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
The Best Years of Our Lives Best Years of Our Lives" received nine Academy Awards. Fredric March won his second Best Actor award (also having won in 1932 for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"). Despite his Oscar-nominated performance, Harold Russell was not a professional actor. As the Academy Board of Governors considered him a long shot to win, they gave him an honorary award "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance." When Russell in fact won Best Supporting Actor, there was an enthusiastic response. He is the only actor to have received two Academy Awards for the same performance. In 1992,