{"id":375,"date":"2010-05-18T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2010\/05\/18\/2-oscar-nominees-star-in-this-moving-tribute-to-nelson-mandela\/"},"modified":"2010-07-20T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T19:56:00","slug":"2-oscar-nominees-star-in-this-moving-tribute-to-nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2010\/2-oscar-nominees-star-in-this-moving-tribute-to-nelson-mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Oscar Nominees Star in This Moving Tribute to Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold Italic'; background: white\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold Italic'; background: white\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/images\/Blog\/Invictus.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold Italic'; background: white\"><em>Invictus.<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times; background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">He was imprisoned 27 years for his heroic fight against apartheid. So what does Nelson Mandela do after he is elected president of South Africa? He rejects revenge, forgives his oppressors and finds hope of national unity in an unlikely place: the rugby field. Clint Eastwood (the National Board of Review\u2019s 2009 Best Director choice) powerfully directs an uplifting film about a team and a people inspired to greatness. In a performance that won him NBR\u2019s Best Actor Award and an Oscar nomination, Morgan Freeman (Best Actor Oscar nominee)\u00a0portrays Mandela, who asks the national rugby team captain (Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Matt Damon) and his underdog squad to do the impossible and win the World Cup. One team, one country. The universal language of sports has never spoken so thrillingly as in Eastwood\u2019s \u201cInvictus.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"background: white\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">DVD. 133 min.; Recommended for ages 5-18.\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/font><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"background: white\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"background: white\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><font size=\"3\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"background: white\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" \/><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"3\"><font size=\"3\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"background: white\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invictus. He was imprisoned 27 years for his heroic fight against apartheid. So what does Nelson Mandela do after he is elected president of South Africa? He rejects revenge, forgives his oppressors and finds hope of national unity in an unlikely place: the rugby field. 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