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 Foreign Language Film Academy's "one-country-one-film" rule, which has been criticized by filmmakers. "The Guardian" said that the idea of a Best Foreign Language Film category itself is a "fundamentally flawed premise" and this is the "most critically sneered-at of all Oscar categories." It also stated, "In a perfect world — or, at least, as perfect a world as would still allow for gaudy film-award pageantry — there’d be no need for a separate best foreign language film Oscar. The fact that, after 87 years, the Academy has yet to honour a film not predominantly in English as the year's best says everything about