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Warren
Beatty
| FULL
NAME |
Henry
Warren Beaty |
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| BORN |
March
30, 1937, Richmond, VA, USA |
| ASSOCIATION |
Actor,
director, writer, producer |
| NATIONALITY |
American |
| LIVES |
Mulholland
Dr., Beverly Hills, CA |
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REVIEWED
ENTRIES |
17
(actor)
8 (filmmaker) |
| MAX.
RATING |
 ½
(actor) (Bonnie
and Clyde)
½
(filmmaker) |
| MIN.
RATING |
(actor)
½
(filmmaker) |
| AVERAGE
RATING |
3.94
(actor)
3.56 (filmmaker) |
| STRENGTHS |
- Screen
charisma
- Fashion
sense
- Ability to
transform with time
- Intelligence/ability
to empathize
- Filmmaking
talents.
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ACTOR
FILMOGRAPHY
(ONLY REVIEWED ENTRIES)
FILMMAKER
FILMOGRAPHY
(ONLY REVIEWED ENTRIES)
BIO
 The
story of Warren Beatty is one of enduring success spanning more than
forty years from his impressive breakthrough opposite Natalie Wood in
Elia Kazan's Splendor
in the Grass and to his final directorial
effort so far,
Rules Don't Apply.
His position in American cinema has never been undisputed, starting out
as an often impishly sexy young romantic lead, developing through his
independent, political activist playboy persona of the seventies, and to
the hottest of Hollywood's fifty plus men in the late eighties and
nineties.
When the almost
unreasonably resourceful Beatty got his break in
Splendor in the
Grass, he had already turned down ten offers for a football
scholarship. He then scored only moderately successful roles in a prolific
1960s, before hitting it big with Bonnie
and Clyde (1967).
He was Oscar-nominated for best actor as well as for best picture (as a
producer), and was overnight one of the most sought after men in the
business.
 After
doing a handful of star-fueled movies in the early 70s (often opposite
contemporary love interests, such as Julie Christie in
McCabe and
Mrs. Miller and Goldie Hawn in $
(Dollars)),
Beatty has arguably been the most selective and independent performer in
Hollywood history. In the fifty years that have passed since
1975, Beatty has appeared in just nine movies, only one of which he
didn't produce or direct himself. In the process he's been
able to turn down roles such as the lead in The Way We Were, Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part II, and
more recently
the role as Bill in
Kill Bill: Vol 2.
Warren Beatty's
political affiliation has always been an important basis for his movies,
and particularly so with two of his most acclaimed films as a director;
Reds (1981) and Bulworth
(1998), but
also in films he has only written, such as Shampoo
(1975). From
the ten films in which Beatty has been credited for work behind the
camera, he has received a total of 14 Academy Award nominations, which is an
achievement beyond compare.
The sophisticated,
trendy, intelligent, arrogant, dominant, and notoriously womanizing
Beatty was finally 'hooked' in 1992 when he married Annette Bening, whom he
had met during the filming of Bugsy
(1991).
Twenty-one
years his junior, Bening managed what no other woman had before her;
keep Beatty grounded. They now have four children and reside on
Mulholland Drive along with fellow giant Jack Nicholson, and until his
death, the legendary Marlon
Brando.
AWARDS
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The
Academy Awards (Oscars) |
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1968 |
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Nominated
for Best Picture for Bonnie
and Clyde
- producer |
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1968 |
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Nominated
for Actor for Bonnie
and Clyde |
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1976 |
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Nominated
for Writing (Best Original Screenplay) for Shampoo |
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1979 |
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Nominated
for Writing (Best Adapted Screenplay) for Heaven
Can Wait |
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1979 |
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Nominated
for Best Picture for Heaven
Can Wait - producer |
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1979 |
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Nominated
for Actor for Heaven
Can Wait |
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1982 |
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Nominated
for Best Picture for
Reds
- producer |
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1982 |
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Best
Director for
Reds |
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1982 |
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Nominated
for Writing (Best Original Screenplay) for
Reds |
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1982 |
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Nominated
for Actor for
Reds |
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1992 |
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Nominated
for Best Picture for Bugsy
- producer |
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1992 |
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Nominated
for Actor for Bugsy |
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1999 |
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Irving
G. Thalberg Memorial Award |
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2000 |
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Nominated
for Writing (Best Original Screenplay) for Bulworth |
QUOTES
(On his attitude toward the press) "In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards."
"Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch."
"My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties."
CHARACTER
QUOTES
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
John McCabe (Warren Beatty): "I've got
girls up here that'll do more tricks than a goddamn monkey on a hundred
yards of grapevine."
The Parallax View (1974)
Joe Frady (Warren Beatty): "No, I'm.. I'm a girl."
Deputy Red (Earl Hindman): (touching him) "Why don't you go
over there and tell those people real loud?"
Joe Frady (Warren Beatty): "Don't touch me unless you love
me."
Joe Frady (Warren Beatty): "I'm dead, Bill, and I wanna stay
that way for a while."
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