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Academy Awards, USA. 1993 Winner Oscar. Best Picture. Clint Eastwood. 1993 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Clint Eastwood. 1993 Winner Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
The film won four Academy Awards: Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood, Best Supporting Actor for Hackman, and Best Film Editing for Joel Cox. Eastwood was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but he lost to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman. [3]
AwardCategoryNominee (s)Result20/20 AwardsBest PictureWon20/20 AwardsBest DirectorNominated20/20 AwardsBest ActorNominated20/20 AwardsBest Supporting ActorNominatedSep 27, 2011 · Jack Nicholson presenting producer Clint Eastwood with the Oscar® for Best Picture for "Unforgiven" at the 65th Academy Awards® in 1993. Introduced by Billy Crystal.
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Aug 3, 2017 · When Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven won best picture at the 65th Academy Awards in 1993, it was only the third western to do so. Even more striking was the fact that it was the second in two years, following Kevin Costner’s Dances with Wolves in 1991.
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Unforgiven, American revisionist western film, released in 1992, that was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood. It won four Academy Awards as well as both critical and popular praise for its uncompromising approach to the mythology and pathology of the genre in a brutal story that laid bare the emptiness of a life dedicated to violence.
Unforgiven takes place in 1880 and 1881, near the end of the period of the Old West. William Munny (Eastwood) is a former outlaw and gunslinger who has given up that life under the influence of his late wife and has become a hog farmer and father to two children. After a young, myopic would-be gunslinger, the self-proclaimed Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) arrives to suggest that he and Munny partner up to collect the bounty on the heads of two cowboys who have mutilated the face of a prostitute in the Wyoming town of Big Whiskey, Munny rides out to pick up his old partner, Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and join the Schofield Kid on his quest. Meanwhile, another outlaw, English Bob (Richard Harris), arrives in Big Whiskey with his biographer, W.W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek) in tow, intent on winning the bounty himself. The town’s sheriff, Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), disarms and viciously beats English Bob and then runs him out of town (leaving Beauchamp behind). Munny, Logan, and the Kid arrive in Big Whiskey shortly thereafter, and Munny is also beaten by Daggett. He is cared for by the prostitutes who are offering the bounty, and once he has recovered, the three men head out to find the offending cowboys. After they have dispatched one of them, Logan loses his stomach for killing and decides to return home. As Munny and the Kid corner and kill the second cowboy, Logan is captured by Daggett’s deputies and taken back to Big Whiskey, where Daggett proceeds to beat him to death; his corpse is displayed in front of the tavern and brothel. Munny then returns to Big Whiskey for revenge. In a climactic gun battle, Munny kills the unarmed tavern owner and five deputies and then savagely murders Daggett.
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•Studios: Warner Bros. and Malpaso Productions
•Director: Clint Eastwood
•Writer: David Webb Peoples
•Music: Lennie Niehaus
•Clint Eastwood (William Munny)
•Jaimz Woolvett (the Schofield Kid)
•Morgan Freeman (Ned Logan)
•Gene Hackman (Little Bill Daggett)
•Richard Harris (English Bob)
•Saul Rubinek (W.W. Beauchamp)
•Picture*
•Lead actor (Clint Eastwood)
•Supporting actor* (Gene Hackman)
•Art direction
•Cinematography
•Directing*
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Mar 30, 1993 · Hollywood honored international film legend Clint Eastwood and his movie “Unforgiven” with Oscars for best direction and best picture of 1992 during the 65th annual Academy Awards on...
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Aug 3, 2017 · On Aug. 3, 1992, Warner Bros. premiered Clint Eastwood’s R-rated Western Unforgiven. The film went on to win four Oscars, including best picture and director honors, at the 65th Academy...
