11 Facts About Gran Torino

Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who starred in the film.

Gran Torino's aging neighborhood in Highland Park in Metro Detroit was formerly populated by working-class white families but has become filled with gang violence and poor southeast Asian immigrants, including Walt's next-door neighbors, the Vang Lor family.

Gran Torino was written by Nick Schenk and directed by Clint Eastwood.

Gran Torino learned how they had sided with the South Vietnamese forces and its US allies during the Vietnam War, only to wind up in refugee camps, at the mercy of North Vietnamese Communist forces, when US troops pulled out and the government forces were defeated.

Gran Torino recalled writing 25 pages within a single night in the bar.

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Gran Torino recalled asking the bartender, who was his friend, questions about the story's progress.

Gran Torino said "there is no real reason for us to be Hmong in the script" and that even though Walt Kowalski had fought in Korea, he had still confused the Hmong with Koreans and other Asian ethnic groups.

Chung argued that "Gran Torino might have been another "'white man saves the day' story" but that "What Eastwood has really created is not a story about the white man saving the minority but a critical examination of an iconic brand of white macho maleness that he played a significant part in creating.

Gran Torino was recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the Ten Best Films of 2008.

Gran Torino won an award for Best Actor from the National Board of Review, he was nominated for the Broadcast Film Critics Association and by the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards for Best Actor.

An original song from the film, "Gran Torino", was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.