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List of awards and nominations received by Clint Eastwood
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Clint Eastwood is an American film actor, director, producer, and composer. He also has contributed music to his films, either through performing, writing, or composing. He has appeared mainly in western, action, comedy, and drama films.[1][2] Over his career, he has received several accolades including four Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards, a Grammy Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. He has been honored numerous prizes such as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Honorary César in 1998, a Honorary Golden Lion in 2000, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award in 2006, the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2008, and the National Medal of Arts in 2009.
After beginning his acting career primarily with small uncredited film roles and television appearances, his career has spanned more than 60 years in both television and film productions. Eastwood appeared in several television series, most notably appearing on Rawhide. His role in the eight-season series led to his leading roles in the spaghetti western trilogy A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), which weren't released in the United States until 1967/68.[3] Eastwood has played leading roles in 48 films, including the revisionist western Hang 'Em High (1968), the prison drama Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the romance drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995), and the drama Gran Torino (2008). Eastwood's started directing in 1971, and in 1982, his debut as a producer began with two films, the action thriller Firefox (1982) and the musical western Honkytonk Man (1982).
Eastwood directed the biographical musical drama Bird (1988) for which he was first nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He gained acclaim for directing the revisionist Western Unforgiven (1992) for which he received the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. For the neo-noir mystery thriller Mystic River (2003), he earned Academy Award nominations for Picture and Director and a Golden Globe Award nomination for Director. For the sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004) he won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director with a nomination for his first Academy Award for Best Actor. The film also earned him a win for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director as well as nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.
He directed the American World War II drama Flags of Our Fathers (2005), and the Japanese World War II drama Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), the later of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. He directed the mystery crime drama Changeling (2008) for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. He earned critical attention for directing and playing a grumpy widow and Korean War veteran in the drama Gran Torino (2008) for which he also served as the film's composer earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. He directed the docudrama sports film Invictus (2009) earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
After an 8 year absence from the Academy Awards he returned with the biographical war drama American Sniper (2014) for which he was nominated as a producer for the Academy Award for Best Picture. For the film he also received the National Board of Review Award for Best Director as well as a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film.
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On August 21, 1984, Eastwood was honored at a ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre to record his hand and footprints in cement. In May 1994, Eastwood was presented with France's medal of Comandeur de L' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Jeanne Moreau commented, "Its remarkable that a man so important in European cinema has found the time to come here and spend twelve days watching movies with us".[4]: 491 The jury included two people Eastwood knew well: Catherine Deneuve, with whom he had an affair back in the mid-1960s, and Lalo Schifrin, who had composed most of the jazz tracks to his Dirty Harry films.[4]: 491 Eastwood received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1996 and received an honorary degree from AFI in 2009. Eastwood is one of only two people to have been twice nominated for Best Actor and Best Director for the same film (Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby) the other being Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait and Reds). Along with Beatty, Robert Redford, Richard Attenborough, Kevin Costner, and Mel Gibson, he is one of the few directors best known as an actor to win an Academy Award for directing. On February 27, 2005, at age 74, he became one of only three living directors (along with Miloš Forman and Francis Ford Coppola) to have directed two Best Picture winners. He is also, at age 74, the oldest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Director. Eastwood has also directed five actors in Academy Award–winning performances: Gene Hackman in Unforgiven, Tim Robbins and Sean Penn in Mystic River, and Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby.
I will never win an Oscar and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, because I make too much money for those old farts in the Academy. Thirdly, and most importantly, because I don't give a fuck.
Eastwood has received numerous other awards, including a Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. He received an honorary degree from University of the Pacific in 2006, and an honorary degree from University of Southern California in 2007. In 1995 he received the honorary Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in film producing.[7] In 2006, he received a nomination for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Million Dollar Baby. In 2007, Eastwood was the first recipient of the Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award, an annual award presented by the MPAA to individuals in the motion picture industry whose work has reached out positively and respectfully to the world. He received the award for his work on the 2006 films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.
On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Eastwood into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts. In early 2007, Eastwood was presented with the highest civilian distinction in France, Légion d'honneur, at a ceremony in Paris. French President Jacques Chirac told Eastwood that he embodied "the best of Hollywood".[8] On November 13, 2009, Clint Eastwood was made French Legion of Honor Commander, which represents the third highest of five classes associated with this award.
On May 27, 2007, Eastwood received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Southern California. On September 22, 2007, Eastwood was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the Berklee College of Music at the Monterey Jazz Festival, on which he serves as an active board member. Upon receiving the award he gave a speech, claiming, "It's one of the great honors I'll cherish in this lifetime."[9] Eastwood received the 2008 Best Actor award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures for his performance in Gran Torino.[10] On April 29, 2009, the Japanese government announced that Eastwood was to receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, which represents the third highest of eight classes associated with this award.[11]
In October 2009, he was honored by the Lumière Award (in honor of the Lumière Brothers, inventors of the Cinematography) during the first edition of the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, France. This award honors his entire career and his major contribution to the 7th Art. In February 2010, Eastwood was recognized by President Barack Obama with an arts and humanities award. Obama called Eastwood's films "essays in individuality, hard truths and the essence of what it means to be American."[12]
Eastwood does not have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[13]
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Under Eastwood's direction, these actors received Academy Award nominations and wins for their performances in these respective roles.
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