Slumdog Millionaire (movie)

Review: 'Trance,' messy and deceptive, is no work of art

2013-04-04 16:45:00

Don't look to be entranced by "Trance." It starts out like a house afire, but by the time it's over we're the ones feeling burned. A slick heist tale with more twists than sense, this is one movie that ends up outsmarting itself. Both the good and the...

‘Trance’: Danny Boyle embraces dark side with heist thriller

2013-04-04 11:52:20

Danny Boyle finds his inner feminist with heist film ‘Trance’

2013-04-02 16:32:10

‘Trance’: See Danny Boyle’s new thriller early, free in Anaheim

2013-03-18 06:03:02

Quiz: The money behind Oscar 2013 nominees

2013-02-23 09:05:00

Academy Awards nominations and Oscar statues can provide a big boost at the box office. Some films benefit enormously. The domestic box-office take for 2009 best picture winner "Slumdog Millionaire" jumped to $141.3 million from $98.3 million after...

Oscars 2013: Telluride festival emerges as best picture predictor

2013-02-18 11:40:00

Oscar pundits love to debate the best forecaster of the Academy Awards. Is it the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild ensemble trophy or some obscure film critics organization?� Here's a new theory: the Telluride Film Festival. If "Argo" takes home...

Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony a winner at theater awards

2013-02-19 07:00:00

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle may be best known for "Trainspotting" and “Slumdog Millionaire,” but his globally upbeat opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics was named Theater Event of the Year on Sunday at London's audience-driven...

Oscar nominations 2013: Who are the favorites to win?

2013-01-10 09:05:00

"Lincoln" leads the field. Will its momentum carry through to Oscar wins? Here are the newly revised Gold Standard odds for the post-Ben Affleck/Kathryn Bigelow landscape. PICTURE "Lincoln," 10-9. Nominee kingpin, with nods in all the right...

SAG Awards 2013: Strong morning for Fox Searchlight

2012-12-12 09:13:00

Fox Searchlight, the art house imprint of 20th Century Fox, is frequently a major player in the awards season, winning the best picture Oscar with 2008's "Slumdog Millionaire." But the studio's strong showing in nominations for the Screen Actors Guild...

'Zero Dark Thirty' named best 2012 film by National Board of Review

2012-12-05 11:55:00

"Zero Dark Thirty," Kathryn Bigelow's drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, was named the best film of the year Wednesday by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. The movie, set to open in limited release Dec. 19, took home two other...

With four films in awards contention, Fox Searchlight has a plan

2012-11-29 06:00:00

It's not unusual for a specialty film label to juggle multiple contenders going into awards season. But it's pretty rare to be pushing the majority of your releases in a single year. That's the situation Fox Searchlight is in as four of its seven 2012...

Telluride Film Festival lineup: 'Hyde Park,' 'Iceman,' 'Argo'

2012-08-30 10:36:00

Movie fans trekking to Telluride, Colo., for the resort town’s annual film festival this weekend are set to see some of the fall’s most anticipated performances, including Bill Murray as FDR in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” Michael...

Because he still gets to go to the Oscars and remind you he was in "Hancock," one of those movies with car chases and explosions and excitement. Um, yeah, so there, "Slumdog Millionaire"!

2013-02-21 01:03:00

Future winners, look no further than " Slumdog Millionaire" composer A.R. Rahman, who took the night s award for best original score, for inspiration. "I just want to thank, again, the whole crew of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' Danny Boyle, for giving me such a great opportunity.

2013-02-21 01:03:00

Oscar nominations for "Lincoln." The last movie owning at least a dozen nods not to win best picture -- "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," which had 13 but lost to "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009.

2013-02-20 17:09:21