Unforgiven and Best Film Editing for editor Joel Cox. Eastwood was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but he lost to Al Pacino for "Scent of a Woman". The film was the third Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture, following "Cimarron" (1931) and "Dances with Wolves" (1990). Eastwood dedicated the film to directors and mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel. In 2004, "Unforgiven" was added to the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1881 in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, two cowboys, Quick
Academy Award for Best Picture "The Silence of the Lambs" was adapted from the sequel novel to "Red Dragon." The latter had been adapted for film as "Manhunter" by a different studio. Best Picture nominee "The Lion in Winter" features Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, a role he had played previously in the film "Becket." But "Winter" is not a sequel to "Becket". Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" was a companion piece to his film "Flags of Our Fathers," released earlier the same year. These two films depict the same battle from the different viewpoints of Japanese and United States military forces; the