Some of the more notable: Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, each of which landed him an Academy Award.
The film that got the biggest bump as a percentage of total box office was Million Dollar Baby.
He won Best Supporting Actor in 2004 for his role as Eddie Dupris in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby.
"I've long admired Phillip's work, " said Swank, who won best actress Oscars for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby.
Several neighborhood groups like the Million Dollar Baby Dolls and the Ernie K-Doe Baby Dolls were active in the new millennium.
Apparently, he'd been renting a palazzo in Umbria for a month hot off the success of "Million Dollar Baby" and "Crash" when his phone rang.
Morgan Freeman finally won his first Academy Award at the age of 67, taking the best supporting actor trophy for Million Dollar Baby.
Barring some secret record-keeping that is someday revealed, we'll never know if Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby edged out Martin Scorsese's The Aviator by 10 votes or 1, 000.
Hilary Swank won in 2004 for Million Dollar Baby.
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And even in the major awards, in recent years for every cheesy piece of studio fare (A Beautiful Mind, Chicago) there's a corresponding smaller or edgier winner (American Beauty, Million Dollar Baby).
So for example, Morgan Freeman gets box office credit for Million Dollar Baby, for which he won the best supporting actor Oscar, but not for his supporting role in The Dark Knight.
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That's the way Paul Haggis, the screenwriter of "Million Dollar Baby" and "Casino Royale, " and writer and director of "Crash" and "In The Valley of Elah, " put it at Soho House last week.
Somebody, for example, needs to create a filter that would excise all the stupidity about Gaelic poetry in Million Dollar Baby, from Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) Warner Bros. studio.
That's because his strongest rival in the race is, irony of ironies, the most steadfastly conventional filmmaker of this year's nominees, Clint Eastwood, whose "Million Dollar Baby" is being hailed in some quarters as, amazingly enough, a masterpiece.
Although it's directed by a proxy (Robert Lorenz was assistant director on "Million Dollar Baby, " "Mystic River" and "Space Cowboys" among others), "Trouble With the Curve" has all the hallmarks of an Eastwood movie in his folksiest mood.
Despite beginning Oscar season as the front-runner, and scoring more nominations than any of its rivals (11 in total), Scorsese and The Aviator ultimately lost out to Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby, after a neck-and-neck battle between the two films.
It might not be the first word to come to mind, but he defended Hilary Swank's right to punch her weight in the Academy Award-winning "Million Dollar Baby, " and he has regularly cast strong, smart actresses in his films, women like Marcia Gay Harden, Frances Fisher, Diane Venora, Sondra Locke and Laura Linney.
''We are very pleased to have played a pivotal role in returning Mongolia's million-dollar baby, '' US Attorney Preet Bharara said.
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