{"id":8658,"date":"2009-01-22T17:54:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T17:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/01\/22\/oscar-joy-for-slumdog-millionaire\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T17:54:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T17:54:44","slug":"oscar-joy-for-slumdog-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/22\/oscar-joy-for-slumdog-millionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar joy for Slumdog Millionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Film receives 10 nominations<\/h3>\n<div><strong>THERE was more joy for the team behind hit-UK film Slumdog Millionaire after it was nominated for 10 Academy Awards today.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Danny Boyle\u2019s captivating screen drama about a young orphan\u2019s amazing run on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire has already amassed a number of awards, including four<strong> <\/strong>Golden Globes.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Nominations for next month\u2019s Oscars were announced today with Brad Pitt\u2019s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leading the race with 13 nominations. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Slumdog Millionaire was nominated in 10 categories including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The film was nominated in all four categories at the Golden Globes, eventually walking away with all four awards.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Writer Simon Beaufoy said he was \u201cfantastically happy and honoured\u201d with the nominations. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Secretly and sometimes not so secretly, this is the nomination that floats in every screenwriter&#8217;s dreams. I am fantastically happy and honoured- not just for myself but for Vikas Swarup&#8217;s wonderful novel without which I would have never started my journey to the world&#8217;s Maximum City, Mumbai,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Brit-actor Dev Patel was also in joyous mood. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He said: \u201c<span>It\u2019s just amazing. For Slumdog Millionaire to be included in the nominations for the Oscars is a huge honour. When we first began working on the film I don\u2019t think any of us ever imagined that we might end up attending the Oscars ceremony as a result. I\u2019m just so proud to be a part of this project and I have been overwhelmed by the positive reaction to the film.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Before the Slumdog team fly out to America to enjoy the Oscar experience, they have the small matter of finding out if they are triumphant at the BAFTA Awards on 9 February where they have been nominated for 11 awards. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film receives 10 nominations THERE was more joy for the team behind hit-UK film Slumdog Millionaire after it was nominated for 10 Academy Awards today.\u00a0 &#13; Danny Boyle\u2019s captivating screen drama about a young orphan\u2019s amazing run on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire has already amassed a number of awards, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}