Clint Eastwood

See also: Eastwood

Clint Eastwood is a Acteur, Réalisateur, producing Compositeur and American, born on May 31st, 1930 with San Francisco, California.

Biography

The actor

Born from a countable father, Clint Eastwood carries out a life of nomad. It makes odd jobs and leaves to the army where it makes decisive meetings and obtains work at Universal. Its first appearance off goes back to 1955 in Revenge the Creature ( the Revenge of the creature ). It turns in other films but nobody notices it.

It begins really its career with a role of Cow-boy in Rawhide , a Televised series. It becomes popular thanks to Sergio Leone and its trilogy For a handle of dollars , And for some dollars moreover and the Good, the Rough one and the Gangster . It creates its own production company, Malpaso. It meets the realizer Don Siegel with whom it sympathizes and makes five films whose The Beguiled ( the Preys ) turned into 1970 which brings to him to a recognition of criticisms like the Escaped prisoner of Alcatraz in 1979, and with which it gives rise to the Harry Inspector.

In 1969, it is finally recognized with Hollywood with Where Eagles Dare ( When the eagles attack ). This recognition allows him, in 1971 to carry out its first film: Play Misty for Me ( a shiver in the night ). It at that time turns discussed the Inspecteur Harry , in which Siegel lets it be tested with the realization at the time of a scene. Eastwood, victim of its character récurrrent of violent cop is shown of Fascism, machism and racism. Thus its following films are scorned by the critic and some are commercial failures.

The realizer

He begins the realization in 1971 with a shiver in the night ( Play Misty for me ) under the influence of Gift Siegel, which will in addition make a small appearance in this film (he plays the part of Murphy there). He continues to carry out and play in his films like the Man of the High Plains ( High Plains Drifter ) and Josey Wales outlaw ( The Outlaw Josey Wales ), while he continues his career of actor in action films. In 1982, Honkytonk Man mark a change in its career: Eastwood becomes a realizer with whole share, he gives up little by little his role of actor not to play more but in the films which he carries out. The recognition arrives, Pale To wrinkle is projected with the Cannes festival 1985 and Jean-Luc Godard dedicates to him his film Détective .

He played six recoveries with his partner of the time, Sondra Locke.

Today regarded as one of the large contemporary realizers, with Pitiless ( Unforgiven ), a perfect world ( has Perfect World ), On the road of Madison ( The Bridges off Madison County ), Mystic River or Million Dollar Baby , as as a sure value (Clint Eastwood would have paid more than two billion dollars to Warner since its beginnings under contract), it does not encounter of them less great difficulties of financing its projects.

It can draw the best from its actors (Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Sean Penn, Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon), works in few catches, few repetitions and with the instinct.

Policy

Clint Eastwood carries out a life Politique enough activates. It is affiliated with the Republican party and posts ideas Libérales ( Libertarian in English, cf the controversy on the translation of this term in French with the article Libertarianisme). After having supported the candidature of Dwight Eisenhower in the years 1950, it militates publicly in 1968 and 1972 for Richard Nixon, at the side of actors like John Wayne, Charlton Heston and Glenn Ford. It also was near to the president Ronald Reagan.

Of 1986 with 1988, it was Maire (republican) of Carmel in California (where it saw), elected with 72% of the votes. With the cinema, in the film the Full powerss , it also holds the thesis that even the President of the United States can be a criminal.

In 1992, it is lacking with the republicans while giving his support for Ross Perot, a dissenting candidate of right-hand side supported by the Party of the reform.

With films which rather post its liberal ideas like Minuit in the garden of the good and of the evil (1997) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), it gives a discrete support for George W. Bush at the time of the presidential elections of 2004.

In January 2005, at the time of a dinner of official reception to New York, Eastwood was caught some very vigorously to the realizer Michael Moore, promising of the " tuer" , if it had suddenly come at his place with a camera (probably referring to the behavior from Michael Moore with her old friend Charlton Heston, in film-documentary the " Bowling for Columbine "). If the public took this declaration for a joke, Eastwood insisted on the fact that it was well the bottom of its thought (" I mean it").

Musics

It is interested also much in the Jazz music, as the film Bird proves it which recalls the life of the jazzman Charlie Parker.

He is also the producer of Straight No To drive out (1989), documentary on Thélonious Monk.

He also carried out an episode of the series of films on the blues, produced by Martin Scorsese Presents, entitled Piano Blues (2003)

Personal life

He has a sister: Jean.

He was married twice and, of five different women, he is the father of five girls and two boys:

From 1976 to 1988, Clint Eastwood lived with the actress Sondra Locke.

Catalog of films

Realizer

Cinema

Television

  • 1985 : fantastic Stories ( Amazing Stories ) (episode Vanessa in the Garden ) (series)

  • 2003: the Blues ( The Blues, has Musical Journey ) (episode Piano Blues ) (series)

Actor

Distinctions

Rewards

  • 1988 : Hollywood Foreign Close Association : Cecil B. DeMille Award

  • 1988 : Golden Globe: Better realizer for Bird

  • 1992 : Los Angeles Film Critics Association :

    • Better Pitiless film for
    • Better Pitiless realizer for
    • Better Pitiless actor for

  • 1992 : National Society off Film Critics :

    • Better Pitiless film for
    • Better Pitiless realizer for

  • 1992 : Golden Globe: Better Pitiless realizer for

  • 1992 : Directors Guild off America : Better Pitiless realizer for

  • 1993 : National Association off Theater Owners : Realistor of the Pitiless year for

  • 1993 : Ceremony of the Oscars: Impitoyable receives 4 Oscars of which:

    • Better Film,
    • Better realizer
    • Better male actor of second plan
    • Better assembly.
    • Nominations for better actor, better decoration, better sound, better photography, better scenario.

  • 1993 : British film Institute Fellowship : Reward for its single contribution as actor and realizer in the world for the film

  • 1993 : Golden Globes : Better Pitiless realizer for

  • 1993 : British Academy Award : Better Pitiless film for

  • 1994 : Academy Award Memorial : Price Irving G. Thalberg with the 67e ceremony of the Oscars.

  • 1994 : President of the jury of the Cannes festival: It was named Commandeur of Arts and Lettres by the Minister for the Culture Jacques Toubon

  • 1996 : American Film Institute and Film Society off Lincoln Center : Reward for the unit for its career

  • 1998 : César of honor: For its career as a realizer

  • 1998 : Producers Guild off America : price David O. Selenick for its career.

  • 2000 : Festival of Venice: Gold lion for the whole of its career

    • the price was decreed at the time of the opening ceremony of the festival. The actor received a lion of honor 36 years after his first arrival in Italy. Clint Eastwood came then in unknown to turn with Sergio Leone in a spaghetti western entitled For a handle of dollars . The history wants that Sergio Leone had not even tried hard to go to seek Eastwood with the airport. The reward was followed projection ahead first European of Space Cowboys .

  • 2003 : National Society off Film Critics : Better realizer for Mystic To rivet

  • 2003 : Los Angeles Film Critics Association : Better realizer for Mystic To rivet

  • 2003 : Screen Actors Guild Awards ( SAG Awards ): Reward the actor for the unit for his career

  • January 10th, 2005: National Society off Film Critics Awards : Better film of the year 2004 for Million Dollar Baby . Moreover Hilary Swank, the principal heroin of this film at summer honoured with the title of better actress.

  • 2005 : Ceremony of the Oscars: for Million Dollar Baby ,

    • Oscar of best film of the year 2004
    • Oscar of the best realizer for Clint Eastwood
    • Oscar of the best actress for Hilary Swank
    • Oscar of the best supporting role for Morgan Freeman

  • January 29th, 2006: Director Guild Award : receives off the Directors Guild America Lifetime Achievement Award (for the whole of the career)

  • August 12th, 2006: Boot of Gold : He saw himself giving his price Saturday, August 12, 2006 at the time of the 24e ceremony of the gold boots of Motion Picture & Television Fund, which rewards each year the actors, stuntmen, producers and realizers having perennialized the tradition of the western to the cinema and on the small screen

  • November 2006: Stanley Kubrick Award for the whole of the career

  • December 6th, 2006: large Californian Eastwood is distinguished by the governor from California: Arnold Schwarzenegger and makes its entry among the thirteen " leaders, visionaries and légendes" state (are thus distinguished in a " hall of the glory of Californie" museum of history, women and arts of the administrative capital Sacramento, to 150 km in the east of San Francisco)
  • December 7th, 2006: National Board off Review the recent film of Clint Eastwood " Letters of Iwo Jima" the price of best film of the year decreed by the American Association of criticisms obtained.
  • December 12th, 2006: Los Angeles Critics Association " Letters of Iwo Jima" , the second film of Clint Eastwood on the battle of Iwo Jima, in 1945, received the reward of best film of the Association of film criticisms of Los Angeles.
  • January 16th, 2007: Golden Globe " letters of Iwo Jima" Better film in foreign language.
  • February 6th, 2007: Humane Oscar the humane Oscar Valenti Jack for " the kindness of the spirit which emanates from its films." For daN Glickman, the President of the MPAA, films of Clint Eastwood " show the true capacity which the films have to tell the History and to help the nations with communiquer."
  • February 11th, 2007: Clint Eastwood still received a reward, the Berlin Camera for the whole of its carrière."

Nominations

  • 1970 : Laurel Awards: Nomination for its performance in When the eagles attack

  • 1972: Named with the National Council for the Arts by Nixon
  • 1992: Nomination with the Oscar (65th) of the best Pitiless actor for
  • 1993: Nomination with the Golden Globe of the best film (dramatic film) for Pitiless
  • 1996: Nomination in César of best foreign film for On the road of Madison
  • 1996: Nomination with the Golden Globe of the best film (dramatic film) for On the road of Madison
  • 1999: People' S Choice Awards: Male nomination for star preferred from time immemorial
  • 2001: Academy nominations off Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, the USA better realizer and better actor for Space Cowboys
  • 2003: Nomination with the Oscar (76th) of the best realizer for Mystic To rivet
  • 2003: Nomination with the Oscar (76th) of best film for Mystic To rivet
  • 2004: Nomination with the Golden Globe of the best film (dramatic film) for Mystic To rivet
  • 2004: Nomination with the Golden Globe of the best realizer for Mystic To rivet
  • 2005: Nomination with the Golden Globe of the best film music (than it contributed to compose) for Million Dollar Baby
  • 2005: Nomination with the Oscar (77th) of the best actor in a main role for Million Dollar Baby
  • 2007: Nomination with the Golden Globe of the best realizer for Memories of our fathers
  • 2007: Nomination with the Golden Globe of the best realizer for letters of Iwo Jima
  • 2007: Nomination with the Oscar (79th) of best Best film for letters of Iwo Jima
  • 2007: Nomination with the Oscar (79th) of the best Realizer for letters of Iwo Jima

Anecdotes

  • In the film Return towards future 3 which is located at the Far West, Marty McFly says to be called " Clint Eastwood".
  • the group Gorillaz gave the name of " Clint Eastwood" one of their song has.

Quotations

  • “At 70 years spent, it makes goods or excellent films with the constancy of a factory worker. ” ( The NewYork Times )

  • “Me, I am not an extremist. I can be very liberal for certain things and it sometimes happens to me to be very preserving for others.” * “the beauty of the cinema, it is to be able to try something of different. ”

  • “When I carried out my first film, a shiver in the night (1971), one did not take to me with the serious one. For the studio, it was a little: " Let play it with its pocket money, it will return for the businesses sérieuses." ”
  • “I can sleep on my two ears, my worst enemy takes care on me…” Eastwood of Eli Wallach in the Good, the Rough one and the Gangster , of Sergio Leone
  • “the world is divided into two categories, those which have the gun charged and those which dig, you you dig…” Eastwood with Eli Wallach in the Good, the Rough one and the Gangster
  • “I was always fascinated by the victims, including in my action films, including the Harry Inspector. By the way in which an incident could determine the course of their existence and to lead them where they succeeded. ” about Mystic To rivet .

References

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