The Academy Awards is finally over with Sean Penn winning best leading actor and Kate Winslet winning best leading actress.

Taking home the grand title is ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ for Best Picture in 2008.

Slumdog Millionaire is a drama film directed by Danny Boyle, co-directed by Loveleen Tandan, and written by Simon Beaufoy. It is an adaptation of the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-nominated novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ won five Critics’ Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film, and was nominated for ten Academy Awards.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ ranked in $98,019,715 at the box office.

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Set and filmed in India, Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of a young man from the slums of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Kaun Banega Crorepati, mentioned in the Hindi version) and exceeds people’s expectations, arousing the suspicions of the game show host and of law enforcement officials.

After screenings at the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, Slumdog Millionaire initially had a limited North American release on November 12, 2008 by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, to critical acclaim and awards success, and later had a nationwide release in the United States on 23 January 2009 and in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2009. It premiered in Mumbai on January 22, 2009.

It won Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, and Best Picture in the 81st Academy Awards.The film is also the subject of controversy concerning its portrayal of India and Hinduism as well as the welfare of its child actors.