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Slumdog sweeps Oscars

Slumdog cast

Low-budget, fan favourite completes unlikely rise from Toronto Film Festival to the pinnacle of Hollywood.

Stephanie Nolen

Now that Oscar loves Slumdog, so does India

Initially critical, Indians now hail Slumdog Millionaire's success as a win for the whole country


The Oscars

U.S. gay community welcomes Penn victory

Advocates hope awards fuel support for same-sex marriage battle in California


Oscar viewership up, Oscar numbers down

Preliminary U.S. ratings show Oscar numbers up six per cent over last year, but the audience is still at near-record lows


Oscar's hits & misses

The 'Super Bowl for women' was all about taking risks this year.


Galas still glam, but guest lists are shorter


Amy Verner

Recession can't take sparkle out of red carpet

Well, the dresses certainly weren't downscaled this year.


Globe Panel

Oscar puts on his dancing shoes

Hugh Jackman – Mr. Wolverine himself – at the helm of a ‘tap your troubles away' Academy Awards? It's enough to give our esteemed panel the heebie-jeebies


Millionaire's star

Freida Pinto has one film credit to her name, but what a credit. The Slumdog star gives an interview as she prepares for her royal walk down the red carpet


A star is born

A pink-frock search for a red-letter day

In a storyline similar to that of Slumdog Millionaire, the film's young actress is heading from Mumbai slum to Los Angeles glitter


From the margins to the mainstream

Gus Van Sant's atmospheric films are always about outsiders – now the outsider himself is flirting with Oscar


Elizabeth Renzetti

Still a master of the softly-softly skewering

Interviewer David Frost is nothing if not a showman


Hollywood health report

Numbers are strong on the surface, but they are masking some worrisome trends


SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Why is the film so popular? It's the zeitgeist, stupid

One of the top officials of the Toronto International Film Festival discusses the hype surrounding Oscar contender Slumdog Millionaire


Israeli Oscar hopeful got a Canadian boost

Two takers for Waltz with Bashir emerged at Toronto's Hot Docs fest in 2005

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Golden Globes 

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Complete list from the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards

Underdog Slumdog wins big

Danny Boyle film takes best drama at Golden Globes while supporting-actor prize awarded posthumously to Heath Ledger


British Film Awards 

‘Slumdog Millionaire' wins top British awards

Underdog drama takes seven prizes including best picture at BAFTAs


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And the meaning of Best Picture is . . .

Film critic Liam Laceytakes a tongue-in-cheek attempt at discerning the real meaning of this year's nominees

Benjamin Button leads all movies with 13 Oscar nominations

Heath Ledger earns posthumous nomination on the one-year anniversary of his death; Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, Frost/Nixon up for Best Picture along with Benjamin Button

An oddsmaker's guide to Oscar gold

As Hollywood's awards season kicked off with the Golden Globes, Liam Lacey gazes into every crystal ball he can find

Homegrown backlash dogs Oscar front-runner

Slumdog Millionaire gets mixed reaction in India, where some say it's exploitive

What was the academy thinking?

Liam Lacey reveals who got robbed, snubbed and given the cold shoulder

Will bleak Oscar films prove box office poison?

The economy may put people in the mood for something lighter

The Wrestler: A has-been's life makes for a glorious comeback

Mickey Rourke has created a character that is both mythically familiar and original

Big studios fret as Oscar season approaches

Looking to blame someone, Hollywood? Look into the mirror

Sliced, diced, no mincing

Johanna Schneller on how the Academy Award nominations this year are a real mash-up

Oscars org seeks to block ticket sales

Academy files lawsuit against organization it claims is selling luxury ticket packages


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