Wins Oscar
Eastwood wins the Academy Award for Best Directing for his female boxing drama Million Dollar Baby. Julia Roberts presents the award.
I’m just lucky to be here. Lucky to be still working. And I watched Sidney Lumet out there, who is eighty, and I figure, I’m just a kid. I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet. So thank you all very much. Appreciate it.
Wins Oscar
Producer, director, and actor Clint Eastwood wins the Academy Award for Best Picture for the western Unforgiven. Jack Nicholson presents the award.
Thank you. This is just a wonderful one because this includes, this goes to just about everybody I can think of.
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.