Wins Oscar
Eastwood wins the Academy Award for Best Directing for his western Unforgiven. Barbra Streisand presents the award.
It wasn’t a highly tout(ed) film when it came out, but they (the film critics) sort of stayed with it throughout the year. The French film critics who embraced some of my work very early in the game, the British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art are some of the people that were there long before I ever became fashionable.