Clint Eastwood is an American film actor, director, producer, and composer. 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 starring in Rawhide. His role in the eight-season series led to his leading roles in A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.[1] Eastwood has acted in 66 films, including Hang 'Em High, Escape from Alcatraz, The Bridges of Madison County, and Gran Torino. Eastwood's started directing in 1971, and in 1982, his debut as a producer began with two films, Firefox and Honkytonk Man. Eastwood also has contributed music to his films, either through performing, writing, or composing. He has appeared mainly in western, action, comedy, and drama films.[2][3]
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Eastwood has received multiple awards and nominations for his work in the films Unforgiven, Mystic River, and Million Dollar Baby, among others. These awards include Academy Awards, Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and People's Choice Awards.
History
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On August 22, 1984, Eastwood was honored at a ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre to record his hand and footprints in cement.[4] 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".[5]: 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.[5]: 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.[8][9] 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".[10] 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."[11] Eastwood received the 2008 Best Actor award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures for his performance in Gran Torino.[12] 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.[13]
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."[14]
Major associations
edit| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Best Picture | Unforgiven | Won | [15][16] |
| Best Director | Won | [17][15] | ||
| Best Actor | Nominated | [18] | ||
| 2004 | Best Picture | Mystic River | Nominated | [19] |
| Best Director | Nominated | [19] | ||
| 2005 | Best Picture | Million Dollar Baby | Won | [20] |
| Best Director | Won | [20] | ||
| Best Actor | Nominated | [21] | ||
| 2007 | Best Picture | Letters from Iwo Jima | Nominated | [22] |
| Best Director | Nominated | [22] | ||
| 2015 | Best Picture | American Sniper | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Best Film | Unforgiven | Nominated | [23] |
| Best Direction | Nominated | [23] | ||
| 2009 | Changeling | Nominated | [24] |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Best Director – Motion Picture | Bird | Won | [25] |
| 1993 | Unforgiven | Won | ||
| 2004 | Mystic River | Nominated | ||
| 2005 | Best Original Score – Motion Picture | Million Dollar Baby | Nominated | |
| Best Director – Motion Picture | Won | |||
| 2007 | Flags of Our Fathers | Nominated | ||
| Best Foreign Language Film | Letters from Iwo Jima | Won | ||
| Best Director – Motion Picture | Nominated | |||
| 2008 | Best Original Score – Motion Picture | Grace Is Gone | Nominated | |
| Best Original Song – Motion Picture | Nominated | |||
| 2009 | Best Original Score – Motion Picture | Changeling | Nominated | |
| Best Original Song – Motion Picture | Gran Torino | Nominated | ||
| 2010 | Best Director – Motion Picture | Invictus | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Best Score Soundtrack Album Visual Media | Million Dollar Baby | Nominated | [26] |
Guild awards
edit| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Unforgiven | Won | |
| 2004 | Mystic River | Nominated | ||
| 2005 | Million Dollar Baby | Won | ||
| 2014 | American Sniper | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in International Film | Million Dollar Baby | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award | Mystic River | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Million Dollar Baby | Nominated |
Miscellaneous awards
edit| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Best Foreign Feature Film | Flags of Our Father | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Best Foreign Film | Mystic River | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Favorite Action Team | Space Cowboys | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Best Foreign Language Film | The Bridges of Madison County | Won | |
| 2005 | Mystic River | Won | ||
| 2006 | Million Dollar Baby | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Best American Film | Mystic River | Nominated | |
| 2008 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Best Foreign Film | Bird | Nominated | |
| 1996 | The Bridges of Madison County | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | Mystic River | Won | ||
| 2006 | Million Dollar Baby | Won | ||
| 2010 | Gran Torino | Won | ||
| 2011 | Invictus | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Most Valuable Film of the Year | Flags of our Fathers | Won | [27] |
| 2007 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Best Foreign Film | Mystic River | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Million Dollar Baby | Won | ||
| 2007 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Nominated | ||
| 2009 | Gran Torino | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | European Film Award | Mystic River | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Best Foreign Language Film | Unforgiven | Won | |
| 2006 | Flags of Our Fathers | Won |
Nastro d'Argento
edit| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Best Director – Foreign Film | Million Dollar Baby | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Foreign Film | Unforgiven | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Bridges of Madison County | Nominated | ||
| 2003 | Mystic River | Nominated | ||
| 2006 | Million Dollar Baby | Won | ||
| 2007 | Flags of Our Fathers | Won | ||
| 2008 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Won | ||
| 2010 | Gran Torino | Won | ||
| 2011 | Invictus | Nominated | ||
| 2015 | Jersey Boys | Nominated | ||
| 2016 | American Sniper | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Best Foreign Language Film | Unforgiven | Won | |
| 1996 | Best Foreign Language Film Director | The Bridges of Madison County | Won | |
| 2001 | Best Foreign Language Film | Space Cowboys | Won | |
| 2005 | Mystic River | Won | ||
| Readers' Choice Award | Won | |||
| 2006 | Best Foreign Language Film | Million Dollar Baby | Won | |
| Best Foreign Language Film Director | Won | |||
| Readers' Choice Award | Won | |||
| 2007 | Best Foreign Language Film | Flags of Our Fathers | Won | |
| Best Foreign Language Film Director | Won | |||
| Readers' Choice Award | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Best Foreign Language Film | Unforgiven | Won | |
| 1996 | Readers' Choice Award | The Bridges of Madison County | Won | |
| 2001 | Mainichi Film Concours | Space Cowboys | Won | |
| 2005 | Mystic River | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Best Actor | Gran Torino | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Favorite Motion Picture Actor | Himself | Won | |
| 1984 | Won | |||
| 1985 | Won | |||
| 1987 | Won | |||
| 1988 | Favorite All-Time Motion Picture Star | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Best American Film | Mystic River | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Million Dollar Baby | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Best Director | Mystic River | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Best Original Score | Flags of Our Fathers | Nominated | |
| Best Director | Won | |||
| 2007 | Best Original Song | Grace Is Gone | Won |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Best Actor | Space Cowboys | Nominated | [15] |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| 2009 | Changeling | Nominated | ||
| Best Music | Nominated |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Fictional Television Drama | Rawhide | Won | |
| 1962 | Won | |||
| 1964 | Won | |||
| 1993 | Theatrical Motion Picture | Unforgiven | Won |
Critics associations
edit| Argentine Film Critics Association Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 2004 | Mystic River | Silver Condor | Nominated | Best Foreign Feature Film |
| 2008 | Letters from Iwo Jima | |||
| Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 2004 | Mystic River | Critics Choice Award | Nominated | Best Composer |
| Best Director | ||||
| 2005 | Million Dollar Baby | Best Director[28] | ||
| Best Picture[28] | ||||
| 2007 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Best Director | ||
| 2008 | Grace Is Gone | Best Composer | ||
| 2009 | Gran Torino | Best Actor | ||
| Changeling | Best Composer | |||
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 2004 | Mystic River | CFCA Award | Nominated | Best Director |
| Million Dollar Baby | Won | |||
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Nominated | ||
| 2008 | Gran Torino | Best Actor | ||
| Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 2005 | Million Dollar Baby | FCCA Award | Won | Best Foreign Film |
| London Film Critics' Circle Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 2004 | Mystic River | ALFS Award | Won | Director of the Year |
| Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | LAFCA Award | Won | Best Actor |
| Best Director[25] | ||||
| National Society of Film Critics Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 1993 | Unforgiven[25] | NSFC Award | Won | Best Director |
| 2004 | Mystic River | |||
| New York Film Critics Circle Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | NYFCC Award | Won | Best Director |
| Online Film Critics Society Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 2004 | Mystic River | OFCS Award | Nominated | Best Director |
| 2005 | Million Dollar Baby | |||
| San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | SDFCS Award | Won | Best Director |
| Best Original Score | ||||
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Best Director | ||
| Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | VFCC Award | Won | Best Director |
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | Category |
| 2003 | Mystic River | WAFCA Award | Nominated | Best Director |
| 2009 | Invictus | |||
Film festivals
edit| Cannes Film Festival | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Award | Result | |
| 1985 | Pale Rider | Golden Palm | Nominated[15] | |
| 1988 | Bird | |||
| 1990 | White Hunter Black Heart | |||
| 2003 | Mystic River | Nominated | ||
| Golden Coach | Won | |||
| 2008 | Changeling | Golden Palm | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Honorary Golden Palm | Won | ||
Special awards
edit| Year | Ceremony | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Golden Globes | Henrietta Award |
| 1980 | American Movie Awards | Special Marquee |
| American Academy of Achievement | Golden Plate Award[29] | |
| 1982 | ShoWest Convention | Special Award: Male Star of the Decade |
| 1985 | Golden Apple Awards | Golden Apple Award – Star of the Year |
| 1988 | Golden Globes | Cecil B. DeMille Award[25] |
| 1991 | Hasty Pudding Theatricals | Man of the Year[25] |
| 1993 | Golden Boot Awards | Golden Boot |
| ShoWest Convention | ShoWest Award – Director of the Year[25] | |
| 1995 | Academy Awards | Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award[15] |
| Hamburg Film Festival | Douglas Sirk Award[25] | |
| 1996 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | ASCAP Award (Top Box Office Films) |
| American Film Institute | Life Achievement Award | |
| Film Society of Lincoln Center | Gala Tribute[25] | |
| 1998 | César Awards | Honorary César[15] |
| PGA Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award in Motion Pictures[25] | |
| 1999 | National Board of Review | Career Achievement Award[25] |
| 2000 | Venice Film Festival | Career Golden Lion[25] |
| Kennedy Center Honors | Contributions to American culture[30] | |
| 2001 | Art Directors Guild | Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award[25] |
| San Francisco International Film Festival | Akira Kurosawa Award[25] | |
| 2002 | Chicago International Film Festival | Career Achievement Award |
| 2003 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Life Achievement Award |
| 2004 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | Opus Award |
| Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award | |
| National Board of Review | Special Achievement Award | |
| 2006 | BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards | Britannia Award |
| Directors Guild of America Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award | |
| Producers Guild of America Awards | Milestone Award | |
| BAFTA Awards | Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film[23] | |
| 2007 | Los Angeles Film Festival | Spirit of Independence Award |
| 2007 | Motion Picture Sound Editors | Filmmaker's Award |
| 2008 | Cannes Film Festival | Special Award |
| Hollywood Film Festival | Director of the Year | |
| 2009 | Golden Camera | Golden Camera for Lifetime Achievement |
| 2009 | National Endowment for the Arts | National Medal of Arts[31] |
| 2015 | Navy SEAL Foundation | Patriot Award[32] |
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