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Oscars to Washintgon for best supporting actor and Francis for best cinematography, 1989
Second Battle of Fort Wagner
- In Second Battle of Fort Wagner
  …depicted in the 1989 film Glory.
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story of the 54th Massachusetts and Shaw
- In Robert Gould Shaw
  …recounted in the motion picture Glory (1989).
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Broderick
- In Matthew Broderick: Roles from the late 1980s and early ’90s and marriage to Sarah Jessica Parker
  …and the Civil War drama Glory (1989), about Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first all-Black volunteer military company in the U.S. He also starred in film adaptations of Biloxi Blues (1988) and Torch Song Trilogy (1988). The 1990s, he told The Guardian, were a struggle. “People associated me with…
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Freeman
- In Morgan Freeman
  …hard-hearted Civil War soldier in Glory (1989), and an aging gunslinger in Unforgiven (1992). He made his directorial debut with the anti-apartheid film Bopha! (1993). A third Oscar nomination came for his soulful turn as a convict in The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
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Washington
- In Denzel Washington: First years in Hollywood
  …the American Civil War film Glory (1989).
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