what movie did marlee matlin won an academy award for?
Children of a Lesser God
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 In 2004 , she played the lead role in romantic comedy Win a Date with Tad Hamilton ! , opposite Topher Grace . The film was critically and financially unsuccessful . Also in 2004 , Bosworth depicted actress Sandra Dee in Beyond the Sea . The movie received mixed reception , and was a box office disappointment , though Bosworth received critical acclaim for her performance . The following year , Bosworth portrayed Chali , a Hare Krishna , in the film adaptation of Myla Goldberg 's novel Bee Season ( 2005 ) , about a dysfunctional Jewish family . She has appeared in several Revlon ads and ranked as number 60 in FHM 's " 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005 " list . For two years running , she has placed on the Maxim Hot 100 List – number 38 in 2005 and number 8 in 2006 . 

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 Since the film was not released in the United States until 2009 , it was eligible for the Academy Awards only the following year , where it was nominated for nine Academy Awards . Although the film had not recovered its budget by the time of the ceremony , it won six Oscars , including Best Picture , Best Director for Bigelow ( the first woman to win this award ) , and Best Original Screenplay for Boal . 

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 The film garnered fourteen Academy Awards nominations , tying the record set in 1950 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz 's All About Eve and won eleven : Best Picture ( the second film about the Titanic to win that award , after 1933 's Cavalcade ) , Best Director , Best Art Direction , Best Cinematography , Best Visual Effects , Best Film Editing , Best Costume Design , Best Sound ( Gary Rydstrom , Tom Johnson , Gary Summers , Mark Ulano ) , Best Sound Effects Editing , Best Original Dramatic Score , Best Original Song . Kate Winslet , Gloria Stuart and the make @-@ up artists were the three nominees that did not win . James Cameron 's original screenplay and Leonardo DiCaprio were not nominees . It was the second film to win eleven Academy Awards , after Ben @-@ Hur . The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King would also match this record in 2004 . 

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 The film 's studio , 20th Century Fox , mounted a campaign to have Shailene Woodley to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress , as well as the film 's screenplay , but neither was ultimately awarded . 

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 In June 2011 , Joby Harold was hired to rework the screenplay . By September , Warner approached Brad Pitt to star ; after he declined , the studio then approached Tom Cruise . Once Cruise accepted , the script changed the age of the leading role to fit the actor 's . In December 2011 , Cruise officially joined the film . Emily Blunt entered negotiations to star opposite Cruise in April 2012 . Screenwriting duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman also delivered a draft of their own . 
