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Warren Beatty
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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 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 DirectorReds

Special and Honorary Awards[]

72nd Academy Awards, 1999
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Nominations[]

40th Academy Awards, 1967
Best ActorBonnie and Clyde
Best PictureBonnie and Clyde
48th Academy Awards, 1975
Best Original ScreenplayShampoo (shared with Robert Towne)
51st Academy Awards, 1978
Best ActorHeaven Can Wait
Best Adapted ScreenplayHeaven Can Wait (shared with Elaine May)
Best DirectorHeaven Can Wait (shared with Buck Henry)
Best PictureHeaven Can Wait
54th Academy Awards, 1981
Best ActorReds (shared with Trevor Griffiths)
Best DirectorReds
Best Original ScreenplayReds
Best PictureReds
64th Academy Awards, 1991
Best ActorBugsy
Best PictureBugsy (shared with Mark Johnson and Barry Levinson)
71st Academy Awards, 1998
Best Original ScreenplayBulworth (shared with Jeremy Pikser)

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