Clint Eastwood Overview:

Actor, Clint Eastwood, was born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. on May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, CA. As of December 2023, Clint Eastwood was 93 years old.

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Clint Eastwood was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning two for Best Director for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby in 1992 and 2004 respectively. He also won one Honorary Award in 1994 Clint Eastwood .

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1992Best ActorUnforgiven (1992)Bill MunnyNominated
1992Best DirectorUnforgiven (1992)N/AWon
2003Best DirectorMystic River (2003)N/ANominated
2004Best ActorMillion Dollar BabyFrankie DunnNominated
2004Best DirectorMillion Dollar BabyN/AWon
2006Best DirectorLetters from Iwo Jima (2006)N/ANominated

Academy Awards (Honorary Oscars)

YearAwardDescription
1994IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARDClint Eastwood

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Clint Eastwood's handprints and footprints were 'set in stone' at Grauman's Chinese Theater during imprint ceremony #151 on Aug 21, 1984.

BlogHub Articles:

in Hang 'Em High

By Rick29 on Aug 24, 2020 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

's first American film after achieving international stardom in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy was predictably a Western. What is surprising is that Eastwood chose to ignore the qualities that made Leone's Western pictures unique. I wouldn't call Hang 'Em High (1968) conventional--it's... Read full article


Million Dollar Baby (2004, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 2, 2017 From The Stop Button

Million Dollar Baby has a somewhat significant plot twist. Well, it actually has a couple of them. And neither comes with much foreshadowing. A little in Paul Haggis?s script, which director Eastwood visualizes appropriately, but they?re in the background. The film has its larger than life story to ... Read full article


The Bridges of Madison County (1995, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on May 12, 2017 From The Stop Button

The Bridges of Madison County is many things, but it?s definitely an adaptation of a best-selling novel. Thanks to director Eastwood, it?s not a cheap adaptation of a best-selling novel, but it?s still an adaptation. There?s still a frame. No matter how much Eastwood deglamorizes it, no matter how w... Read full article


Absolute Power (1997, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 16, 2017 From The Stop Button

Absolute Power has a number of narrative issues. Well, less narrative issues and more narrative slights. As the film enters the third act, director Eastwood and screenwriter William Goldman decide the audience has gotten enough out of the movie and it?s time to wrap things up. It?s a shame because t... Read full article


A Perfect World (1993, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 10, 2016 From The Stop Button

A Perfect World runs almost two hours and twenty minutes (it does with end credits). The last act of the film is a seventeen or so minute showdown in real time. Until that point in the film, John Lee Hancock’s script flirts with occasional sequences in real time, but there’s a lot of sum... Read full article


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Clint Eastwood Quotes:

Blondie: Every gun makes its own tune.


Coogan: Put your pants on, Chief!


[after rescuing Cooper from being lynched]
Marshal Dave Bliss: Some people call this hell, but you're still in Oklahoma Territory... Save your breath. I don't know who hung you or why, but if you're innocent, the judge will set you free. And if you're not, we'll have to take the trouble to hanging you again.


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Clint Eastwood was a licensed pilot and often flew his helicopter to the studios to avoid traffic.

A keen golfer, Clint Eastwood owns the Tehama Golf Club, is an investor of the world-famous Pebble Beach Golf Links, and donates his time every year to charitable causes at major tournaments.

Eastwood owns the Mission Ranch Hotel and Restaurant, also located in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

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