Author Topic: Slumdog Millionare picks up 10 Oscar nominations... (Read 1863 times)

weaklink75 · « **on:** January 22, 2009, 09:40:23 AM »

2nd in nominations overall...

(My take? It's got a shot at Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Song-it's got 2 nominations of the 3 in the category, though I think Springsteen got robbed here. I would think 2-4 wins overall, maybe 5 or 6 if it's really lucky...)

narzo · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2009, 08:44:34 PM »

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2nd in nominations overall...

(My take? It's got a shot at Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Song-it's got 2 nominations of the 3 in the category, though I think Springsteen got robbed here. I would think 2-4 wins overall, maybe 5 or 6 if it's really lucky...)
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am I the only one who never heard of this movie until about a week ago?

Jay Temple · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2009, 10:42:40 PM »

Probably the only one at this forum, yes.

parliboy · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2009, 04:50:38 PM »

[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'206802\' date=\'Jan 22 2009, 07:44 PM\'] am I the only one who never heard of this movie until about a week ago? [/quote]

Didn't pay too much attention to trade news and stuff. But it showed up in preview when I watched Happy Go Lucky a few months back at the local Angelika (major art cinemaplex three miles from home = score). If, OTOH, your movie-going experience is mainly at the local AMC 666, or if you're not in a larger city, then yeah, you're not going to have heard too much about it.

I grew up in a "city" of about 75,000. Slumdog Millionaire would never appear at a theater there before Oscar time, and usually not after either. Now in Houston, I watched it a month before the Golden Globes.