THE SWEET SCIENCE HILARY SWANK WINS HER SECOND OSCAR AS 'MILLION DOLLAR' BOXER.Byline: Fred Shuster and Valerie Kuklenski Staff Writers Hilary Swank was named best actress Sunday for her poignant role as a doomed boxer in best picture ``Million Dollar Baby.'' ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what I did in this life to deserve all this,'' Swank said. ``I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would happen.'' Swank joined Vivien Leigh, Helen Hayes, Sally Field Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award winning American actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award-winning and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at age 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom and Luise Rainer as the only actresses with two nominations and two wins. It was also the second time Swank, 30, swept past fellow nominee Annette Bening Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is a Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actress. Biography Early life Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley and Grant Bening, an insurance salesman. on her way to the Oscar stage. They last competed in 2000, when Swank's cross-dresser Brandon Teena Brandon Teena[1] (December 12, 1972 - December 31, 1993), born Teena Renae Brandon in Lincoln, Nebraska, and known simply as Brandon, was a physiological female living as a transsexual man[2] who was raped and eventually murdered[3] in ``Boys Don't Cry'' won out over Bening's perfection-seeking real estate broker Carolyn Burnham in ``American Beauty American Beauty n. A type of rose bearing large, long-stemmed purplish-red flowers. .'' This year it was Bening's stage diva Julia Lambert in ``Being Julia'' that was left on the canvas by Swank's gritty yet likable boxer Maggie Fitzgerald in ``Million Dollar Baby.'' Their fellow nominees were Kate Winslet <noinclude></noinclude> Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-nominated, BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English actress. in ``Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,'' Imelda Staunton in ``Vera Drake'' and Catalina Sandino Moreno Catalina Sandino Moreno (born April 19 1981) is an Academy Award-nominated Colombian actress. Sandino was born in Bogotá, Colombia to a pathologist mother. Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. in ``Maria Full of Grace.'' Sunday at the Kodak Theatre, Swank thanked ``Million Dollar'' best director winner Clint Eastwood, calling him the Gaelic term of endearment en·dear·ment n. 1. The act of endearing. 2. An expression of affection, such as a caress. endearment Noun an affectionate word or phrase Noun 1. used in the film that means ``my darling, my blood.'' The competition may have been close, but Swank's win was no surprise, given her awards this year at the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild ceremonies and the motion picture academy's long love affair with boxing films. Whether it's the action sequences, the earthy characters, the abundant metaphors or a combination of the three, the academy has favored several boxing pictures with awards or nominations, including ``Rocky,'' ``Raging Bull,'' ``On the Waterfront,'' ``Champion,'' ``Ali,'' ``Body and Soul'' and the documentary ``When We Were Kings.'' ``Million Dollar Baby'' actually is Swank's second role as a fighter mentored by a sage coach. In 1994, she starred opposite Pat Morita in ``The New Karate Kid,'' a poorly received sequel that surfaces on cable from time to time. Swank, who lived in a car with her mother when she moved to Los Angeles as a teenager, broke into acting jobs in the early 1990s with guest parts and TV movies. They led to series roles on ``Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and ``Beverly Hills, 90210.'' Other notable feature credits include ``The Affair of the Necklace,'' ``Insomnia'' and ``The Core.'' Swank's next performance will be in director Brian De Palma's ``The Black Dahlia,'' about the notorious L.A. murder case. Valerie Kuklenski, (818) 713-3750 valerie.kuklenski(at)dailynews.com Fred Shuster, (818) 713-3676 fred.shuster(at)dailynews.com |
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