Trivia. Slumdog Millionaire won a grand total of eight Academy Awards, tied for fourth all time.Not a bad showing. ()Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, the actor from whom Jamal receives the autograph at the beginning of the film, is the real-life host of the Indian Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Director Danny Boyle reportedly lied to the production company about how much Hindi was going to.
Pretty good cinematography especially during the childhood flashback sequences but I still don’t see why this film won the Academy Award for Cinematography especially with nominees such as ”The Dark Knight” and ”The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. Not really Oscar winning material for cinematography in my opinion, I personally found.
Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandam, presents a simple fable, cleverly told, about the contrast between our idealistic dreams of a just society and the more sordid reality in which we live. Though it features a number of dazzling production techniques that contribute to its success, it also leaves me wondering about some missed opportunities. An undeniably.
The film's violence is offset by a mesmerizing exotica shot and edited with a great whoosh of vitality. Boyle successfully sells the story's most unlikely elements with nods to literary and cinematic conventions that touch an audience's heart more than its head. --Tom Keogh. Stills from Slumdog Millionaire (Click for larger image).
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In her essay “I Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind,” Joan Didion writes: “Visconti has less sense of form than anyone now directing. One might as well have viewed a series of stills, in no perceptible order.” This is what saves him; he depends, as do we, on set pieces as solution to his clumsy connectives.
Digital video was validated in 2009 when Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. It was shot in hi-def video. So was Avatar. And, in fact, many Hollywood directors are fast replacing traditional celluloid with digital video. Often the choice is a matter of generation. Spielberg prefers shooting in film because he’s.