Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

"O Saya"
Music by A.R. Rahman; Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
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ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the first Academy Award nomination for Maya Arulpragasam.

Including his two other nominations this year for Original Score and Original Song for SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, this is the third Academy Award nomination for A.R. Rahman.

FILM SYNOPSIS

An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.

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