Unforgiven
Intense western from Clint Eastwood about a retired outlaw who agrees to take on one final, lucrative job. Winner of four Oscars, including those for best film, best director and for best actor in a supporting role (Gene Hackman).
Unforgiven is set in 1880. William Munny (Clint Eastwood) has put a violent past behind himself and is trying to provide for his children with a pig farm. He reluctantly thinks back to the time when he committed one act of violence after another. Nevertheless, Munny is persuaded to hunt down two men who mutilated a prostitute. In the process, he will cross paths with brutal sheriff Bill Daget (Gene Hackman).
Eastwood begins his film as a classic western, but Unforgiven is both western and anti-western. Instead of a schematic battle between good and evil, the viewer is presented with a poignant and sober meditation on the horrific human impact of violence. Eastwood made his film at a time when no one in Hollywood saw any commercial value in the western, but Eastwood proved the studio executives wrong. The film received nine Oscar nominations and won four. Gene Hackman won the second Oscar of his career for his role as sheriff Bill Daget.