Unforgiven | |
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9 Nominations / 4 Wins | |
Year | 1992 |
Director | Clint Eastwood |
Writer | David Webb Peoples |
Starring | Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman |
65th Academy Awards |
Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with a screenplay written by David Webb Peoples. It stars Eastwood in the lead role, with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris. Eastwood stated that the film would be his last Western for fear of repeating himself or imitating someone else's work.
Wins
- Best Director — Clint Eastwood
- Best Film Editing — Joel Cox
- Best Picture — Clint Eastwood
- Best Supporting Actor — Gene Hackman
Nominations
- Best Actor — Clint Eastwood
- Best Art Direction — Henry Bumstead, Janice Blackie-Goodine
- Best Cinematography — Jack N. Green
- Best Director — Clint Eastwood
- Best Film Editing — Joel Cox
- Best Original Screenplay — David Webb Peoples
- Best Picture — Clint Eastwood
- Best Sound — Les Fresholtz, Vern Poore, Dick Alexander, Rob Young
- Best Supporting Actor — Gene Hackman
Plot[]
The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff 'Little Bill' tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Dissatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid', and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned, saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth.
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