A R Rahman wins Golden Globe (first Indian to do so)
Music director A R Rahman, who became the first Indian to win the prestigious Golden Globe Award, dedicated it to the “billion people of India,” as British Director Danny Boyle’s Mumbai-based saga ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ bagged four prizes at the ceremony on Monday.
Rahman, who won the coveted prize for his music score ‘Jai Ho’ in the film, thanked the director and his fellow musicians in Mumbai and Chennai, besides the “billion people from India”.
About Golden Globe Awards
The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in motion pictures and television. The formal ceremony and dinner at which the awards are presented is a major part of the film industry’s “awards season”, which culminates each year with the Academy Awards.
The 1st Golden Globe Awards were held in January 1944 at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles. The 66th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 2008, were presented on January 11, 2009 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
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