British Oscar triumph: Slumdog Millionaire sweeps the board with EIGHT Oscars as Kate Winslet wins Best Actress gong

It was a triumphant night for British film as heavily tipped Kate Winslet took the best actress Oscar for her role in The Reader, while Slumdog Millionaire swept the board with EIGHT awards this morning.
Dressed in a gunmetal grey one-shoulder gown, Reading-born Kate, 33, managed to hold back the tears as she accepted her award from a group of past winners including Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren.
In her acceptance speech, a composed Kate thanked director husband Sam Mendes, 43, and children Mia, 8, and Joe, 5, for loving her just the way she is.
'You just don't think that these dreams that seem so silly and so impossible could ever really come true', she said backstage at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
Another Brit winner

Later she told Sky News she planned to celebrate by 'getting massively drunk'.
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle hugs Rubiana Ali, who portrayed young Latika backstage .
It proved sixth time lucky for Kate who was first nominated in 1996 for supporting actress in Sense And Sensibility, then in the leading category two years later for Titanic, and best supporting actress again for Iris in 2002.
Best actress nods followed again in 2005 for Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Little Children in 2007.
Another Oscar loss would have tied Kate with Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter as the only actresses to be nominated six times and leave empty-handed.

Meanwhile, British-backed film Slumdog Millionaire was the triumph of the night, winning Academy Awards for best picture, best director for Danny Boyle, best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best sound mixing, best film editing, best score and best song.
Director Steven Spielberg presented the best picture prize to Slumdog's producer Christian Colson, who called to the stage all the Slumdog children.
Crowded on stage were Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, who played the film's young lovers Jamal and Latika.With them were the younger versions of their characters: Rubiana Ali (youngest Latika), Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail (youngest Salim), Madhur Mittal (oldest Salim), Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala (middle Salim), Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar (middle Latika), Tanay Cheda (middle Jamal) and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (youngest Jamal).

Anil Kapoor: Something is happening between Dev-Freida

While Slumdog Millionaire co-stars Freida Pinto and Dev Patel are busy with their public display of affections, co-star Anil Kapoor actually revealed the truth at Ryan Seacrest’s Morning Show on Radio.
Anil says the couple shared a “magical chemistry” and adds, “As a matter of fact, when I meet them I feel there is something happening.”
“But she says ‘I have to look after him’ and ‘I have to baby sit him’ and that kind of stuff… (I think) this is the beginning of something exciting happening.
“They definitely make a great pair. Both of them look very good together, ”
Recently Dev, 18 and Freida, 24 were seen shopping for a finger band in London, firing of rumors that they are indeed a couple.
An onlooker reveals, “Dev and Frieda seemed completely smitten with each other. They spent 15 minutes in the jeweler’s shop and were quite happy to sign autographs and talk to fans.”
“They paid particular attention to one of the cabinets which was full of the more expensive rings stocked by the store chain. They didn’t buy anything in the end but they certainly spent plenty of time studying the range.”
Dev-Freida what an unusual combo!! You like the jodi?

Big B miffed by critics for bad reviews against Delhi 6

Big B is quite upset these days by the critics who have written Delhi 6 off. The senior Bachchan feels that Delhi-6 is based on a complex subject which needs through honesty and strength to understand.
He writes on his blog, “The system…Needs strength..Needs an honesty… Needs to look within… A philosophy, ironically, portrayed so beautifully in Delhi-6 and an aspect, so mercilessly criticised in the reviews and opinions.”
“These(critics) individuals are the masters of the game. They are trained and knowledged in the job. Their opinion counts and forms the basis of analysis in attracting the customer to the theatre. So how feasible is their report when their observations differ to such an extreme and large extent.”
But… just the other day the same learned critics, had derided those that had expressed negative opinion on ‘SlumDog Millionaire’, vociferously defending the contents of the film, by arguing, that those that opposed it, did so because they were reluctant to accept someone who was showing them a mirror !!
So then, metaphorically speaking, or should it rather be, philosophically speaking, what are we saying -
SlumDog is ok and Delhi 6 not ??”
Well a great question asked Big B. What is your answer to the question folks?

Mahesh Babu's Next Film will be with Trivikram

Mahesh Babu's next film will be with Trivikram.The shooting of the movie will start soon.Parvathi Melton and Tamanna are acting in the female leads.The unit firstly tried for Deepika Padukone to act beside Mahesh Babu.But Deepika don't have enough call sheets now.So they selected Tamanna as second female lead.After Athidi film Mahesh Babu gave lot of gap to enjoy with his family.Now he is again ready to act in his new movie.The movie has got high expectations since Trivikram already gave a hit (Athadu) to Mahesh.And the recent film of Trivikram with Pawan is also a hit.

'Eleven Minutes' takes too long to explain fashion

Die-hard fashionistas, if Confessions of a Shopaholic had too much predictable rom-com rubbish and too little avant-garde clothing, go see Eleven Minutes.
It may not be that much more entertaining — a little goes a long way — but at least you'll get an honest behind-the-scenes look at the world of fashion.

The documentary focuses on Jay McCarroll, who was the first winner of TV's Project Runway, in 2005, and the 11 minutes he'll get to show off his clothing design talents during New York's Fashion Week.
While it's intriguing to learn about all the players involved in creating a fashion line, there's too much minutiae to keep the attention of those who are not obsessed with design trends. What works in snippets on a reality show would seem to work blown out to a full-length documentary. Only it doesn't.
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Perhaps this is partly because the film lacks the suspense of the show's competition. Additionally, the documentary's scope feels hampered by too tight a focus.
We hear McCarroll say, far too frequently, that his fall line is inspired by diarrhea and vaginal discharge. While hardly an advertising exec's dream slogan, it does prompt a kind of morbid curiosity.
But art — or its reasonable facsimile — must be balanced with commerce. Perhaps in a cursory nod to convention, McCaroll's color schemes are influenced by hot air balloons. He also rather mystifyingly refers to "transport" as an overarching theme.
When he won Project Runway's competition four years ago, McCarroll was dubbed "the next great American designer," which indeed must feel weighty to live up to. He can be funny and acerbic, but his obsessive self-absorption becomes grating with such pronouncements as: Project Runway "gave me the opportunity of a lifetime, but so much of it was me." He alternates not so charmingly between marveling over all the attention and whining about all the pressure on him to pull off something beyond fabulous.
What is meant to be a no-holds-barred exploration of the creative process often comes across more like the tiresome Confessions of a Reality TV Darling.

Every 'Slumdog' has its day: 'Millionaire'

LOS ANGELES — 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.
The other top winners: Kate Winslet, best actress for the Holocaust-themed drama The Reader and Sean Penn, best actor for the title role of Milk