Clint Eastwood for "Letters from Iwo Jima". At the 64th Golden Globe Awards Eastwood received nominations for Best Director in both films. "Letters from Iwo Jima" won the award for Best Foreign Language Film. Eastwood next directed "Changeling" (2008), based on a true story set in the late 1920s. Angelina Jolie stars as a woman reunited with her missing son only to realize he is an impostor. After its release at several film festivals the film grossed over $110 million, the majority of which came from foreign markets. The film was highly acclaimed, with Damon Wise of "Empire" describing "Changeling" as "flawless".
Clint Eastwood in the 1960s Clint Eastwood in the 1960s In the 1960s, Clint Eastwood rose to fame in the Dollars Trilogy which would break him into mainstream cinema in the United States. In late 1963, a relatively unknown director Italian named Sergio Leone followed the advice of Claudia Sartori, an agent working at the William Morris Agency in Rome. He watched "Rawhide" episode 91, "Incident of the Black Sheep", dubbed into Italian. He concentrated on Eric Fleming's performance, but later admitted he was distracted by Eastwood's performance. Leone said, "What fascinated me about Clint, above all, was his external appearance. I noticed the lazy,