film a four out of four star rating and stated:How strange, a movie where a bad man becomes better, instead of the other way around. Tsotsi, a film of deep emotional power, considers a young killer whose cold eyes show no emotion, who kills unthinkingly, and who is transformed by the helplessness of a baby. He didn't mean to kidnap the baby, but now that he has it, it looks at him with trust and need, and he is powerless before eyes more demanding than his own. [...] How the story develops is for you to discover. I was surprised to find that it leads toward hope instead of despair; why does fiction so often assume defeat is our destiny?Tsotsi won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006. Gavin Hood was also nominated for the 2005 Non-European Film – Prix Screen International at the European Film Awards for his work on the film. Soundtrack See also List of South African films Cinema of South Africa References External links Interview with Tsotsi composers Paul Hepker and Mark Kilian 2005 films Afrikaans-language films Sotho-language films Tsotsitaal-language films Zulu-language films Tswana-language films Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award winners 2005 crime drama films Films about hijackings South African crime drama films Films directed by Gavin Hood Films set in South Africa Hood films English-language South African films 2000s American films 2005 multilingual films South African multilingual films