Clint Eastwood | |
Job | Actor |
Top Roles | Blondie, Marshal Jed Cooper, Schaffer, Jonesey, Seaman |
Top Genres | Western, Drama, Action, War, Adventure, Comedy |
Top Topics | World War II, Spaghetti Western, Period Piece |
Top Collaborators | Don Siegel (Director), Sergio Leone (Director), John Agar, Bill McKinney |
Shares birthday with | Don Ameche, Alida Valli, Jim Hutton see more.. |
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
Year | Award | Film name | Role | Result |
1992 | Best Actor | Unforgiven (1992) | Bill Munny | Nominated |
1992 | Best Director | Unforgiven (1992) | N/A | Won |
2003 | Best Director | Mystic River (2003) | N/A | Nominated |
2004 | Best Actor | Million Dollar Baby | Frankie Dunn | Nominated |
2004 | Best Director | Million Dollar Baby | N/A | Won |
2006 | Best Director | Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) | N/A | Nominated |
Academy Awards (Honorary Oscars)
Year | Award | Description |
1994 | IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD | Clint Eastwood |
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 ButtonMillion 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 ButtonThe 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 ButtonAbsolute 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 ButtonA 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:
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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