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34 Awards and No Oscar Nominations — How One of the Year's Most Decorated Films Got Shut Out of the Category It Could Have Won

During the 81st Academy Awards, news channels erroneously declared the Best Picture win for SlumdogMillionaire “a victory for India," when a predominantly Indian cast and crew took the stage with its ...
Yahoo

Danny Boyle says he 'wouldn’t even contemplate' making “Slumdog Millionaire” today because of its 'cultural appropriation'

Seventeen years ago, Slumdog Millionaire swept the 81st Academy Awards, walking away with eight of the 10 Oscars it was nominated for. But Danny Boyle, who took home the 2009 Academy Award for Best ...
The Daily Gazette

Local writer loses bid for Academy Award

Writer Courtney Hunt, an Oscar nominee for best original screenplay for her work on "Frozen River," arrives for the 81st Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. ...
Houston Press

As Oscar Nominations Loom, The Five Worst Best (Recent) Pictures

The paradox of the Oscars is that while nobody outside of the incestuous parallel reality of Hollywood really cares about them, we still find ourselves drawn to the spectacle like illiterates to a ...

Helen Mirren will receive the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille award

Helen Mirren's latest role is Golden Globe lifetime achievement honoree. The Golden Globes said Wednesday the 80-year-old ...