RIP!
Actor-director Richard Attenborough dies at 90
“Gandhi,” Attenborough’s 1982 film about the life of Mohandas Gandhi, the nonviolent spiritual and political leader of India’s fight for independence from British rule, won eight Academy Awards, including a best actor Oscar for Ben Kingsley. With “Gandhi,” Attenborough not only won the Oscar for best director but, as the film's producer, he also took home the best picture Oscar.
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