the haunting story of a former Nazi death camp guard. Kate Winslet plays the disturbing role, and did she do a good job or did she do a good job! Her awesome performance won her the Oscar Award for the Best Actress category. The story revolves around her penchant for reading, the guilt of being a Nazi death camp guard, and the passionate [...]

Sean Penn won the Best Actor award for his role in Milk and why not! Sean Penn is one of the most respected and talented actors around and James Franco’s role in Milk is quite great too! In fact, it was a surprise win for Sean Penn and most expected Brad Pitt to win. It is pleasing to see Sean win the award for Brad has got more attention than [...]

Perhaps it was only because Heath Ledger won the posthumous Best Supporting Actor award, that I can still feel a sense of respect for the Oscar Awards. The Academy Awards have been shadowed by unnecessary awards given certain movies while good movies were ignored. Heath Ledger’s movie ‘Brokeback Mountain’ won a number of academy awards [...]

Slumdog Millionaire, the Indian rag-to-riches story bagged 8 Oscars, at the 81st Annual Academy Award. It won Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Music, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Background Score, Best Cinematography and Best Adapted Screenplay. Although Slumdog had Oscar written all over it, Danny Boyle, the director of this film was [...]

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 [...]

The biggest question that is hanging on everyone’s head is whether Slumdog Millionaire will win it at the Oscars or not. The music director of the movie Rahman feels if the movie wins at the Oscars, it will lead to ‘bigger things‘. In my opinion, it surely shall lead to bigger things with respect to Indian names abroad. Some people [...]