Hilary Swank Articles

Hilary Swank arrives at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Hilary Swank wasn't nominated for anything this year, but she was a presenter or sorts. She introduced last year's Best Direction winner, Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), who then presented the Best Direction Oscar to The King's Speech's Tom Hooper. Swank has won two Best Actress Academy Awards: for Boys [...]

Hilary Swank arrives at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Hilary Swank is a two-time Oscar winner: Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). This year she was not a nominee, though her fellow competitor Annette Bening was. Both Bening and Swank were in the running at the SAG Awards. Natalie Portman was SAG's Best Actress and she [...]

Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby MILLION DOLLAR BABY Review Part I Because of the film's near-absolute either pitch-black or shiny-white view of its characters, most of the acting falls into the trap of caricature, with Maggie's trashiest-of-the-trash family, in particular, coming across as a living advertisement for the end of all government assistance to the poor. Clint Eastwood's raspy-voiced "good [...]

MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004) Direction: Clint Eastwood Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter, Lucia Rijker Screenplay: Paul Haggis; mostly from "Million $$$ Baby," one of the six short stories found in F. X. Toole's (aka Jerry Boyd) Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner Oscar Movies Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby Fresh off the multiple Academy Award nominee Mystic [...]