Warren Beatty is an American filmmaker and actor. Over his career he has received an Academy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award. He was honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1999, the BAFTA Fellowship in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2008.
Beatty has been nominated for 14 Academy Awards, including 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 only person to have been nominated for acting, directing, writing, and producing in the same film, and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director) and again for Reds. He was nominated for his performances as Clyde Barrow in the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a quarterback mistakenly taken to heaven in the sports fantasy drama Heaven Can Wait (1978), John Reed in the historical epic Reds (1981), and Bugsy Siegel in the crime drama Bugsy (1991), the later three of which he also directed.
He won three competitive Golden Globe Awards, his first for New Star of the Year – Actor for Splendor in the Grass (1961). He also won for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Best Director for Reds (1981). He won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film for the later. He also won three Writers Guild of America Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay for Heaven Can Wait (1978), and two wins for Best Original Screenplay for Reds (1981), and Bulworth (1998).
On stage, Beatty made his Broadway debut in the William Inge kitchen sink drama A Loss of Roses (1960) for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
Major associations Academy Award Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1968 Best Picture Bonnie and Clyde Best Actor 1976 Best Original Screenplay Shampoo 1979 Best Picture Heaven Can Wait Best Director Best Actor Best Adapted Screenplay 1982 Best Picture Reds Best Director Best Actor Best Original Screenplay 1992 Best Picture Bugsy Best Actor 1999 Best Original Screenplay Bulworth 2000 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.British Academy Film Awards 1968 Best Foreign Actor Bonnie and Clyde 1983 Best Actor Reds 2001 BAFTA Fellowship
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1962 Most Promising Newcomer - Male Splendor in the Grass Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama 1968 Bonnie and Clyde 1976 Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Shampoo 1979 Heaven Can Wait 1982 Best Director Reds Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Best Screenplay 1992 Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Bugsy 1999 Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Bulworth Best Screenplay 2007 Cecil B. DeMille Award
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1960 Best Featured Actor in a Play A Loss of Roses
Miscellaneous awards Directors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1979 Outstanding Director - Feature Film Heaven Can Wait 1982 Reds
Writers Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1976 Best Original Screenplay Shampoo 1979 Best Adapted Screenplay Heaven Can Wait 1982 Best Original Screenplay Reds 1999 Bulworth
Honorary awards
Organization Year Honor French Minister of Culture 1992 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres National Board of Review 1998 Alan J. Pakula Memorial Award Americans for Democratic Action 1999 Eleanor Roosevelt Award American Society of Cinematographers 1999 Board of Governors Award Brennan Center for Justice 2001 Brennan Legacy Award Costume Designers Guild 2001 Distinguished Director Award San Sebastián International Film Festival 2001 Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award British Academy of Film and Television Arts 2002 BAFTA Fellowship Publicists Guild Award 2002 Life Achievement Award San Francisco International Film Festival 2002 Akira Kurosawa Lifetime Achievement Award Kennedy Center for Performing Arts 2004 Kennedy Center Honors Producers Guild of America 2004 Milestone Award Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights 2005 Phillip Burton Public Service Award American Film Institute 2008 AFI Life Achievement Award Venice Film Festival 2008 Career Golden Lion Art Directors Guild 2009 Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award Britannia Awards 2011 Stanley Kubrick Award California Hall of Fame 2013 Inductee Museum of the Moving Image 2016 Honoree Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2016 Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence
Directed Academy Award Performances YearPerformerFilmResultAcademy Award for Best Actor1979HimselfHeaven Can Wait1982RedsAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actor1979Jack WardenHeaven Can Wait1982Jack NicholsonReds1991Al PacinoDick TracyAcademy Award for Best Actress1982Diane KeatonRedsAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actress1979Dyan CannonHeaven Can Wait1982Maureen StapletonReds
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