Los Angeles, August 24: The movie which has won four Golden Globes and eight Academy awards Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” is again on a hunt to collect yet another award at the 9th World Soundtrack Awards.
It is being said that “Slumdog Millionaire” is leading the nominations. It has not yet ended its award winning spree. Variety magazine reports, “Composer A R Rahman who won two Oscars for his work in the film, has collected three more nods at the World Soundtrack Awards.”
The movie was nominated in three categories including ‘Best Original Score of the Year’ in which it will compete with “Burn After Reading” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” among others. The other two for the category are, ‘Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film’. Rahman has missed out on the list of ‘Film Composer of the Year’.
Musicians Danny Elfman, Carter Burwell, Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino and Hans Zimmer are competing for the honour.
Winners of 2009 World Soundtrack Awards will be announced at the closing ceremony of this year’s Ghent International Film Festival on October 17.
It will feature performances by composers Alexandre Desplat and Marvin Hamlisch, who are the recipients of the World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award.
—Agencies