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Warren Beatty -A Life Well Scripted
Warren Beatty -A Life Well Scripted
Warren Beatty -A Life Well Scripted
Warren Beatty -A Life Well Scripted
Warren Beatty -A Life Well Scripted
Henry Warren Beatty; born March 30, mixing and scoring. He plain works to say ‘Waddya want, to produce the picture anarchist Emma Goldman), and Vittorio
1937) is an American actor and filmmaker harder than anyone else I have ever as well?’ And I used to say that I supposed I Storaro won for Best Cinematography.
whose career spans over six decades. He seen.” did.” Beatty won the Golden Globe Award for
has been nominated for fifteen Academy Early life Education Best Director.
Awards, including four for Best Actor, Henry Warren Beaty was born March Beatty was a star football player in high Under his second production company,
four for Best Picture, two for Best 30, 1937, in Richmond, Virginia. Beatty’s school and turned down 10 scholarships in Mulholland Productions, Beatty next
Director, three for Original Screenplay, older sister is the actress, dancer and order to study liberal arts and eventually produced, directed and played the title
and one for Adapted Screenplay – writer Shirley MacLaine. Beatty became enrolled in acting school. role of comic strip-based detective Dick
winning Best Director for Reds (1981). interested in movies before his teens, Military service Tracy in the 1990 film of the same name.
Beatty is one of only two people (Orson when he often accompanied his sister to Beatty enlisted in the California Air The film received positive reviews and
Welles being the other) to have been theaters. One film that had an important National Guard on February 11, 1960 under was one of the highest-grossing films of
nominated for acting in, directing, early influence on him was The his original name Henry W. Beaty. On the year. It received seven Academy
writing, and producing the same film, Philadelphia Story (1940), which he saw January 1, 1961, he was given a Award nominations, winning three
and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can when it was re-released in the 1950s. He dishonorable discharge from the Air for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup,
Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director), noticed a strong resemblance between National Guard and the United States Air and Best Original Song.It also received
and again with Reds. its star, Katharine Hepburn, and his Force Reserve. This made him ineligible for four Golden Globe Award nominations,
Eight of the films he has produced have mother, in both appearance and the draft and any military service. including Best Motion Picture.
earned 53 Academy nominations, and in personality, saying that they Career In 1991, he produced and starred as the
1999, he was awarded the Academy’s symbolized “perpetual At age 29, Beatty produced and acted real-life gangster Bugsy Siegel in the
highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg integrity.”Another film that affected in Bonnie and Clyde, which would be critically and commercially
Award. Beatty has been nominated for him was Love Affair (1939), which released in 1967. Bonnie and Clyde went on acclaimed Bugsy, directed by Barry
eighteen Golden Globe Awards, winning starred one of his favorite to be a critical and commercial success, Levinson, which was nominated for ten
six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. actors, Charles Boyer.He found it despite the early misgivings by studio Academy Awards, including Best Picture
DeMille Award, which he was honored “deeply moving,” and recalls that “This head Jack Warner, who put up the and Best Actor; it later won two of the
with in 2007. Among his Golden Globe- is a movie I always wanted to production money. The film was awards for Best Art Direction and Best
nominated films are Splendor in the make.” He did remake Love Affair in nominated for ten Academy Awards, Costume Design. Beatty has stated that he
Grass (1961), his screen debut, and Bonnie 1994, in which he starred including Best Picture and Best Actor, and and Annette Bening were very
and Clyde (1967), Shampoo (1975), alongside Annette Bening and seven Golden Globe Awards, including Best professional during the filming, after
Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), Katharine Hepburn. Picture and Best Actor. which, what has turned out to be a
Dick Tracy (1990), Bugsy (1991), MacLaine noted—”he’s more In 1978, Beatty directed, produced, wrote tremendous love affair.
Bulworth (1998) and Rules Don’t comfortable behind the camera ... He’s and acted in Heaven Can Wait (1978) He knew he wanted to marry her right
Apply (2016), all of which he also in the total-control aspect. He has to (sharing co-directing credit with Buck away. He is 22 years older than Bening,
produced. have control over everything.” Beatty Henry). The film was nominated for nine however, she was always interested in
Director and collaborator Arthur doesn’t deny that need; in speaking Academy Awards, including Best Picture, older men. Although, he is famous for
Penn described Beatty as “the perfect about his earliest parts, he said “When I Director, Actor, and Adapted Screenplay. It womanizing…Beatty reports that his life
producer”, adding, “He makes everyone acted in films I used to come with also won three Golden Globe Awards, was structured to avoid divorce, not avoid
demand the best of themselves. Warren suggestions about the script, the including Best Motion Picture and Best marriage. It is his contention he was
stays with a picture through editing, lighting, the wardrobe, and people used Actor. waiting for the perfect match. Bening is
Beatty’s next film was Reds (1981), herself and not phony or fake in the light
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