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'Slumdog Millionaire' keeps on collecting nominations and awards from film critics as it is given six nods for the 29th London Critics' Circle Film Awards.

• Dec 19, 2008

AceShowbiz - "Slumdog Millionaire" has dominated another awards as the London Critics' Circle announced their nominees for the 29th London Critics' Circle Film Awards. Though a press release on Thursday, December 18, the indie movie about an orphan who gets the shot to be a millionaire from a game show has been revealed to be the one movie which collected most of the nods with six nominations.

One of the counts put "Slumdog" on the run for the British Film of the Year, competing with "Happy-Go-Lucky", "Hunger", "In Bruges" and "Man on Wire". Another one gave Simon Beaufoy, the film's writer, a Screenwriter of the Year nod. Two others gave its director, Danny Boyle, a chance to win both Best Director and Best British Director titles, while the rest belonged to its star, Dev Patel, who received nominations for British Actor of the Year and Young British Performer of the Year.

Though "Slumdog" led the fields with six nods, there were other movies collecting multiple counts as well. "Frost/Nixon", "Happy-Go-Lucky" and "Hunger" were each given five nods, while "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" landed four, and "Milk", "In Bruges" and "The Reader" got three each. Additionally, "W", "Changeling" and "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" each received two counts.

The 29th Annual London Film Critics Circle Awards ceremony will take place February 4, 2009 at the Grosvenor House Hotel.

Nominees for the 29th London Critics' Circle Film Awards:

Film of the Year:

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• "Frost/Nixon"
• "Milk"
• "Wall-E"
• "The Wrestler"

• "Happy-Go-Lucky"
• "Hunger"
• "In Bruges"
• "Man on Wire"
• "Slumdog Millionaire"

• "Gomorrah"
• "I've Loved You So Long"
• "The Orphanage"
• "Persepolis"
• "Waltz With Bashir"

• Darren Aronofsky, "The Wrestler"
• Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
• Clint Eastwood, "Changeling"
• David Fincher, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• Gus Van Sant, "Milk"

• Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
• Terence Davies, "Of Time and the City"
• Mike Leigh, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
• Steve McQueen, "Hunger"
• Christopher Nolan, "The Dark Knight"

• Josh Brolin, "W"
• Frank Langella, "Frost/Nixon"
• Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
• Sean Penn, "Milk"
• Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"

• Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
• Anne Hathaway, "Rachel Getting Married"
• Angelina Jolie, "Changeling"
• Meryl Streep, "Doubt"
• Kate Winslet, "The Reader" and "Revolutionary Road"

• Michael Fassbender, "Hunger"
• Ralph Fiennes, "The Duchess"
• Ben Kingsley, "Elegy"
• Dev Patel, "Slumdog Millionaire"
• Michael Sheen, "Frost/Nixon"

• Rebecca Hall, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
• Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
• Kristin Scott Thomas, "I've Loved You So Long"
• Tilda Swinton, "Julia"
• Kate Winslet, "The Reader" and "Revolutionary Road"

• Liam Cunningham, "Hunger"
• Toby Jones, "Frost/Nixon" and "W"
• Eddie Marsan, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
• Peter O'Toole, "Dean Spanley"
• Mark Strong, "Body of Lies"

• Hayley Atwell, "The Duchess"
• Kristin Scott Thomas, "Easy Virtue"
• Tilda Swinton, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• Emma Thompson, "Brideshead Revisited"
• Alexis Zegerman, "Happy-Go-Lucky"

• Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire"
• David Hare, "The Reader"
• Martin McDonagh, "In Bruges"
• Peter Morgan, "Frost/Nixon"
• Eric Roth, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

• Asa Butterfield, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"
• Georgia Groome, "Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging"
• Bill Milner, "Son of Rambow"
• Dev Patel, "Slumdog Millionaire"
• Will Poulter, "Son of Rambow"
• Thomas Turgoose, "Somers Town" and "Eden Lake"

• Joanna Hogg - writer-director: "Unrelated"
• Martin McDonagh - writer-director: "In Bruges"
• Steve McQueen - writer-director: "Hunger"
• James Watkins - writer-director: "Eden Lake"
• Rupert Wyatt - director: "The Escapist"