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The 2009 Golden Globe Awards wrapped up last Sunday, with Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire sweeping all the awards they were nominated for and coming out as the Best Picture - Drama awardee.

Do you agree with the winners?

Best Animated Feature Film

Nominated: Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, Wall-E
Winner: Wall-E

I watched all three movies, and although all of them were really good movies, I have to agree that Wall-E is the best animated featured film among the three. It’s simply made, but it’s the kind of movie that you never forget. It will melt even the strongest heart and make him come back again and again to watch Wall-E.

Best Screenplay (Motion Picture)

Nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire

This is a bit tricky since I have seen only Slumdog Millionaire out of all these movies. But, speaking of Slumdog, it’s a simple story about a boy from the slums. The movie was never told in a matter-of-fact kind of way. Simon Beaufoy wrote it beautifully by writing it how a person’s life naturally flows. A person’s life never follows a straight line, it sometimes needs to go through a detour. And that’s what Beaufoy successfully achieves with Slumdog Millionaire.

Best Director (Motion Picture)

Nominated: Stephen Daldry (The Reader), David Fincher (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button), Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon), Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road), Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Winner: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Motion Picture (Drama)

Nominated: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire

When I heard Danny Boyle was making Slumdog Millionaire, I was expecting it to be like his earlier movies, including Trainspotting and 28 Days Later. Fortunately, it wasn’t. It was a movie about gruesome and scary stories, but it wasn’t a horror movie. It was a fact of life movie, which made it even scarier. But the great thing about Danny Boyle is that he made us aware that this is life in India. This is what people in slums had to deal with. It may or may not be true, but all his visual storytelling made us feel that that was the case.

So, do you agree with the winners? Academy Award nominations are coming out on January 22. Do you think the Golden Globe results will have an effect on this?

The Doubly Good December Contest has ended after an extension due to a tie for the most commented article.  Without further ado, prizes were awarded to:

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