A.R Rahman's Hollywood award
December 12, 2008
The
2008 Los Angeles Film Critics
Association
award for Best Music Score has gone
to A. R. Rahman for Slumdog
Millionaire.
Set in Mumbai, and directed by
Danny
Boyle of Trainspotting fame,
Slumdog
Millionaire has become an
unexpected
box office hit in the U.S. and U.K.
It will be released in India in
January.
Based on Vikas Swarup's
bestselling
novel, Q&A, it tells the story of a poor
young man who wins the ‘Kaun Banega
Crorepati’ quiz show.
Rahman's brilliant score for the film has
also been bestowed with another stupendous
honor: the coveted Golden Globe nomination
for best music score. On behalf of all his
fans in India, Behindwoods congratulates
Rahman
for this fantastic double achievement.
The other major awards were:
Best Film: Wall-E directed by Andrew
Stanton
Best Foreign-Language Film: Still Life
directed
by Jia Zhangke
Best Documentary: Man on Wire directed by
James Marsh
Best Animated Film: Waltz with Bashir
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog
Millionaire
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins,
Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Best Screenplay: Mike Leigh,
Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Cinematography: Lik Wai Yu, Still
Life
Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantel, Slumdog
Millionaire
Best Production Design: Mark Friedberg,
Synecdoche, New York
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