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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Angelina Jolie says it would mean a "great deal" to her if her new movie 'Unbroken' won her an Oscar.

    The Hollywood star is very proud of the film she has directed, which is about the life of World War II hero Louis 'Louie' Zamperini, a former American Olympic track star who survives a plane crash in the Pacific, and after being discovered floating on a raft after 47 days is made a prisoner of war by Japan and spends two-and-a-half years being tortured whilst incarcerated.


    Angelina admits it meant a lot to her to be able to bring Zamperini's story to the big screen and therefore she would cherish any Oscar win even more than her first Academy Award 14 years ago for 'Girl, Interrupted'.

    Speaking at the UK premiere of the film at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on Tuesday night (25.11.14), she said: "I love directing and most of all I felt very responsible to this story and this man's life."

    When asked what Oscar success would mean, she replied: "It would mean a great deal to me, for sure."

    The 39-year-old actress watched the film with her husband Brad Pitt and some of their six children - Maddox, 13, Pax, 10, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, eight, and six-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne - and insists the message of forgiveness in the story was an important one for her kids to receive.

    She said: "This man's life is about forgiveness and unity. My own children have watched it and they walked out of it and thought he was a hero."

    British actor Jack O'Connell portrays Zamperini, while Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund and Jai Courtney also appear.

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