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16Feb2009

Steamroll 'Millionaire'

DateMonday, February 16, 2009 at 1:17AM
We're less than a week away from the Academy Awards, and it's beginning to look like Slumdog Millionaire may be in the running to sweep in all nine nominated categories. We know it's probably going to win Best Picture and Best Director. Best Adapted Screenplay seems fairly certain, too. But that leaves seven other nominations in six other categories. Impossible, you say?

Well, consider the events of this weekend, in which the film picked up major honors from the Cinema Audio Society, the Art Directors Guild, the American Cinema Editors, and the American Society of Cinematographers.

Those wins put Danny Boyle's feel-good story out in front for Sound and Sound Editing, Cinematography, and Editing at the Oscars; the Art Directors Guild awarded it for Best Contemporary Art Direction, but it's not in the running for an Oscar in the associated category.

The only two awards left are the two nearly everyone has already agreed the film will win: Best Original Score and Best Original Song, where it has two nominations.

And the only loss Slumdog might experience - unless there's a tie in Best Song - would be losing to itself. How rare is the sweep? It's only happened twice in the past 20 years: The Last Emperor and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

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Peter Gabriel will take Best Song

Monday, February 16, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterscott

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