Danny Boyle

The father of the youngest girl from Slumdog Millionaire, Rubina Ali, was arrested last night after he reportedly tried to sell his daughter for several hundred thousand dollars.

The police were notified of his plan by his ex-wife.

Ali’s father, Rafiq Qureshi, 36, is allegedly trying to cash in on his daughter’s success playing little Latika in the Oscar-winning film.

When you’re good, you’re good.

Hot off his Oscar win for Slumdog Millionaire, everyone wants a piece of Danny Boyle and that includes the most prestigious film franchise in history. 

British newspaper The Sun reports that Boyle is being wooed to direct the 23rd Bond film.

Boyle and Bond, that’s in it to win it.

We likey.

Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle took his Indian cast, in town for the Oscars, to the Santa Monica Pier on Tuesday for fun and games.

Who cares about your eight Oscars when there’s Skee Ball and bumper cars to be had?

Madhur Mittal, who plays Salim, the older brother of Dev Patel’s Jamal, was seen beaming ear-to-ear and clutching his teddy bear booty.

Adorable.

–Sasha Perl-Raver

Slumdog Millionaire cleaned up at the Academy Awards, winning eight of the ten awards it was nominated for. Milk's star and writer were also lauded while The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which had the most nods going into the night, twelve in total, but was only recognized for its visual and technical achievements.

And the winners are...

When Hugh Jackman took the stage at last night’s Oscars, we were skeptical. But Wolverine delivered!

Performing on the most beautiful Oscar stage we’ve ever seen, Hugh slipped into a low-budget song and dance number that was the best opening the Oscars have had since the Billy Crystal years.

The producer’s decision to “downsize” the show because of the recession ended up inspiring the most creative, funny, well-executed kick off the show has had in recent memory.

Award Season continues and Slumdog Millionaire carries on its march to the Oscars.

Danny Boyle got the top prize at last night's Directors Guild of America for his work on Millionaire. This is a good sign for Boyle, as the winner of the DGA Award usually goes on to win the Oscar for Best Director.

Congrats to Boyle! He definitely deserves it.

—J. Bavoso

In case you were keeping score, need to settle a bet or had a Golden Globes pool, here's a complete list of last night's winners in the order the awards were handed out.

Let's get the painful worst out of the way first so we can end this year on the high note of what was great.

Worst
1. Hounddog
A terribly written, amateurishly directed, horrendously acted, self-important parable about lost innocence rife with Adam and Eve symbolism; the film’s major claim to fame is the rape of 12-year-old Dakota Fanning. To call it offensively bad is to be kind. 

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced their picks for this year’s best last night. Heath Ledger continued his sweep, which will undoubtedly lead all the way to the Oscars, while Sean Penn edged out PR darling (though far inferior competitor) Mickey Rourke, and Danny Boyle sailed along on his well-deserved road of triumph.

The LAFCA winners included…

We hope this sparks a trend that carries through to the Oscars.

The best film we’ve seen all year, Slumdog Millionaire, was the big winner at last night’s British Independent Film Awards in London.