Critical Acclaim

Slumdog is highly acclaimed, named in top ten lists for many newspapers:
The film won 8 Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing.
It won 7 BAFTAs for Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Music, Best Editing and Best Sound.
It also won 4 Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture - Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score. It was released widely in the UK on 9th January 2009 and US on 23rd January 2009, just weeks before the awards ceremonies - Academy Awards, BAFTAS and Golden Globes.
Slumdog Millionaire has also been critically acclaimed in the Western World. As of 11 November 2009, Rotten Tomatoes has given the film a 93% rating with an average score of 8.2/10. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 86, based on 36 reviews. IMDB (Internet Movie Database) also gave the film a high rating of 8.4/10 - the 73rd highest out of all the movies they have ever reviewed.