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Slumdog nominated for best film at Golden Globes
Friday, December 12, 2008 01:00 IST
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BEVERLY HILLS (California): Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s film about a
Mumbai slum youth who wins the popular TV game show Kaun Banega Crorepati, has
been nominated for best picture at next month’s Golden Globe Awards.
Hollywood’s
annual awards season got underway on Thursday with the unveiling of
nominees for the Globes. A slew of A-list talent was among the nominees
named at an early morning ceremony in Beverly Hills, with Brad Pitt,
Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, and Angelina Jolie all
picking up nods.
Slumdog Millionaire, which stars Anil
Kapoor as the game show host, Irrfan Khan, and newcomers Dev Patel and
Freida Pinto, faces strong competition from The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button, Frost/Nixon, The Reader, and Revolutionary Road.
The Globes, which take place on January 11, are seen as an important
staging post ahead of the Academy Awards, offering clues to which films
and stars will be successful at the Oscars. In the past four years the
Globes have failed to accurately predict the best picture winner at the
Academy Awards, but overall some 67% of Oscars best picture winners had
first received a Golden Globe.
No one film emerged as the overwhelming favourite, with Benjamin Button,
Frost/Nixon, and Doubt snaring five nominations each. Both Benjamin Button and
Frost/Nixon cemented their status as Oscars contenders, however, with
nominations for best drama, best director, and best actor.
Benjamin Button,
an adaptation of an F Scott Fitzgerald short story, stars Pitt as a man
who ages in reverse. Pitt’s rivals in the best actor race include
DiCaprio, who plays a frustrated 1950s suburbanite in Revolutionary Road, Sean
Penn, a trailblazing homosexual politician in Milk, Frank Langella, disgraced
US president Richard M Nixon in Frost/Nixon, and Mickey Rourke, a washed-up
brawler in The Wrestler.
In
the best actress race, Angelina Jolie was nominated for her performance
as a mother searching for her son in Clint Eastwood’s period drama Changeling.
Other nominees were Anne Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married, Streep for her
performance as a tyrannical nun in Doubt, Kristin Scott Thomas in I’ve Loved
You So Long, and Kate Winslet for her role opposite DiCaprio in Revolutionary
Road.
Winslet,
who is yet to win a Globe despite five previous nominations, also
received a nod in the best supporting actress category for her role as
a former concentration camp guard in The Reader.
This
year’s awards season takes place against the backdrop of a possible
Hollywood actors’ strike. Last year’s Golden Globes were scaled back
after actors vowed to boycott the event in solidarity with striking
screenwriters. But although the Screen Actors Guild on Wednesday
announced plans to hold a strike authorisation vote in early January,
ballots will not be tallied until after the 2009 Globes are staged.
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