'Slumdog' rules Oscars with 8 prizes, best picture

Monday, February 23, 2009

LOS ANGELES -- "Slumdog Millionaire" took the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film's unlikely rise to Hollywood's summit.

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