See also: Eastwood
Clint Eastwood is a Acteur, Réalisateur, producing Compositeur and American, born on May 31st, 1930 with San Francisco, California.
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.
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.
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").
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)
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.
1971 : The Beguiled: The Storyteller
1985 : fantastic Stories ( Amazing Stories ) (episode Vanessa in the Garden ) (series)
1955 : the Revenge of the creature ( Revenge off the Creature ), of Jack Arnold
1985 : Knight of the Order of Arts and the Letters by Jacques Toubon, Minister for the culture.
1988 : Hollywood Foreign Close Association : Cecil B. DeMille Award
1988 : Cannes festival: Technical palm for Bird
1988 : Golden Globe: Better realizer for Bird
1992 : Los Angeles Film Critics Association :
1993 : Ceremony of the Oscars: Impitoyable receives 4 Oscars of which:
1993 : British film Institute Fellowship : Reward for its single contribution as actor and realizer in the world for the film
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
April 25th, 2001: International festival of film of San Francisco: Prices Akira Kurosawa
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 : Ceremony of Césars: Better foreign film for Mystic To rivet .
2003 : Screen Actors Guild Awards ( SAG Awards ): Reward the actor for the unit for his career
2004 : Director' S Guild off America : Better realizer for Million Dollar Baby .
2004 : Chicago Film Critics Association : Better realizer for Million Dollar Baby .
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 : Golden Globe : Better realizer for Million Dollar Baby .
2005 : Ceremony of the Oscars: for Million Dollar Baby ,
January 29th, 2006: Director Guild Award : receives off the Directors Guild America Lifetime Achievement Award (for the whole of the career)
February 25th, 2006: Ceremony of Césars: Better foreign film for Million Dollar Baby .
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
1970 : Laurel Awards: Nomination for its performance in When the eagles attack
“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. ”
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