`Slumdog Millionaire` leads noms for World Soundtrack Awards

After eight Academy awards and four Golden Globes,`Slumdog Millionaire` is leading the nominations for the 9th World Soundtrack Awards.

Los Angeles: It looks like `Slumdog Millionaire` has not yet ended it`s award winning spree. After eight Academy awards and four Golden Globes, the Mumbai based potboiler is leading the nominations for the 9th World Soundtrack Awards. Composer AR Rahman who won two Oscars for his work in the Danny Boyle directed film, has collecting three more nods at the World Soundtrack Awards, reported Variety magazine online.

The rag-to-riches drama was nominated in three categories including `Best Original Score of the Year` in which it will compete with `Burn After Reading` and `The Curious Case of Benjamin Button` among others. The other two for the category are, `Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film`. While it collects the most number of nods for the awards held annually in Ghent, Belgium, Rahman has missed out on the list of `Film Composer of the Year`. Musicians Danny Elfman, Carter Burwell, Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino and Hans Zimmer are vying for the honour. Winners of 2009 World Soundtrack Awards will be announced at the closing ceremony of this year`s Ghent International Film Festival on October 17. It will feature performances by composers Alexandre Desplat and Marvin Hamlisch, who are the recipients of the World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award. Bureau Report