This article is about the 2004 film. For other uses, see Million Dollar Baby (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Billion Dollar Baby or Million Dollar Maybe.
Million Dollar Baby
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Clint Eastwood
Screenplay by
Paul Haggis
Based on
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole
Produced by
Clint Eastwood
Albert S. Ruddy
Tom Rosenberg
Paul Haggis
Starring
Clint Eastwood
Hilary Swank
Morgan Freeman
Narrated by
Morgan Freeman
Cinematography
Tom Stern
Edited by
Joel Cox
Music by
Clint Eastwood
Production companies
Lakeshore Entertainment
Malpaso Productions
Ruddy Morgan
Epsilon Motion Pictures
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures (North America) Lakeshore International (international)
Release dates
December 5, 2004 (2004-12-05) (New York)
December 15, 2004 (2004-12-15) (United States)
Running time
132 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$30 million[1][2]
Box office
$216.8 million[3]
Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on stories from the 2000 collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd. It also stars Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. The film follows Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald (Swank), an underdog amateur boxer who is helped by an underappreciated boxing trainer (Eastwood) to achieve her dream of becoming a professional.
Million Dollar Baby was theatrically released on December 15, 2004, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received critical acclaim and grossed $216.8 million worldwide. The film garnered seven nominations at the 77th Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (for Swank), and Best Supporting Actor (for Freeman). It has since been cited as one of the best films of the 2000s, the 21st century and of all-time.[4][5]
^Eliot 2009, p. 309.
^Hughes 2009, p. 156.
^Cite error: The named reference boxofficemojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Dargis, Manohla; Scott, A.O. (June 9, 2017). "The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century...So Far". The New York Times. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
^"We Ranked the 100 Best Movies of All Time!". Parade. October 6, 2023.
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