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
César Award for Best Supporting Actress to have won two competitive acting César in a row. Including her Best Actress César won in 1983, Nathalie Baye is also the only performer to have won an acting César in three consecutive years, in 1981, 1982 and 1983. Noémie Lvovsky holds the record of most nominations with 6. With only two nomination for Best Supporting Actress but 14 nominations for Best Actress, Isabelle Huppert has been nominated a total of 16 times, which makes her the overall most-nominated female performer. Eight women have won both the César Award for Best Supporting Actress and the César Award for Best