Million Dollar Baby

...can think of no other word. Silence is consent, Tommy. I refuse to consent." Haggis, a Canadian-born filmmaker who wrote Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby before writing and directing the acclaimed Crash about racial tension in Los...

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...from his longtime wife at the time and was in the middle of a divorce. Freeman won an Oscar in 2005 for his supporting role in Clint Eastwood's boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby." (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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...prominence as an actor in films such as Dirty Harry. But in later years he has turned to directing, making films such as Million Dollar Baby, for which he won the best director Oscar. He starred in and directed the 2008 film Gran Torino,...

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...Mandela in the Clint Eastwood-directed "Invictus" (opening Dec. 11), won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his turn in Eastwood's 2004 "Million Dollar Baby," which also earned him a Golden Globe nomination and a Screen Actors Guild...

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...Baby" and "Gran Torino." So Clint Eastwood, born in San Francisco in 1930, has collected best picture and best director Oscars for "Million Dollar Baby" (and should have had best actor, too, Eliot reckons). Those statuettes go with the...

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...France, including by people who are not French citizens. Eastwood, who won Academy Awards for directing "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby," said he will continue to make films. "There's certain times Nature takes over, but it looks like...

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...seeking some hope of a future for his young son. INSPIRATION ON THE PLAYING FIELD: Clint Eastwood taps "Million Dollar Baby" and "Unforgiven" co-star Morgan Freeman to play Nelson Mandela in "Invictus," a post-apartheid drama about the...

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...quit the organization. Among the acclaimed Haggis' many credits: he wrote Million Dollar Baby and Flags of Our Fathers for Clint Eastwood; and he produced/directed and wrote Crash for which he won an Oscar. He has an all-around stellar...

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