Danny Boyle wins Oscar for directing "Slumdog Millionaire"

British filmmaker Danny Boyle on Sunday won the Academy Award for directing "Slumdog Millionaire," the acclaimed rags-to-riches tale set in the slums of Mumbai. Boyle, 52, who had never before been nominated for an Oscar, beat David Fincher ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), Ron Howard ("Frost/Nixon"), Gus Van Sant ("Milk"), and Stephen Daldry ("The Reader"). It was the movie's seventh award