After scooping 7 Oscars Slumdog Millionaire gets the last Oscar of the night giving them a whopping 8 Oscars.

The last award was for Best Picture, this now means I have to go out an buy it.

"Slumdog Millionaire" is the Academy Awards champion, wrapping up its ghetto-to-glory story by winning best picture and seven other Oscars, including the directing honor for Danny Boyle.

A story of hope amid squalor in Mumbai, India, "Slumdog Millionaire" also had wins that include adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing and both music Oscars, score and song.

Director Boyle offered warm gratitude to the people of Mumbai, saying they "dwarf even this guy" as he held up his Oscar statue.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Christian Colson

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This is the first Academy Award nomination for Christian Colson.

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80th Annual Academy Awards 2008.


The Oscar 2008 for the Best Picture goes to Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men.


Scott Rudin said....

This is an unbelievable honor and a complete surprise. So many people have a part of this, chief among them Cormac McCarthy, who wrote a wonderful book that it was an honor to make into a movie. The three men sitting down front, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee JOnes, Javier Bardem, without them there would be no movie.

These two gentlemen [to Joel and Ethan Coen], I can't think of anybody I would rather be standing here with than the two of you. Thank you so much for this.

Everybody at Vantage and Miramax who financed the movie together. The entire team at Miramax who did a brilliant, brilliant job selling it. Thank you to all of them.

I want to thank Mark Roybal, It's a pleasure to work with Him every day.

I want to thank my friend, Sydney Pollack, who taught me that with the responsibility -- with the opportunity to make movies comes the responsibility of making them good. This for him.

This is also for my partner John Barlow. Without you, honey, this would be hardware. Thank you so much. Thank you.

No Country for Old Men Synopsis.



When Llewellyn Moss comes upon a corpse-strewn drug-deal-gone-wrong in the middle of the barren West Texas range, he takes the bag of cash he finds at the scene and soon draws the attention of the county sheriff investigating the crime. Sheriff Bell will become Llewellyn's best hope for survival, however, when he finds himself the object of a relentless pursuit by hired killer Anton Chigurh, a murderous sociopath.