Posted on 02/01/2005 10:21:13 AM PST by EveningStar
Movie star Clint Eastwood is the winner of the best director award from the Director's Guild of America.
Eastwood received the prestigious award in Beverly Hills, California Saturday for his critically acclaimed film Million Dollar Baby, beating out fellow American director Martin Scorsese. He was nominated for The Aviator, a biography of the late billionaire Howard Hughes.
The 74-year-old Eastwood directed, produced, starred-in and wrote some of the music for his drama about a boxing trainer and reluctant mentor to a scrappy female fighter.
The award makes the veteran filmmaker the favorite to win as best director at next month's prestigious Academy Awards. He won a directing Oscar in 1992 for Unforgiven.
Directors Byambasuren Devaa and Luigi Falorni won Saturday in the documentary category for their film The Story of the Weeping Camel, which profiles the lives of Mongolian desert nomads. They beat out Michael Moore, nominated for his controversial Fahrenheit 9-11.
He is a brilliant director, he made Sean Penn look good.
I didn't see Mystic River. My wife did and liked it.
Was that a spoiler?
Some think so. Some don't.
I had read the book Mystic River so didn't care for movie as it seemed disconbobulated and I had a difficut time with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins-was after our Mr Penn had visited Iraq and li;pped off and same with Robbins so even tho I like Penn as an actor it's all I could think of when watching him! I do love pretty much everything Eastwood has done.
I too have enjoyed most of his films.
I saw previews of the "Millionaire Baby" and it stunk.
Read it was about Euthanasia and kin dof promoting it. Yes?
That's a charlie.
Nah, it's about Hillary Swank becoming a boxer and Eastwood doing the coaching. Not impressive.
While being a huge Clint Eastwood fan his most "acclaimed" film up to now, "Unforgiven" stunk IMHO.
It looks poor Martin Scorcese may be denied again. = It looks like poor Martin Scorcese may be denied again.
The greatest(dark)western was Clints creation. "The Unforgiven".
"You just shot an unarmed man."
"He should have armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend."
and who could forget
"Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got and he's ever gonna have."
From what I understand from Medved and others, you are talking about the first 2/3 of the film.
"I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house."
"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."
I saw "Unforgiven" and I thought it stunk too. But that's where he won his first Academy Award.
the best.....up there with Tombstone and The Shootist.
great western.
I liked Tombstone & The Shootist but didn't not like "Unforgiven". The movie left me thinking "this is all there is?"
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