Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

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Television
In 1982 Boyle started working in television as a producer for BBC Northern Ireland where he produced amongst other TV films Alan Clarke's controversial Elephant before becoming a director on shows such as Arise And Go Now Not Even God Is Wise Enough For The Greater Good Scout and two episodes of Inspector Morse. They're all about someone facing impossible odds and overcoming them.

Boyle won numerous awards for his 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire including the Academy Award for Best Director. Boyle was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Austin Film Festival where he also introduced that year's AFF Audience Award Winner Slumdog Millionaire.