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| Oscar joy for Slumdog Millionaire | Oscar joy for Slumdog Millionaire |
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| Hit British film Slumdog Millionaire has won the top prize at the Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars including best director and best picture. | Hit British film Slumdog Millionaire has won the top prize at the Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars including best director and best picture. |
| In a great night for Britain, Kate Winslet won the best actress Oscar for The Reader, finally clinching the award on her sixth nomination. | In a great night for Britain, Kate Winslet won the best actress Oscar for The Reader, finally clinching the award on her sixth nomination. |
| The big surprise of the night was Sean Penn, winning best actor for his role as gay rights activist Harvey Milk. | The big surprise of the night was Sean Penn, winning best actor for his role as gay rights activist Harvey Milk. |
| Heath Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for supporting actor for The Dark Knight. | Heath Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for supporting actor for The Dark Knight. |
| But the night belonged to Slumdog Millionaire, the rags-to-riches tale that has enchanted audiences around the world. | |
| Director Danny Boyle, 52, bounced up and down in delight as he received his award, telling the audience: "I swore [to my children] if this miracle ever happened I would receive it in the spirit of Tigger." | |
| Winslet was presented her Oscar by last year's winner Marion CotillardThe film, set in the slums of Mumbai (Bombay), won eight awards in total, including gongs for best adapted screenplay, cinematography, sound mixing, film editing, best original score and best song. | |
| "There are a few places I never imagined being... the moon, the South Pole, the Miss World podium and here," joked British screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, previously best known for writing The Full Monty. | |
| Indian composer AR Rahman, who received two Oscars - for best song and best score - praised the city which inspired the book, and subsequently the film. | |
| He hailed "all the people from Mumbai and the essence of the film, which is about optimism and the power of hope and our lives". |