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LOS ANGELES: "Slumdog Millionaire" and its director, Danny Boyle, with their modern-day fairy tale about hope and hard times in the slums of Mumbai, pushed aside big-studio contenders to sweep top honors at the 81st annual Academy Awards on Sunday.
LOS ANGELES: "Slumdog Millionaire" and its director, Danny Boyle, with their modern-day fairy tale about hope and hard times in the slums of Mumbai, pushed aside big-studio contenders to sweep top honors at the 81st annual Academy Awards on Sunday.
"You dwarf even the sky," Boyle said in a tribute to the people of Mumbai, who figured by the thousands in his film. He spoke while accepting the best director award, only minutes before "Slumdog Millionaire" was named best picture, helping give the evening a distinctly international tilt.
Boyle, 52, has been known for putting an inspirational twist on often dark and sophisticated movies that have included "Trainspotting," about heroin addiction, and "Sunshine," about sacrifice on a mission to reignite the sun.
The many prizes for "Slumdog Millionaire" — whose writer, Simon Beaufoy, was honored for best adapted screenplay, among others prizes for the film — completed the film's steady march past competitors like "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" from Paramount Pictures and "Frost/Nixon" from Universal Pictures.
The best picture award was a first for Fox Searchlight, which distributed "Slumdog Millionaire" in the United States. In the past, the studio appeared to narrowly miss the big prize with a series of comic best picture nominees that included "Little Miss Sunshine," "Sideways" and "The Full Monty."
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