The four major Academy Awards for "Million Dollar Baby," which took home best picture, actress, supporting actor and director on Sunday, reveal a yearning for a Hollywood that is swiftly vanishing. The Oscar votes for "Baby" celebrate the old-fashioned virtues that we have come to associate with the 74-year-old Clint Eastwood, from "High Plains Drifter" to the Oscar-winning "Unforgiven" and last year's "Mystic River": restrained, naturalistic and efficient storytelling, authentic acting and deep emotion. [...] through 25 features including "Baby," Eastwood has charted his own course through the Hollywood studio system, working on a modest scale with a loyal crew, deploying visual effects only when necessary, and keeping his filmmaking streamlined, even simple.

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