February 16, 2009
Categories: World
HOLLYWOOD: The one-week countdown to the Oscars got underway yesterday with rags-to-riches love story Slumdog Millionaire the runaway favourite to dominate the movie industry’s biggest night of the year.
Director Danny Boyle’s low-budget film set in Mumbai has turned Hollywood’s awards season into a virtual procession this year, sweeping all before it on a march towards the Feb 22 Academy Awards, where it has 10 nods.
The US$15-million (RM54.3 million) film got another accolade last weekend when it won best picture at the British Academy Film Awards (Baftas), following wins at the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, Directors Guild and Producers Guild Awards.
The biggest threat to Slumdog Millionaire is expected to come from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, filmmaker David Fincher’s big-budget period romance starring Brad Pitt about a man who ages in reverse.
Benjamin Button heads into the Oscars with 13 nominations in several categories including best picture and best director while the film’s leading man Pitt also earned a best actor nod. Other best picture nominees include political thriller Frost/ Nixon, The Reader and Milk.
“I don’t think Slumdog can be beat,” said Tom O’Neil, a pundit with the Los Angeles Times’s awards season blog theenvelope.com.
“It seems to be on an inevitable trajectory. And it’s great to see a movie that Hollywood is rapturously in love with.” — AFP
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