Unforgiven: A Second Look

This was a good little stretch for the Academy, wasn’t it? After largely being unmoved by the Academy’s choices through the 80s (Amadeus excepted, of course), the 90s keeps truckin’ after the exceptional genre exercise The Silence of the Lambs with Clint Eastwood‘s Unforgiven. I would be surprised if this wasn’t also part of the obvious move by the Academy’s actors body to wrest control of the Best Picture prize from anyone else (it was originally a producer’s prize, largely because an overa...