New Zealand screenwriter Fran Walsh made history by winning three Oscars in a single evening for her work on The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Helen Hunt played a role that was older than her by ten years. She excelled as a wisecracking, lonely single mother whose son is asthmatic, who becomes Jack Nicholson’s love interest. Luck She got the role after Holly Hunter balked over the size of her paycheck. Share this:

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