8 OSCARS to SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

"It takes decade to achieve an overnight success."

And this success of Slumdog by winning 8 out of 10 nomination and beaten by itself in one out of two remaining (2 songs "Jai ho" and "O saya" are nominated for best song) is just an achievement of decades of toil and brilliant work which each individual has shown in there respective field and ultimately rewarded tonight.

Slumdog wins 8 academy awards:

Achievement in Cinematography - Anthony Did Mantle

Achievement in Directing - Danny Boyle

Achievement in Film Editing - Chris Dickens

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) - A.R. Rahman

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) - Music by A.R. Rahman; Lyric by Gulzar

Best Motion Picture of the Year - Christian Colson

 

Achievement in Sound Mixing - Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty

Adapted Screenplay - Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

The rest two in which it was nominated are:

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) won by "Jai ho" of Slumdog.

Achievement in Sound Editing won by  THE DARK KNIGHT - Richard King

Let us understand what actually Oscars are.

The Oscars reward the previous year’s greatest cinema achievements as determined by some of the world’s most accomplished motion picture artists and professionals. The Academy’s roughly 6,000 members vote for the Oscars using secret ballots, which are tabulated by the international auditing firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. The auditors maintain absolute secrecy until the moment the show’s presenters open the envelopes and reveal the winners on live television.

Awards are presented for outstanding individual or collective efforts in up to 25 categories. Members select winners from as many as five nominees in each category, which are determined by members of the relevant Academy branch. (For instance, only film editors may nominate for the Achievement in Film Editing award.) The only exceptions are the Best Picture category, for which nominees are selected by the entire membership, and the Best Foreign Language films, which are nominated by a committee of members drawn from all branches.

In addition to the regular annual awards conferred by the membership, the Board of Governors is empowered to bestow Scientific and Technical Awards, Honorary Awards, Special Achievement Awards and other honors.

Broadcast rights to the annual Oscar telecast provide the majority of the revenue for the organization’s rich and varied year-round activities.

Thus all in all Oscars for past several decades rules the world for its prestige and honour.

This year by winning 8 Oscars Slumdog opens a new window which clearly shows a face very old but having a freshness of sprouted leave:  "India" which is in business of making film for decades but slowly recognized by the world.

Clearly this time the two great personalities behind are A R Rahman and Danny Boyle who showed the color of India to the world.