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Slumdog Millionaire Best Picture

Who You Callin' a Slumdog?

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

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Sanjay Khanna

The enthusiastic embrace of Slumdog Millionaire may actually signify a sober recognition that growing inequality has become a permanent, unchangeable facet of U.S.

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Question for Secretary Clinton: What Will the Millions of "Slumdogs" Be When They Grow Up?

Jennifer Delaney | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

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Jennifer Delaney

Secretary Clinton must keep her confirmation hearing promise to the world's "slumdogs." Outside of the movies, desperately poor children do not live Jamal's story.

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How Godzilla Helped Slumdog Sweep the Oscars

Jason Notte | Posted 03.26.2009 | Entertainment

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Jason Notte

Few could have imagined the impact Godzilla: King of the Monsters would have had when it was released here in 1956, but a half-century later it's the most important foreign film in American history.

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Academy to Slumdog Millionaire: Love Your Film, Hate Your Actors

Jason Notte | Posted 03.01.2009 | Entertainment

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Jason Notte

In keeping with the Academy's tradition of recognizing Indian contributions to the film industry, we pay tribute to Slumdog Millionaire by excluding it from our acting categories.

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Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle on Storytelling

Gotham Chopra | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment

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Gotham Chopra

If there is one thing we might learn from great filmmaking, as with Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, it is that through our stories we have the ability to inspire, lead, and transform.

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The Street Children in Slumdog Millionaire

Mallika Chopra | Posted 02.09.2009 | Entertainment

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Mallika Chopra

One of the benefits of the success of Slumdog Millionaire is that it is raising awareness of the plight of children who live in poverty. Personally, I...

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Three Things for the New Year

Alec Baldwin | Posted 01.31.2009 | Entertainment

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Alec Baldwin

One is that Danny Boyle wins for Best Director and that Slumdog Millionaire is Best Picture at the Oscars. I hope its star, Dev Patel, is, at the very least, nominated for this incredible film.

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