MUMBAI: British director Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire has won four nominations at the 66th Golden Globe Awards, held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) in the US. The ceremony will take place on 11 Janaury 2009.

While the film has bagged three nominations for Best Picture-Drama, Best Director for Boyle and Best Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy, it has also won music director A.R. Rahman the Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Music Score.

Apart from Slumdog Millionaire, the other films contesting in the best film award category are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road, Frost/Nixon and The Reader.

Furthermore, besides Rehman, the music score category nominations also include Clint Eastwood who apart from directing the film Changeling also composed the music for it, Alexandre Desplat for The Curious Case of Banjamin Button and James Newton Howard for Defiance.

For the best director category the nominees announced by HFPA are Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire, Stephen Daldry for The Reader, David Fincher for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon and Sam Mendes for Revolutionary Road.

The HFPA is also set to give away veteran director Steven Spielberg the awards' Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award this year.

The 66th Golden Globe Awards will be aired in India on Star World.