Dead Man Walking (film) "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film four stars, his highest rating, and called it "absorbing, surprising, technically superb and worth talking about for a long time afterward." At the 68th Academy Awards, "Dead Man Walking" was nominated in four different categories: Susan Sarandon won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role, Sean Penn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, Tim Robbins was nominated for Best Director and its main track "Dead Man Walkin'" by Bruce Springsteen was nominated for Best Original Song. At the Golden Globes, Sarandon and Penn received nominations for their acting while Robbins
International Emmy Award for Best Actress the International Emmy for best actress went to French Muriel Robin for her role as Marie Besnard in the Belgian-French telefilm "The Poisoner. Lucy Cohu, Julie Walters and Helena Bonham Carter won in subsequent years, Walters is the only actress to win twice the prize in 2009, as Anne Turner in "A Short Stay in Switzerland", repeating the feat in 2011 for her performance in the telefilm "Mo", which tells the life story of the parliamentary Labour Party Mo Mowlam. The first Emmy for best actress for Latin America was won by Argentina's Cristina Banegas for her role in the