"Who won an Oscar for directing ""Slumdog Millionaire"", which also won an Oscar for Best Picture?"
Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture album again rebounded from 48 to 22 by selling 21,000 copies (a 38% rise), spurred by sales due to the Oscar win at the 81st Academy Awards. Nominated for Best Original Song at Academy Awards<br> Winner of Best Original Song at Academy Awards Other music featured in the film include: Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album of the British drama film of the same name, directed by Danny Boyle. The original score and songs were composed by A. R. Rahman, who planned the score in two months and
Slumdog Millionaire of various newspapers. On 22 February 2009, the film won eight out of ten Academy Awards for which it was nominated, including the Best Picture and Best Director. It is the eighth film ever to win eight Academy Awards and the eleventh Best Picture Oscar winner without a single acting nomination. At the same time, "Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth)", India's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, failed to make the short list of nominations and was frequently compared with "Slumdog Millionaire" in the Indian media. The film also won seven of the eleven BAFTA