At the recent Golden Globe Awards Ceremony held in Los Angeles, Bangor University alumni Danny Boyle’s most recent film Slumdog Millionaire received the award 
for Best Film. Boyle graduated from Bangor University with a degree in English & Drama in 1978 and the staff at the University's College of Arts & Humanities were particularly pleased to hear the good news on Boyle's success at the Golden Globe Awards in Hollywood.
Not only did Slumdog Millionaire win the coveted Best Drama Golden Globe, Boyle himself was awarded Best Director, the films scriptwriter, Simon Beaufoy won Best Scriptwriter and the soundtrack won acclaimed Indian composer AR Rahman the Best Musical Score Globe.
Boyle is known globally for his other earlier films such as Shallow Grave and Trainspotting.
Professor Tony Brown of the School of English instructed Boyle during his first year at University. Professor Brown recalls: "He seemed a very mature, very focussed and down to earth student- and so very involved in everything that was going on- in particular within the Drama Society...I am surprised at his success- only in that I'd have expected him to be a stage actor or director. He has immense presence and personality, he's very bright and has made some remarkable films- they're all so different to each other- he's been his own man and has not become sucked in to the Hollywood 'studio' system.”
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Content added on 12 January 2009.
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