Director: Danny Boyle.
Cast: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto

Jamal Malik, a penniless eighteen year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, he is suddenly arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal’s incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits, to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs, to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery:  What is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out.  Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty). (PG-13/118 min.)

• Golden Globe Nomination for Best Motion Picture - Drama
• Danny Boyle - Golden Globe Nomination for Best Director - Motion Picture
• Simon Beaufoy - Golden Globe Nomination for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
• A. R. Rahman - Golden Globe Nomination for Best Original Score - Motion Picture
• Best Film - National Board of Review
• Dev Patel - Breakthrough Performance by an Actor, National Board of Review
• Simon Beaufoy - Best Adapted Screenplay, National Board of Review (tie)
• Danny Boyle - Best Director, Los Angeles Film Critics Association
• A. R. Rahman - Best Musical Score, Los Angeles Film Critics Association
• Anthony Dod Mantle - Best Cinematography, New York Film Critics Circle
• Best Picture Nominee - The Critics' Choice Awards