The movie “Tsotsi,” directed by Gavin Hood and based on the novel by Athol Fugard, is about a criminal’s redemption. It is about the transformation in a person and the faith that helped. “Tsotsi” was ...

FILE - Director Gavin Hood, left, and actor Presley Chweneyagae from the best foreign language film "Tsotsi" from South Africa, arrive for the 78th Academy Awards on March 5, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP ...

South Africans popped champagne corks and cheered their first Oscar win for the film “Tsotsi” on Monday, hoping the Hollywood accolade would spur a revival in local movie-making. Supporters watching ...

Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who came to international prominence as the star of the Academy Award-winning feature Tsotsi, has died. He was 40. “It is with profound sadness that we ...

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FAR FROM the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama “Tsotsi” resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. The 2005 Oscar winner in ...

Far from the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama "Tsotsi" resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. A foreign-language ...

South Africa, with its second nomination in as many years, won its first Academy Award for best foreign language film with “Tsotsi.” Writer-director Gavin Hood adapted Athol Fugard’s novel about a ...

JOHANNESBURG — Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who gained international recognition for his leading role in the 2005 film "Tsotsi", which won South Africa’s first ever Academy Award for ...

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