| Warren Beatty | |
|---|---|
 Beatty at the 54th Academy Awards | |
| 14 Nominations / 2 Wins | |
| Role | Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| Born | March 30, 1937 |
| Richmond, Virginia, USA | |
Warren Beatty is an Academy Award-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981). Beatty is the first and only person to have been twice nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film – first with Heaven Can Wait (1978), which was co-written by Elaine May and co-directed by Buck Henry, and again with Reds, which he co-wrote with Trevor Griffiths. In 1999, he was awarded the Academy's highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Beatty has been nominated for eighteen Golden Globe Awards, winning six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which he was honored with in 2007. Arthur Penn, who directed Bonnie and Clyde, described Beatty as "the perfect producer", adding, "He makes everyone demand the best of themselves. Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing and scoring. He plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen." Titles to his credit, include; Splendor in the Grass (1961), The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Shampoo (1975), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), Ishtar (1987), Dick Tracy (1990), Bugsy (1991), and Bulworth (1998).
Wins[]
- 54th Academy Awards, 1981
- Best Director — Reds
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Nominations[]
- 40th Academy Awards, 1967
- Best Actor — Bonnie and Clyde
- Best Picture — Bonnie and Clyde
- 48th Academy Awards, 1975
- Best Original Screenplay — Shampoo (shared with Robert Towne)
- 51st Academy Awards, 1978
- Best Actor — Heaven Can Wait
- Best Adapted Screenplay — Heaven Can Wait (shared with Elaine May)
- Best Director — Heaven Can Wait (shared with Buck Henry)
- Best Picture — Heaven Can Wait
- 54th Academy Awards, 1981
- Best Actor — Reds (shared with Trevor Griffiths)
- Best Director — Reds
- Best Original Screenplay — Reds
- Best Picture — Reds
- 64th Academy Awards, 1991
- Best Actor — Bugsy
- Best Picture — Bugsy (shared with Mark Johnson and Barry Levinson)
- 71st Academy Awards, 1998
- Best Original Screenplay — Bulworth (shared with Jeremy Pikser)
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