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The Western with the Most Oscar in History Is Not Clint Eastwood or John Wayne but Kevin Costner.

In the collective imagination, the names of Clint Eastwood and John Wayne are synonymous with western, lone gunmen and great plains of classical cinema. However, the greatest milestone of this genre in the Oscar Awards does not belong to any of them. It was Kevin Costner, with Dancing with Wolves, who broke all the schemes and took away the greatest amount of statuettes ever given to a Western film, leaving an indelible footprint both in industr…
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In the collective imagination, the names of Clint Eastwood and John Wayne are synonymous with western, lone gunmen and great plains of classical cinema. However, the greatest milestone of this genre in the Oscar Awards does not belong to any of them. It was Kevin Costner, with Dancing with Wolves, who broke all the schemes and took away the greatest amount of statuettes ever given to a Western film, leaving an indelible footprint both in industr…

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periodistadigital.com broke the news in on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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