I don’t usually sit in front of the idiot box for more than an 10 mins or so if an award show is coming but the 81st Academy Awards made me watch it. Its probably not the award, must be the craze for movies that started an year ago. Whatever it is, it was a treat, “Slumdog Millionaire” dominated by winning eight awards including Best Picture, Best Director went to the jolly person “Danny Boyle”. “A.R Rahman” unsurprisingly got 2 awards, Best Original Song (Shared with Gulzar) - Jai Ho and Best Original Score. Then there was the impressive stage performance by Rahman.

Best Picture - Slumdog Millionaire - Christian Colson
Best Foreign Language Film - Departures - Japan - Yojiro Takita
Best Documentary Feature - Man on Wire - Simon Chinn
Best Animated Feature - WALL·E - Andrew Stanton

Best Director - Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Sean Penn - Milk
Best Actress in a Leading Role - Kate Winslet - The Reader
Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Writing - Original Screenplay - Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay - Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award - Jerry Lewis - Comedic film & Humanitarian Work

You can check out the complete list of 81st Academy Awards nominees and winners