In 2008, a movie script kept Angelina Jolie up at night. Months later, she earned an Oscar nomination

Angelina Jolie initially considered leaving Clint Eastwood’s 2008 drama *Changeling* because its story about a missing child kept her awake at night. She took the role of Christine Collins, and her performance earned an Academy Award nomination.

The film is based on a true story set in the 1920s, in which Collins is reunited with the wrong child and then dismissed as delusional. Eastwood agreed to direct the script the day he read it; Jolie won the role ahead of Hilary Swank and Reese Witherspoon, and the film more than doubled its budget at the box office.