Million Dollar Baby News

Swank and Friends Take Home Actors Guild Awards

February 07, 2005 10:02:23

Saturday, February 5th, 2005 has become a happy day for such actors and actresses as Hilary Swank, Jamie Foxx and Cate Blanchett, all of whom won the 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) held in Los Angeles.

In that event, Swank successfully won best actress award for her performance as a female boxer in Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby. Jamie Foxx, in addition, has won SAG's Best Actor trophy for his role as Ray Charles in the biopic Ray and there was also Cate Blanchett who won Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator.

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Eastwood Wins the DGA Award

January 31, 2005 09:01:24

Clint Eastwood wins the Directors Guild of America honor for the boxing saga Million Dollar Baby, in which he plays as boxing trainer and reluctant mentor to Hillary Swank the scrappy fighter who becomes a champion in the ring before her life takes a tragic turn. This victory will then asure Eastwood's prospects to win his second best-director prize at the Academy Awards held on February 27, 2005.

Winning this award has also brought Eastwood up to his fellow nominee Martin Scorsese who lost all his sixth guild nomination for best director for the Howard Hughes epic The Aviator. Gaining such triumph, Eastwood gives his appreciation to both co-stars Swank and Freeman whose presence in the Million Dollar Baby has made his job as director a delight.

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Swank Won Golden Globe Award

January 18, 2005 11:01:45

Gain her career fulfilment winning 2000 Oscar for Boys Don't Cry, Hillary Swank is back on the stage. She won the 62nd Golden Globe award for the best actress drama for her acting as a determined boxer whose life takes a tragic turn which she played in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby.

That tragic role in the movie has, anyway, set Swank on top of Golden Globe Awards that becomes a bright achievement in her career.

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