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Eastwood has acted in 66 films, including Hang 'Em High, Escape from Alcatraz, The Bridges of Madison County, and Gran Torino. Eastwood's started directing in 1971, and in 1982, his debut as a producer began with two films, Firefox and Honkytonk Man. Eastwood also has contributed music to his films, either through performing, writing, or composing.
Notably, Charlton Heston was late for his role presenting the voting rules, reportedly due to a flat tire. Clint Eastwood, who was slated to present for Best Picture, was asked to fill in. Heston's written dialogue leaned heavily on his role in the movie The Ten Commandments, leading Eastwood to quip, "Come on, flip the card, man. This isn't my ...
For the performance he was nominated for Best Actor at the 45th Academy Awards, which were presented on March 27, 1973, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. [58] Before the ceremony, Brando decided that—as the favorite to win [ 57 ] —he would boycott as a protest led by AIM against the ongoing siege at Wounded Knee ...
In 1973, Sacheen Littlefeather took the stage to reject an Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando. ... Clint Eastwood mocked her by saying that he was presenting the award on behalf of “all the ...
It may have been alluding to the catcalls from the audience, or perhaps to a crass crack by Clint Eastwood, who, upon presenting the Oscar for best picture, wondered into the microphone whether he ...
Coogan’s Bluff (1968) A fish-out-of-water cop thriller with Eastwood as the Stetson-wearing fish. Directed by his mentor and longtime collaborator, Don Siegel, this was the actor’s first non ...
High Plains Drifter is a 1973 American Western film directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Ernest Tidyman, and produced by Robert Daley for The Malpaso Company and Universal Pictures. The film stars Eastwood as a mysterious stranger who metes out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town. [4]
Meanwhile, Hackford did already have one Oscar — for his live-action short "Teenage Father" in 1979. His other two nominations (picture and director) were for "Ray," but he lost both this night.