screeninglog.com - 12/24/2008
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The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Tuesday picked Danny Boyle's " Slumdog Millionaire " as the best film of 2008. The movie also won best director for Boyle and best adapted screenplay for Simon Beaufoy.
Mickey Rourke was named best actor for his performance in "The Wrestler," while Heath ...
New York Film Critics Online
awardsdaily.com 12/15/2008 —
For those of us with a New York state of mind, the New York Film Critics Online announced today too. (thanks to Katey)
Picture : “Slumdog Millionaire”
Director : Danny Boyle w/ Loveleen Tandan - “Slumdog ...
Boston Critics Can't Decide, Pick 'Wall-E' and 'Slumdog'
getthebigpicture.net 12/15/2008 — The Boston Society of Film Critics distributed the wealth this year, with only four movies earning multiple awards, and none winning more than two categories. At the top of the list are 'Wall-E' and 'Slumdog Millionaire,' which tied for Best Picture.
San Diego Film Critics Awards
awardsdaily.com 12/16/2008 —
(thanks to Rodrigo Junqueira Perticarari)
Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Runner-up: The Dark Knight
Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Animated Film: WALL-E
Best Director: Danny ...
Florida Film Critics Circle Winners
awardsdaily.com 12/19/2008 —
Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Actress: Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Supp. Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Supp. Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
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Slumdog Millionaire (Review) —
Cut Print Review
I guess you could say genre categorisation exists to give the prospective audience an inkling in to what sort of emotions they should expect the film to evoke. Yet British director Danny Boyle asks an elementary question; why? Why limit a film to one set of emotions when it has the potential to ...
Slumdog Millionaire —
Filmstalker
Danny Boyle made a huge leap with this film Slumdog Millionaire, heading to India and Bollywood and leaving behind Hollywood and whatever you could possibly think to call the British film industry. However it's already clear that his Slumdog Millionaire film is becoming a bit of a hit with the ...
Nikki Finke Comes out for In Bruges —
Awards Daily
Click here to view the embedded video.
Finke writes the following on Deadline Hollywood Daily:
On what planet does The Washington Post reside? The paper actually claims in a recent article about Oscar publicists that “because Barry Dale Joseph is working on Slumdog Millionaire , ...
Slumdog Millionaire —
notcoming.com
There may be no better setting for a modern-day fairy tale than India, with its blend of grit and exoticism, tradition and booming modernity, extreme wealth and grimmest poverty. And Slumdog Millionaire is a fairy tale, albeit one whose traditional themes (good brother, bad brother; fated ...
Oklahoma Critics Awards —
Awards Daily
Oklahoma Critics officially smarter than Ebert:
Best Film of 2008: Slumdog Millionaire dir. Danny Boyle
Top Ten Films (listed alphabetically):
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Slumdog ...
Box Office Power Rankings: December 19-21, 2008 —
Culture Snob
Earlier this month, I noted that no 10th-place-gross movie has ever won the Box Office Power Rankings title.
That's still true.
But Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire — which expanded to 589 sites this past weekend and landed in eighth place in overall box office — could have ...
Slumdog, a “Perfect Fairy Tale for Our Hard Times” —
Awards Daily
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Frank Rich, writing for the New York Times, talks of why Slumdog Millionaire is currently capturing the hearts of audiences — this is a similar theory to one I floated in my last column a while back, The Audacity of Hope.
Who Wants to Kick ...
Florida film critics honor 'Slumdog Millionaire' —
The Screening Log
The Florida Film Critics Circle named Danny Boyle's astonishing " Slumdog Millionaire " as the best film of 2008. The film earned two more awards: best director for Boyle and best screenplay by Simon Beaufoy.
Mickey Rourke won best actor for his performance in "The Wrestler," while Heath ...
Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Danny Boyle) —
The Stop Button
With Slumdog Millionaire , Danny Boyle hasn’t just finally made his grand romance (something he’s wanted to do since A Life Less Ordinary –this time without the “acting” stylings of Miss Cameron Diaz), or given cinema its first great mainstream romance in nine ...
Top 10 Reasons I Enjoyed Slumdog Millionaire —
Strange Culture
This post may/will contain spoilers - read at your own discretion I loved Slumdog Millionaire... when I watched with my wife, sister, and brother-in-law I think the final consensus was similar in that regard. It's the type of film where you are glued to the story and want to avoid leaving ...
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) —
For Cinephiles by a Cinefille
Slumdog Millionaire is this year's movie that has seemingly come out of no where to become a critical darling. It has been nominated for practically every award in existence and has been on ample Top 10 lists. So why the hype? Directed by Danny Boyle ( Trainspotting ), Slumdog Millionaire is ...
Sorry, SLUMDOG —
The Moviezzz Blog
Hit with a snowstorm on Friday, and another predicted for Sunday, that left me with the chance to only see one film this weekend. I went with SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, which finally opened. As a big fan of both Danny Boyle and Bollywood, I was looking forward to seeing this film, which has gotten ...
Detroit Film Critics Winners —
Awards Daily
Best film
* Slumdog Millionaire
Best director
* Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
Best actor
* Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler
Best actress
* Kate Winslet for Revolutionary Road
Best supporting actor
* Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
Best supporting actress
* Marisa ...
Slumdog Millionaire leads London critics' nominations —
Film | guardian.co.uk
Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle's much-garlanded tale of a impoverished Mumbai teenager who finds success on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? is leading the pack at the London Film Critics' Circle awards with six nominations. The film, which has been picking up Oscars heat ...
Wrestling With Florida —
Film Experience Blog
As we discovered earlier today with the SAG nominations , the Oscars are all but over, a month before the nominations are announced: Slumdog Millionaire will win. Barring Benjamin Button becoming a huge hit (iffy) with the public when it opens @ Christmas, Slumdog just has too large a ...
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) —
Reel Suave
How did Jamal Malik win 20 million rupees?
a. He Cheated
b. He got Lucky
c. He knew the anwers
An adrenalin rush of inspiring, exhilarating entertainment, Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is a feel- good fairy tale straight from the slums of Bombay/Mumbai. The ...
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics —
Awards Daily
(Thanks to Todd Jorgenson)
Top Ten Films of 2008
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
MILK
THE DARK KNIGHT
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE WRESTLER
THE VISITOR
FROST/NIXON
DOUBT
WALL-E
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Best Film: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Best Director: Danny Boyle, SLUMDOG ...