Which 2008 film starring Dev Patel won the Academy Award for Best Picture?

Which 2008 film starring Dev Patel won the Academy Award for Best Picture? Slumdog Millionaire.

Slumdog Millionaire is Danny Boyle’s 2008 drama about Jamal Malik, a young man from Mumbai who reaches the final question on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? His answers prompt accusations of cheating, so he explains how experiences from his life supplied the knowledge.

Dev Patel made his film debut as Jamal. The movie was directed by Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and produced by Christian Colson; it was loosely adapted from Vikas Swarup’s 2005 novel Q & A. Although the film is set and filmed largely in India, it is a British production.

At the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture and seven other Oscars, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. A frequent mix-up is the year: the film is dated 2008, but its Academy Awards ceremony took place in February 2009. It also won for “Jai Ho.”