Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, director, producer, and composer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Director for his movies Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). He was also nominated for his movies Mystic River (2003), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) and American Sniper (2014).

Early life
Eastwood was born in San Francisco, California on May 31, 1930.Eliot, p. 13 He was nicknamed "Samson" by the hospital nurses as he weighed  at birth.McGilligan, p. 22 Eastwood is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry.Smith, p. 116 He was raised in Piedmont, California. He studied at Piedmont Junior High School and at Oakland Technical High School.

Career
He has appeared in many movies since the 1950s. The most famous are the Dollars trilogy of Spaghetti Westerns (1964–1966), Dirty Harry movie series as Harry Callahan (1971–1988), Any Which Way You Can (1979) and similar movies. Eastwood also won critical acclaim as a director with the movies Unforgiven (1992), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1996), Space Cowboys (2000), Mystic River (2003), and Million Dollar Baby (2005). In recent years, Eastwood directed biopic movies such as American Sniper, Sully, and Richard Jewell.

He won election as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, in April 1986. He earned $200 per month in that position which he donated to The Carmel Youth Centre. While in office, he helped to make ice cream legal to eat on city streets, added public restrooms to the public beach, and a city library annex building was built. He served for two years and did not wish to run for a second term. In 2001, Governor Gray Davis appointed him to the California State Park and Recreation Commission."Governor Schwarzenegger Appointments to the State Park and Recreation Commission"  – California State Park and Recreation Commission. Retrieved: May 28, 2008.

Personal life
Eastwood was married to Maggie Johnson from 1953 until they divorced in 1984. They had two children. Then he was married to Dina Ruiz since 1996. They have one child. He now lives with his family in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. He was the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea for two years, starting in 1986.

Awards
+ Academy Awards Year  Award  Film  Result1992  Best Director  Unforgiven   Best Picture  Unforgiven   Best Actor  Unforgiven   1994 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award  2003  Best Director  Mystic River   Best Picture  Mystic River  2004  Best Director  Million Dollar Baby   Best Picture  Million Dollar Baby   Best Actor  Million Dollar Baby  2006  Best Director  Letters from Iwo Jima   Best Picture  Letters from Iwo Jima  

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