Henry Warren Beatty[a] (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American
actor, director, producer and screenwriter whose career spans over six
decades. He has been nominated for 15 Academy Awards, including four
for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three
for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay â€" winning
Best Director for Reds (1981). Beatty is one of only two people (Orson
Welles being the other) to have been nominated for acting in,
directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice:
first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again
with Reds.[b]Eight of the films he has produced have earned 53 Academy
nominations, and in 1999, he was awarded the Academy's highest honor,
the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Beatty has been nominated for 18 Golden
Globe Awards, winning six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille
Award, which he was honored with in 2007. Among his Golden
Globe-nominated films are Splendor in the Grass (1961), his screen
debut, and Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Shampoo (1975), Heaven Can Wait
(1978), Reds (1981), Dick Tracy (1990), Bugsy (1991), Bulworth (1998)
and Rules Don't Apply (2016), all of which he also produced.
actor, director, producer and screenwriter whose career spans over six
decades. He has been nominated for 15 Academy Awards, including four
for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three
for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay â€" winning
Best Director for Reds (1981). Beatty is one of only two people (Orson
Welles being the other) to have been nominated for acting in,
directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice:
first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again
with Reds.[b]Eight of the films he has produced have earned 53 Academy
nominations, and in 1999, he was awarded the Academy's highest honor,
the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Beatty has been nominated for 18 Golden
Globe Awards, winning six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille
Award, which he was honored with in 2007. Among his Golden
Globe-nominated films are Splendor in the Grass (1961), his screen
debut, and Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Shampoo (1975), Heaven Can Wait
(1978), Reds (1981), Dick Tracy (1990), Bugsy (1991), Bulworth (1998)
and Rules Don't Apply (2016), all of which he also produced.
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