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Blood Diamond. Jump to. 8 wins & 32 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 2007 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. Leonardo DiCaprio. 2007 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. Djimon Hounsou. 2007 Nominee Oscar. Best Achievement in Film Editing. Steven Rosenblum. 2007 Nominee Oscar.
Dec 8, 2006 · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers. A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.
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- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Edward Zwick
- 2006-12-08
Oct 4, 2023 · Blood Diamond was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio. Fact #11. The film’s title refers to the practice of using diamonds to fund rebel activities and the violent conflicts they fuel.
Nov 17, 2006 · Kidnapped by rebels, Hounsou’s son (Caruso Kuypers) becomes a child soldier, of which there are currently 200,000 in Africa — a fact this film’s final scroll makes painfully clear. Oscar ...
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is a 2006 American political war thriller film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou.
•Best Actor — Leonardo DiCaprio
•Best Film Editing — Steven Rosenblum
•Best Sound Editing — Lon Bender
•Best Sound Mixing — Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ivan Sharrock
Set against the backdrop of the chaos and civil war that enveloped 1990s Sierra Leone, this is the story of Danny Archer, a South African mercenary, and Solomon Vandy, a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories and their circumstances are as different as any can be—until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rar...
Memorable Moments. Martin Scorsese. Best Directing winner for The Departed, with presenters Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. An Inconvenient Truth. Documentary Feature winner Davis Guggenheim with Al Gore, Lawrence Bender, Laurie David, Scott Burns and Lesley Chilcott. Jennifer Hudson.
Dec 11, 2006 · Leonardo DiCaprio, 'Blood Diamond' Home. Film. Awards. Dec 10, 2006 9:00pm PT. Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘Blood Diamond’. Lead actor contender. By Amy Dawes. Until he got to Africa, Leonardo...
