Danny Boyle’s movie “Slumdog Millionaire,” won the Best Cast at the SAG Awards on Sunday. After picking up a Golden Globe and a Producer’s Guild award, “Slumdog,” seems to be the favorite to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
Sean Penn won Best Actor for “Milk,” and Meryl Streep won best actress for “Doubt.” Kate Winslet continued her awards victory lap, picking up best supporting actres for “The Reader.”
Heath Ledger won best supporting actor for his role in “The Dark Knight.” Accepting the award on Ledger’s behalf, emotional co-star Gary Oldman called Ledger “extraordinary young man with an extraordinary talent.”
Christopher Nolan is arguably one of the most interesting and talented directors to emerge in the past ten years. His films have received both commercial and critical praise, and his latest, ‘The Dark Knight,’ has been receiving so much praise, and is poised to be the biggest hit of the summer.
With the recent spate of comic book-based movies, we’re in a golden age. It is no longer just okay to throw characters onto the screen with poor dialogue and ludicrous scenarios. The bar has been raised every summer. And the bar is now sky high. Now comic book movies must face the dizzying heights achieved by Christopher Nolan and ‘The Dark Knight.’ 
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