Danny Boyle is the favorite for the Oscars.

The awards for "Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle takes no end. Now he won for his surprise success of the Director of the Directors Guild prize: He that stands on the podium, usually wins the Oscar.

 

Los Angeles - The surprise hit "Slumdog Millionaire" in Hollywood has a new top price abgesahnt. The British filmmaker Danny Boyle, the tale of a boy from the Indian slums staged, was on the night of Sunday in Los Angeles by the Association of American directors (DGA) award for best director. He sat up against Christopher Nolan ( "Dark Knight"), David Fincher ( "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button"), Ron Howard ( "Frost / Nixon") and Gus Van Sant ( "Milk") by.

"Slumdog Millionaire" has already made to the Golden Globes with the actor and the producer prices the major trophies won. He also was awarded with the Critics Award of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the British Independent Film Award.

"Slumdog Millionaire" tells the story of Jamal Malik, a street child in the slums of Bombay and grow up as a 18-year-old in India's version of the TV show "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" lands. The boy comes up to the penultimate question, as the show is interrupted. Malik is arrested because he was accused of fraud: How should a street child to so much knowledge come from? The film provides the answer - so bildmächtig as poetic.

A triumphant underdog

"Slumdog Millionaire" was in the U.S. in the forefront of almost failed, because his label Warner Independent Warner materialize, Boyle lost the cinema distribution. Send to a cinema commercial success of the film but Warner believed not - the film should then appear directly on DVD. Finally came the Warner cinema distribution to also be rather small specialized productions label Fox Searchlight ( "Little Miss Sunshine"), which it first at the end of 2008 in ten cinemas brought to the screen. Boyle thanked Warner for the DGA award for "the right thing" to have "when it so easily would have been the wrong thing to do."

It was "Slumdog Millionaire" to the surprise success with audiences, Search Light increased copy numbers at least through 600th In the United States played the film's production has more than twice: The hot Oscar-nominee was equipped with a mini-budget of 15 million U.S. dollars realized. The history of film blogs, nearly in the film told the story about the rise of a universally underrated underdog.

In terms of awards is "Slumdog Millionaire" clearly on record course: 43 prizes and awards he has won for 36 more, he is nominated for ten Oscars including. The latest accolade for Boyle is now a safe indicator that he worked for the Oscars, on 22 February will also scoop.

Last year, the U.S. brothers Joel and Ethan Coen with their laconic Western thriller "No Country for Old Men" put out the competition. Since 1949, it is only six DGA winners are not successful, in the same year, the Oscar for best director working to win. The last pitch was director Rob Marshall, the "Chicago" (2002), the DGA trophy won at the Oscars, but Roman Polanski ( "The Pianist") subject. At this year's Oscars, in addition to the directors Boyle Fincher, Howard, Van Sant and Stephen Daldry with "the lecture" into the race.

The Israeli film "Waltz with Bashir" won the DGA Award for best documentary. Organized by the German film production company Razor animated film produced in Berlin is the experiences of a young Israeli soldiers in Lebanon after 1982 war, the witness of the massacre at Sabra and Schatila had become.

"Waltz with Bashir" was recently the Golden Globe in the category of foreign film and compete with the RAF drama "Baader Meinhof Complex" also won an Oscar for best foreign film. The Oscars are in the night to 23 February in Hollywood award.