The film had 7 nominations, with 3 of the nominations referring to star/producer/director Eastwood, resulting in four awards including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, as well as Best Supporting Actor. Besides, the two performance awards showed up the second year running that a Clint Eastwood picture received 2 of the 4 acting Oscars (Sean Penn and Tim Robbins won acting Oscars for Mystic River) - in 6 of the last 10 years, and the Best Picture winners with a central character dying at the end.
Hilary Swank confessed that she nearly died when shooting the film.
The actress said she developed possibly fatal blood poisoning when undergoing a strict training program for Million Dollar Baby. Swank said that she first received the infection when popped blebs in the bathtub. Actually, the poison run into her blood stream and she noticed red streaks marks going to her leg when it spread. She did not pop them after that. For some time the actress even couldn't walk. Her doctor told her that if it reached her heart then that'd be it. But now we can see the results, it wasn't for nothing! © 2012 Created by Owen Farrington.
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