Combined with the cardiovascular system, the circulatory system helps to fight off disease, helps the body maintain a normal body temperature, and provides the right chemical balance to provide the bodyâs homeostasis, or state of balance among all its systems. The circulatory system consists of four major components: 1  The Heart: About the size of two adult hands held together, the heart rests near the center of the chest. 2  Thanks to consistent pumping, the heart keeps the circulatory system working at all times.
Confidence votes 11. Clint Eastwood has won five Academy Awards, twice as Best Director and as producer of the Best Picture (1992's Unforgiven and 2004's Million Dollar Baby) and he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1995.
You read that correctly. In the history of the Academy Awards, only three Indian actors have ever been nominated in any category: Ben Kingsley (who is technically half-Indian) has been nominated four times, winning once for Gandhi in 1983, and Merle Oberon, who was nominated way back in 1936 for The Dark Angel.