Results: A Tribute to Donald Sutherland ** Winner of 24 Awards
Published on 08/31/2025
Sutherland was married three times, most recently to Francine Racette, with whom he shared 52 years of marriage. He had five children, including actor Kiefer Sutherland, who also became a successful actor.
Sutherland was known for his anti-war stance and used his celebrity to speak out against conflict. He was a proud Canadian and was honored with a star on both Canada's Walk of Fame and Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
In 2017, he received an Honorary Academy Award for his contributions to cinema.

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Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener, Stanley's (Zakes Mokae's) son, Jonathan (Bekhithemba Mpofu), is brutally beaten up by the Police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation. Winner of 2 Awards, have you seen "A Dry White Season"?
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Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren) The film is about the life and death of Norman Bethune, a Canadian physician who served as a combat surgeon during the Chinese Civil War. 1991 Genie Winner: Best Achievement in Costume Design. Have you ..?
seen the film "Bethune: The Making of a Hero"?
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Read the book "Norman Bethune"
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On November 22, 1963, president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby, supposedly avenging the president's death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes, but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people, Garrison conducts his own investigation, bringing about backlash from powerful government and political figures. Winner of 18 Awards including 2 Oscars, have you seen "JFK"?
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