Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai at the Oscars Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai on the Academy Awards' Red Carpet Pictured above are Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan arriving at the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony, which took place on Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Two years ago, an Anglo-Indian-American co-production, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire became not only one of the season's biggest sleeper hits, but also the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner. Dev Patel and Freida Pinto starred. Curiously, some have complained that Slumdog Millionaire was just a less interesting rehash of higher-quality Bollywood musicals and dramas that have received relatively little play outside South Asian communities around the globe. Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai movies The son of Indian cinema legend Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan has been featured in nearly 50 films. Among them are: Dhoom (2004). Director: Sanjay Gadhvi. Cast: Abhishek Bachchan. Uday Chopra. John Abraham. Esha Deol. Guru (2007). Director: Mani Ratnam. Cast: Abhishek Bachchan. Aishwarya Rai. Madhavan. Roshan Seth. The controversial, (faux) gay-themed Dostana (2008). Director: Tarun Mansukhani. Cast: Abhishek Bachchan. John Abraham. Priyanka Chopra. Bobby Deol. Boman Irani. Eduardo M. Freyre. Besides Guru, Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai movies include: The Pink Panther 2 (2009). Director: Harald Zwart. Cast: Steve Martin. Jean Reno. Emily Mortimer. Aishwarya Rai. Andy Garcia. Alfred Molina. John Cleese. Lily Tomlin. Jeremy Irons. Johnny Hallyday. Geoffrey Palmer. Armel Bellec. Evgeniy Lazarev. Dhoom 2 (2006). Director: Sanjay Gadhvi. Cast: Aishwarya Rai. Abhishek Bachchan. Uday Chopra. Hrithik Roshan. Rimi Sen. Bride & Prejudice (2004), a Bollywoodized adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Director: Gurinder Chadha. Cast: Aishwarya Rai. Martin Henderson. Naveen Andrews. Marsha Mason. Anupam Kher. Daniel Gillies. Indira Varma. Sonali Kulkarni. Nadira Babbar. Aishwarya Rai (now at times billed as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) and Abhishek Bachchan were married in 2007. Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai photo: Greg Harbaugh / © A.M.P.A.S. Helen Mirren Oscar dress parade Helen Mirren fashion show on the Oscars' Red Carpet On the Oscar Red Carpet, even multiple award-winning film, stage, and television veteran actresses play the role of fashion show models. Pictured above is Oscar, Bafta, SAG Award, etc. winner Helen Mirren, dressed in elegant, old-fashioned gray, as she arrives at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony. The British Mirren and her equally British Arthur co-star Russell Brand – whose moderately successful comedy Get Him to the Greek came out in 2010 – introduced the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.* That happened to be Susanne Bier's Danish drama In a Better World. Helen Mirren's Best Actress Academy Award was for Stephen Frears' The Queen (2006), in which she plays Queen Elizabeth II. Additionally, Mirren was nominated as: Best Supporting Actress for Nicholas Hytner's The Madness of King George (1994). She lost to Dianne Wiest in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway. Best Supporting Actress for Robert Altman's all-star mystery-comedy Gosford Park (2001). She lost to Jennifer Connelly in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind. Best Actress for Michael Hoffman's The Last Station (2009). She lost to Sandra Bullock in John Lee Hancock's The Blind Side. Last year, Helen Mirren was kept busy on the big screen. Her 2010 movies include: The sleeper hit RED. Director: Robert Schwentke. Cast: Helen Mirren. Bruce Willis. Morgan Freeman. John Malkovich. Mary-Louise Parker. Karl Urban. Ernest Borgnine. The Debt. Director: John Madden. Cast: Avatar's Sam Worthington. Helen Mirren. Jessica Chastain. Tom Wilkinson. Ciarán Hinds. The Tempest. Director: Julie Taymor. Cast: Helen Mirren (as a female version of Prospero, aptly named Prospera). Felicity Jones. David Strathairn. Tom Conti. Ben Whishaw. Chris Cooper. Alan Cumming. Reeve Carney. Russell Brand. Djimon Hounsou. Alfred Molina. * The original Arthur, a sleeper blockbuster back in 1981, starred Best Actor Oscar nominee Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner John Gielgud, and veteran Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights, Dark Victory). Helen Mirren Oscar dress photo: Ivan Vejar / © A.M.P.A.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.) website. This article was originally published at Alt Film Guide (http://www.altfg.com/).