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Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 2007 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Alexander Korda Award 2007 · Winner
Academy Award Actor in a Leading Role 2007 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Adapted Screenplay 2007 · Winner
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role 2007 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actor in a Leading Role 2007 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actor in a Supporting Role 2007 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film 2007 · Nominated
2007 Winner Cinema for Peace Award. Cinema for Peace Special Award: Most Valuable Film Actor of the Year; Forest Whitaker (Actor)
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For his performance as Idi Amin, Whitaker won an Academy Award for Best Actor, among other accolades. Plot. In 1970, Nicholas Garrigan graduates from the University of Edinburgh Medical School. With dull prospects at home, he decides to seek adventure abroad by working at a missionary clinic in Uganda run by David Merrit and his wife, Sarah.
Jan 19, 2007 · The Last King of Scotland: Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson. Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
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Nov 17, 2006 · Release: Sep. 27 Distributor: Fox Searchlight Oscar Alum: Kevin Macdonald (doc, "One Day in September")
Sep 6, 2006 · Awards. Sep 6, 2006 1:24pm PT. The Last King of Scotland. A supersized performance by Forest Whitaker dominates "The Last King of Scotland" and rightfully so, as he portrays one of...
Awards and nominations. 1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (shortlist) 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award; 1998 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize; 1999 Betty Trask Award; 1999 Somerset Maugham Award; Editions in print. 1998: New York: Knopf; Distributed by Random House, hardback, ISBN 978-0-375-40360-6 (English)
Dec 18, 2006 · Peter Morgan, Scotland. In 1970, callow Scottish medical-school grad Nicholas Garrigan goes to Uganda and, in a series of coincidences, befriends the country's president, Idi Amin. While Amin at...