Slumdog takes it all!

Its been a HECTIC weekend for me, to say the least
and I wasn't able to stay up and watch the Oscars (not that I actually owned a TV)
But it looks like Slumdog Millionaire has scooped up most of the prizes this year

text from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/oscars/7842438.stm

Best picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Frost/Nixon; Milk; The Reader

(I was routing for Milk)

st director: Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: Stephen Daldry - The Reader; David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon; Gus Van Sant - Milk

Best actor: Sean Penn - Milk
Also nominated: Richard Jenkins - The Visitor; Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon; Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Best actress: Kate Winslet - The Reader
Also nominated: Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married; Angelina Jolie - Changeling; Melissa Leo - Frozen River; Meryl Streep - Doubt

Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Also nominated: Josh Brolin - Milk; Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder; Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt; Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Best supporting actress: Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Also nominated: Amy Adams - Doubt; Viola Davis - Doubt; Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

(This one I thought was very well-deserved; I did get to see Amy Adam's part in Doubt, but as it was such a small amount of time she appeared onscreen I hardly thought she deserved it over Cruz)

Best original screenplay: Milk
Also nominated: Happy-Go-Lucky; Wall-E; In Bruges; Frozen River

(yaay!)

Best adapted screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Doubt; Frost/Nixon; The Reader

Best animated feature film: Wall-E
Also nominated: Bolt; Kung Fu Panda

Best animated short film: La Maison en Petits Cubes
Also nominated: Lavatory - Lovestory; Oktapodi; Presto; This Way Up

Best foreign language film: Departures - Japan
Also nominated: Revanche - Austria; The Class - France; The Baader Meinhof Complex - Germany; Waltz With Bashir - Israel

(Was routing for Bashir)

Best documentary feature: Man on Wire
Also nominated: The Betrayal; Encounters at the End of the World; The Garden; Trouble The Water

Best documentary short subject: Smile Pinki
Also nominated: The Conscience of Nhem En; The Final Inch; The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

Art direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Also nominated: Changeling; The Dark Knight; The Duchess; Revolutionary Road

Costume design: The Duchess
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Australia; Milk; Revolutionary Road

(Saw this on the plane: who else shouldve won? 2 foot-tall-wig on fire and all)

Make-up: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Also nominated: The Dark Knight; Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Changeling; The Dark Knight; The Reader

Best live action short film: Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Also nominated: Auf der Strecke (On The Line); Manon on the Asphalt; New Boy; The Pig

Visual effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Also nominated: The Dark Knight; Iron Man

Sound editing: The Dark Knight
Also nominated: Iron Man; Wanted; Slumdog Millionaire; Wall-E

Sound mixing: Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Wanted; Wall-E

Film editing:Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Frost/Nixon; Milk

(very dissappointed with this as well: I really thougt again, Milk shouldve won: great snippets of 60's-70's style fade-in and fade-outs

Best original score: Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Defiance; Milk; Slumdog Millionaire; Wall-E

Best original song: Jai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: Down To Earth - Wall-E; O Saya - Slumdog Millionaire

Sure, Slumdog Millionaire was a great feel-good movie, spectacular soundtrack and a good mix bwtween traditional/cultural elements and the materialistic- westernised influences in society and all, but call me a b*tch for even having this thought in my head:

Was the Miss World title of 2007 not awarded to Miss China immediately pursant to its committment under the WTO agreement to open its services sectors to foreign companies?

http://www.opinionasia.org/ButtressingChinasSoftPowerArsenal

and Thailand won Miss Universe in 1988 after scandalous pardons were signed between USA and Thailand over minefields placed during the Vietnam War.

Even the Eurovision song contests votes seem to be casted in the economic/political interest of neighbours:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080524152325AAO1OqK

(this guy says otherwise: http://www.ewanspence.com/blog/2008/05/25/the-myth-of-political-voting-at-eurovision/)

I am a spitelful, overjudgemental b*tch for noting that India is an influential member of the G77 :-s