Slum stars saved by Danny-Tata trust

Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle plays with the film’s child star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail (10) as the other child star, Rubina Ali (9), stands by at a press conference in Mumbai on Wednesday. Rubina and Azharuddin lost their homes this month as the authorities cleared out parts of Garib Nagar slum, where they live.

The two child actors from the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire are to get permanent homes after their shantytown dwellings were demolished, AFP quoted officials as saying on Wednesday.

They said Danny Boyle and producer Christian Colson, who set up a trust for the slumdwellers, on Wednesday asked officials of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, who manage the trust, to fund the new homes.

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Kate triumphs on sixth attempt

British actress Kate Winslet won her first Oscar on Sunday night for her portrayal of a German woman with a secret Nazi past in the romantic drama The Reader.

Titanic star Winslet, 33, was Oscar-nominated five times in the past 13 years but had always returned home empty-handed.

Her best actress Oscar joins two Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild award, a British Bafta and a handful of US critics awards that Winslet has won this season.

“To the academy, thank you so much,” she said. Winslet gave credit to her fellow best actress nominees — Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie and Melissa Leo — calling them “goddesses.”

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Slumdog now gets Writers Guild screenplay nomination

The Slumdog Millionaire saga continues with the British director Danny Boyle’s Mumbai-set film picking up more key award nominations in the run-up to next month’s Academy Awards.

While the Writers Guild of America (WGA) nominated it for best Adapted Screenplay for screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) picked it up for Best Cinematography nomination for Anthony Dod Mantle on Wednesday. Most of those nominated by the WGA and ASC go on to earn Academy Award nominations as well. The WGA will announce its winners on February 7 while the ASC will unveil its award recipient on February 15. Last year, the two WGA winners, Juno for Original Screenplay and No Country For Old Men for Adapted Screenplay and the ASC winner, There Will Be Blood later won Oscars in those very categories. The NAACP Image Awards, given by America’s oldest and largest civil rights organisation, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, also recognised the film with two nominations — Best Independent Feature and Best Supporting Actor for British Indian actor Dev Patel.

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