Oscars - Best Picture Winners

Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader

Who would have thought that a Brit-Bollywood movie that originally couldn't find a distributor and was earmarked for DVD would go on to Best Picture success at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs before taking Best Picture at the Oscars? But, Slumdog was an awards slamdunk across the board and took eight Oscars - matching Brit epic Gandhi's haul in 1983.

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