"on either high-definition optical disc format in the U.S.; it and ""Unforgiven"" (also starring Eastwood and Freeman) were the only ones released in the U.S. on HD DVD prior to the first one released in the U.S. on Blu-ray, ""Crash"".It is also available online for downloading and streaming video rentals through Amazon, Apple's iTunes Store, Vudu and Netflix. Million Dollar Baby Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. This film is about an underappreciated boxing trainer, the mistakes that haunt him from"
"Swank garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of Brandon Teena in the 1999 biographical film ""Boys Don't Cry"", which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She starred in Clint Eastwood's 2004 sports drama film ""Million Dollar Baby"" as struggling-waitress-turned-boxer Maggie Fitzgerald, which won her a second Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She has also starred in films such as ""The Gift"" (2000), ""Insomnia"" (2002), ""The Core"" (2003), ""Iron Jawed Angels"" (2004), ""Red Dust"" (2004), ""The Reaping"" (2007), ""P.S. I Love"
"for Best Actress for playing a female boxer in Clint Eastwood's 2004 film ""Million Dollar Baby"", a role for which she underwent extensive training in the ring and weight room gaining 19 pounds of muscle, aided by professional trainer Grant L. Roberts. With her second Oscar, she had joined the ranks of Vivien Leigh, Sally Field and Luise Rainer as the only actresses to have been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress twice and won both times. After winning her second Oscar, she said, ""I don't know what I did in this life to deserve this. I'm just a"
"November 12, 2014, he was bestowed the honor of Freedom of the City by the City of London. In August 2017, he was named the 54th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), and he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in ""Street Smart"" (1987), ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), ""The Shawshank Redemption"" (1994), and ""Invictus"" (2009). He has also won a Golden"
"2016 AFI Keynotes, and spoke at the 2017 Women's March in Park City. She received the GLAAD Media, Lambda Legal Defense, People for the American Way, Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, and the 2013 OUTFEST Career Achievement Awards. In 2018, she was honored with a Women in Film award for her activism. Peirce is openly lesbian. Kimberly Peirce Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American feature film director, best known for her debut feature film, ""Boys Don't Cry"" (1999), which won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hilary Swank's performance. Her second feature, ""Stop-Loss"", was released by Paramount"
"Kimberly Peirce Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American feature film director, best known for her debut feature film, ""Boys Don't Cry"" (1999), which won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hilary Swank's performance. Her second feature, ""Stop-Loss"", was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008. Her most recent feature film, ""Carrie"", was released on October 18, 2013. She is a Governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and a National Board member of the Director's Guild of America. Peirce was born on September 8, 1967, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Sherry and Robert A."
"Million Dollar Baby (1941 film) Million Dollar Baby is a 1941 romantic comedy film directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Released by Warner Bros., the film stars Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, and Ronald Reagan, with May Robson and Lee Patrick. When wealthy American expatriate Cornelia Wheelwright (Robson) is informed by her longtime lawyers that her late father swindled his partner, Fortune McCallister, out of $700,000, she acts decisively. First, because James Amory is the only lawyer in the firm to be outraged by the injustice, she hires him and fires the rest of the firm. His first task is to locate all"
"as overjoyed at her good fortune as she imagines they would be, and rather resent her. As the last straw, her boyfriend tells her she's an Elsie Dinsmore and breaks it off with her. Pam finally decides on a course of action that makes her happy, as well as those around her. Million Dollar Baby (1941 film) Million Dollar Baby is a 1941 romantic comedy film directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Released by Warner Bros., the film stars Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, and Ronald Reagan, with May Robson and Lee Patrick. When wealthy American expatriate Cornelia Wheelwright (Robson) is informed by"
"(26) 1. Imelda Staunton – ""Vera Drake"" (TIE) (52)<br> 1. Hilary Swank – ""Million Dollar Baby"" (TIE) (52)<br> 3. Julie Delpy – ""Before Sunset"" (40) 1. Thomas Haden Church – ""Sideways"" (55)<br> 2. Morgan Freeman – ""Million Dollar Baby"" (54)<br> 3. Peter Sarsgaard – ""Kinsey"" (19) 1. Virginia Madsen – ""Sideways"" (58)<br> 2. Cate Blanchett – ""The Aviator"" and ""Coffee and Cigarettes"" (37)<br> 3. Laura Linney – ""Kinsey (18)"" 1. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – ""Sideways"" (60)<br> 2. Charlie Kaufman – ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"" (55)<br> 3. Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke – ""Before Sunset"""
"2009, the critics’ group have agreed with the Academy on six occasions: Steven Soderbergh for ""Traffic"" (2000), Clint Eastwood for ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), Ang Lee for ""Brokeback Mountain"" (2005), Martin Scorsese for ""The Departed"" (2006), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007), and Kathryn Bigelow for ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009). Oscar winner denoted by * New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking."
"Teena in ""Boys Don't Cry"". To prepare for the role, Swank lived as a man for a month and reduced her body fat to seven percent. Many critics hailed her work as the best female performance of 1999 and her work ultimately won her the Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for Best Actress. Swank had earned only $75 per day for her work on the film, culminating in a total of $3,000. Her earnings were so low that she had not even earned enough to qualify for health insurance. Swank again won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award"
"them into the screenplay for ""Million Dollar Baby"". Clint Eastwood portrayed the lead character in the film. Eastwood also directed the film, and used the screenplay written by Haggis. ""Million Dollar Baby"" received four Academy Awards including the Academy Award for Best Picture. After ""Million Dollar Baby"", Haggis worked on the 2004 film ""Crash"". Haggis came up with the story for the film on his own, and then wrote and directed the film, which allowed him greater control over his work. ""Crash"" was his first experience as director of a major feature film. Highly positive upon release, critical reception of"
"Margo Martindale Margo Martindale (born July 18, 1951) is an American actress who has appeared on television, in film, and onstage. In 2011, she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award for her recurring role as Mags Bennett on ""Justified"". Martindale was nominated for an Emmy Award four times for her recurring role as Claudia on ""The Americans"", winning the award in 2015 and 2016. She has played supporting roles in several films, including ""The Hours"", ""Million Dollar Baby"", ""Dead Man Walking"", ""The Firm"", ""Lorenzo's Oil"", ""...First Do No Harm"", ""Eye of God"", ""Win Win"", ""Marvin's"
"of 21 in the fields of film, television, theater and music. ★ Bold indicates the winner in each category. ★ Corey Haim - ""The Lost Boys"" (Warner Bros) ★ Lisa Bonet - ""Angel Heart"" (Tri-Star Pictures) ★ Fred Savage - ""The Princess Bride"" (20th Century Fox) ★ Lea Thompson - ""Some Kind of Wonderful"" (Paramount) ★ Patrick Dempsey - ""Can't Buy Me Love"" (Touchstone) ★ Maia Brewton - ""Adventures in Babysitting"" (Buena Vista/Touchstone) ★ Corey Feldman - ""The Lost Boys"" (Warner Bros) ★ - ""The Gate"" (Alliance Entertainment) ★ Kirk Cameron - ""Growing Pains"" (ABC) ★ Alyssa Milano - ""Who's"
"Screenplay. It became the first film since 1981's ""Reds"" to be Oscar-nominated for the four acting categories and the first since 2004's ""Million Dollar Baby"" to be nominated for the Big Five Oscars, with Lawrence winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. It also achieved four Golden Globe Award nominations, with Lawrence winning Best Actress; three BAFTA nominations, with Russell winning for Best Adapted Screenplay; four Screen Actors Guild nominations; and five Independent Spirit Award nominations, winning in four categories, including Best Feature. The film was a success at the box office, grossing over $236 million worldwide, more than eleven"
"Eastwood's ""Million Dollar Baby"". Her career spanned 24 years, eleven CSA nominations (including two wins), and two Emmy nominations. The final films she cast were Clint Eastwood's ""Flags of Our Fathers"" and ""Letters from Iwo Jima"", opening seven months and nine months, respectively, after her death on March 2, 2006, aged 61. She was married to actor David Huffman until his death in 1985. She is survived by her two sons. Phyllis Huffman Phyllis Huffman (June 23, 1944 – March 2, 2006) was a casting director for film and television. She received numerous award nominations from the Casting Society of"
"1. Cate Blanchett – ""Blue Jasmine"" <br> 2. Brie Larson – ""Short Term 12"" <br> 3. Adèle Exarchopoulos – ""Blue Is the Warmest Colour"" <br> 3. Julie Delpy – ""Before Midnight"" 1. James Franco – ""Spring Breakers"" <br> 2. Jared Leto – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" <br> 3. Barkhad Abdi – ""Captain Phillips"" 1. Jennifer Lawrence – ""American Hustle"" <br> 2. Lupita Nyong'o – ""12 Years a Slave"" <br> 3. Léa Seydoux – ""Blue Is the Warmest Colour"" <br> 3. Sally Hawkins – ""Blue Jasmine"" 1. Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy – ""Before Midnight"" <br> 2. Joel Coen and"
"Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours)<br> 2007 Oliver Stone (Platoon, Wall Street)<br> 2006 Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa, Tootsie) 2015 Chris Cooper (The Bourne Identity), (American Beauty)<br> 2014 Edward Zwick (Glory), (Legends of the Fall)<br> 2013 Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking), (Atlantic City), (Thelma & Louise)<br> 2011 Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands, Alice In Wonderland, Pirates of the Caribbean) 2013 Barry Josephson (Columbia Pictures), (Enchanted), (Bones) Since 1994, Austin Film Festival has been recognizing the work of the writer through the Screenplay and Teleplay Competitions. With representatives from agencies and production companies participating in the judging process, advancing writers and their"
"Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), and he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in ""Street Smart"" (1987), ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), ""The Shawshank Redemption"" (1994), and ""Invictus"" (2009). He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including ""Glory"" (1989), """" (1991), ""Seven"" (1995), ""Deep Impact"" (1998), ""The Sum of All Fears"" (2002), ""Bruce Almighty"" (2003), ""The Dark Knight"
"list of participating cities continues to grow. Grant L. Roberts Grant Roberts is a former Mr. World Canada bodybuilding champion, and is a personal trainer, nutritionist, lifestyle coach, actor, author and philanthropist. Roberts was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is also a citizen of Ireland. He currently resides in Canada and the United States. Roberts career gained international recognition for his work in transforming the physique of actress Hilary Swank in the Clint Eastwood film ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004). Swank went on to win both the Golden Globe and Actress Academy award for Best Actress and paid tribute to"
"Choice Awards (three for ""The Hunger Games"", three for the ""X-Men"" series), a Satellite Award for ""Silver Linings Playbook"", and a Saturn Award for ""The Hunger Games"". Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Her films have grossed over $5.7 billion worldwide, and she was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016. Lawrence appeared in ""Time"" 100 most influential people in the world list in 2013 and in the ""Forbes"" Celebrity 100 list in 2014 and 2016. During her childhood, Lawrence performed in church plays and school musicals. At age 14,"
"Penn, Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins. The film was praised by critics and won two Academy Awards – Best Actor for Penn and Best Supporting Actor for Robbins – with Eastwood garnering nominations for Best Director and Best Picture. The film grossed $90million domestically on a budget of $30million. In 2003 Eastwood was named Best Director of the Year by the National Society of Film Critics. The following year Eastwood found further critical acclaim with ""Million Dollar Baby"". The boxing drama won four Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Hilary Swank) and Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman)."
"In order to fund the writing and development of the feature, Peirce worked as a paralegal on the midnight shift, as a 35mm film projectionist, and received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant. With help from the Sundance Institute's Filmmakers, Writers and Producers Labs in 1997, Peirce completed the feature film in 1999. Upon its release, ""Boys Don't Cry"" became one of the most acclaimed and talked about films of the year, opening at the Venice, Toronto and New York Film Festivals and earning many honors, including the Best Actress Oscar, Golden Globe, Independent Spirit award and many"
"1. Kirsten Dunst – ""Melancholia"" (39)<br> 2. Yoon Jeong-hee – ""Poetry"" (25)<br> 3. Meryl Streep – ""The Iron Lady"" (20) 1. Albert Brooks – ""Drive"" (38)<br> 2. Christopher Plummer – ""Beginners"" (24)<br> 3. Patton Oswalt – ""Young Adult"" (19) 1. Jessica Chastain – ""The Help"", ""Take Shelter"", and ""The Tree of Life"" (30)<br> 2. Jeannie Berlin – ""Margaret"" (19)<br> 3. Shailene Woodley – ""The Descendants"" (17) 1. Asghar Farhadi – ""A Separation"" (39)<br> 2. Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin – ""Moneyball"" (22)<br> 3. Woody Allen – ""Midnight in Paris"" (16) 1. Emmanuel Lubezki – ""The Tree of Life"" (76)<br> 2."
"has received Academy Awards, Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and People's Choice Awards, among others. Eastwood is one of only two people to have been twice nominated for Best Actor and Best Director for the same film (""Unforgiven"" and ""Million Dollar Baby"") the other being Warren Beatty (""Heaven Can Wait"" and ""Reds""). Along with Beatty, Robert Redford, Richard Attenborough, Kevin Costner, and Mel Gibson, he is one of the few directors best known as an actor to win an Academy Award for directing. On February 27, 2005, he became one of only three living directors (along with"
"the two co-head its sister online film distribution company ClickStar. Freeman also hosts the channel ""Our Space"" on ClickStar, with specially crafted film clips in which he shares his love for the sciences, especially space exploration and aeronautics. After three previous nominations - a Best Supporting Actor nomination for ""Street Smart"", and Best Actor nominations for ""Driving Miss Daisy"" and ""The Shawshank Redemption""—he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Million Dollar Baby"" at the 77th Academy Awards. Freeman is recognized for his distinctive voice, making him a frequent choice for narration. In 2005 alone,"
"box-office site Box Office Mojo, Larson's most critically acclaimed and commercially successful films are ""Scott Pilgrim vs. the World"" (2010), ""21 Jump Street"" (2012), ""Short Term 12"" (2013), ""Don Jon"" (2013), ""The Spectacular Now"" (2013), ""Trainwreck"" (2015), ""Room"" (2015), and ""Kong: Skull Island"" (2017). She has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award, among other accolades, for her performance in ""Room"". Brie Larson Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress and filmmaker. Noted as a teenager for her supporting"
"Grant L. Roberts Grant Roberts is a former Mr. World Canada bodybuilding champion, and is a personal trainer, nutritionist, lifestyle coach, actor, author and philanthropist. Roberts was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is also a citizen of Ireland. He currently resides in Canada and the United States. Roberts career gained international recognition for his work in transforming the physique of actress Hilary Swank in the Clint Eastwood film ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004). Swank went on to win both the Golden Globe and Actress Academy award for Best Actress and paid tribute to Roberts on both occasions, acknowledging his contribution."
"the World Turns"", ""Boogie Nights"", ""An Ideal Husband"", ""The End of the Affair"", ""Magnolia"", ""Far From Heaven"", ""The Hours"", ""A Single Man"", ""The Kids Are All Right"", ""Game Change"", ""Maps to the Stars"", and ""Still Alice"". Julianne Moore Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is an American actress, prolific in films since the early 1990s. She is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in both independent and Hollywood films, and has received many accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. After studying theatre at Boston University, Moore began her career with a series"
"categories]], ""Sunset Boulevard"" is one of only three not to win in any category, the others being ""[[My Man Godfrey]]"" (1936) and ""[[American Hustle]]"" (2013). At the time its eleven Oscar nominations were exceeded only by the fourteen received by ""[[All About Eve]]"", which won six awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Many critics predicted that the Best Actress award would be given to Gloria Swanson or [[Bette Davis]] for ""All About Eve"" and were surprised that the recipient was newcomer [[Judy Holliday]] for ""[[Born Yesterday (1950 film)|Born Yesterday]]""""."" Bette Davis believed that her and Swanson's comparable characters effectively"
"Jeannie Berlin Jeannie Berlin (born Jeannie Brette May, November 1, 1949) is an American film, television and stage actress and screenwriter, known for her role in the 1972 film ""The Heartbreak Kid"", for which she received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. She later played the leading role in ""Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York"" (1975), and in 2000s returned to screen appearing in films such as ""Margaret"" (2011), ""Inherent Vice"" (2014) and ""Cafe Society"" (2016), as well as the miniseries ""The Night Of"" (2016). In 2018 she played the President of the United States of America"
"the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In addition, it won four Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actress in a Drama (MacLaine), Best Supporting Actor (Nicholson), and Best Screenplay (Brooks). Widowed Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) keeps several suitors at arm's length, focusing instead on her close, but controlling, relationship with daughter Emma (Debra Winger). Anxious to escape her mother, Emma marries young college professor Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels) over her mother's objections, moves away, and has three children. Despite their frequent spats and difficulty getting along, Emma and Aurora have a tie between them that cannot be"
"or Musical at the 74th Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for her role in ""La La Land"". Emma Stone Emily Jean ""Emma"" Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. The recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2017. Stone has appeared in ""Forbes"" Celebrity 100 in 2013 and 2017, and was featured by ""Time"" as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Born"