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WHY HE WILL WIN The film is feelgood without being schmaltzy, and has enough of a background of deprivation and poverty to feel heavyweight. Boyle himself is a well-respected director, one who has a varied but interesting career, and the achievement of taking a film partly in Hindi, shot entirely in India, with narry a star in sight, and making it frontrunner gives him considerable momentum.
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WHY HE WON'T WIN The Slumdog backlash has already begun, with naysayers claiming that the film indulges in "poverty porn" or presents a downbeat image of India. Those may not be big problems for Oscar voters - but will the film's current frontrunner status count against Boyle? And it's only his first nomination…
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