Warren Beatty

Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. He has been nominated for 15 Academy Awards.  He won the Best Director Award. He has been nominated for 16 Golden Globe Awards and won six. Beatty was nominated for four Oscars for Heaven Can Wait. He won an Oscar for Reds.

Early life
Beatty was born in Richmond, Virginia. His mother was Canadian teacher Kathlyn Corinne and doctor Ira Owens. He was raised in Arlington, Virginia. His older sister is actress Shirley MacLaine. He studied at Northwestern University for a year from 1954 through 1955.

Beatty enlisted in the California Air National Guard on February 11, 1960 under his original name, Henry W. Beaty. On January 1, 1961, Beatty was discharged from the Air National Guard due to physical disability.

Career
Beatty started his career making appearances on television shows such as Studio One (1957), Kraft Television Theatre (1957), and Playhouse 90 (1959). He was a semi-regular on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis during its first season (1959–60). Beatty made his movie debut in Elia Kazan's Splendor in the Grass (1961), opposite Natalie Wood.

In 1967, when he was 28, he produced and acted alongside Faye Dunaway and Gene Hackman in Bonnie and Clyde. It was a critical and commercial success, and was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, and seven Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor.

After Bonnie and Clyde, Beatty acted with Elizabeth Taylor in The Only Game in Town (1970), directed by George Stevens; McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), directed by Robert Altman; Dollars (1971), directed by Richard Brooks; The Parallax View (1974), directed by Alan J. Pakula; and The Fortune (1975), directed by Mike Nichols.

Beatty starred in Reds (1981), an historical epic about American Communist journalist John Reed who observed the Russian October Revolution. Beatty won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.

Following Reds, Beatty did not appear in a movie for five years until 1987's Ishtar, written and directed by Elaine May.

Beatty produced, directed and played the title role as comic strip based detective Dick Tracy in the 1990 movie of the same name. The movie received critical acclaim and was one of the highest-grossing movies of the year. It received seven Academy Award nominations, winning three for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, and Best Original Song. It also received four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture. In 1998, he wrote, produced, directed and starred in the political satire Bulworth, which was critically acclaimed and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Following the very bad box office performance of Town & Country (2001), in which Beatty starred, he did not appear in or direct another movie for 15 years.

In 2016, Beatty returned to acting and directing in the movie Rules Don't Apply, which was about a fake romance story about Howard Hughes.

Personal life
Beatty has been married to actress Annette Bening since 1992. They have four children.  His eldest son Stephen Ira came out as transgender in 2006. Their daughter, Ella, is an actress.

Beatty is a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party.  In 1972, Beatty was part of the "inner circle" of Senator George McGovern's presidential campaign.

Movies
 Year Film Role Notes1961Splendor in the GrassBud StamperGolden Globe for Best New Star - ActorNominated - Golden Globe for Best ActorThe Roman Spring of Mrs. StonePaolo di Leo1962All Fall DownBerry-Berry Willart1964LilithVincent Bruce1965Mickey OneMickey OnePromise Her AnythingHarley Rummell1966KaleidoscopeBarney Lincoln1967Bonnie and ClydeClyde BarrowDavid di Donatello Award for Best ActorPhotoplay Award for Best ActorPhotoplay Award for Best FilmGolden Laurel Award for Best Action-DramaKansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best FilmNominated – Academy Award for Best ActorNominated – Academy Award for Best PictureNominated - Golden Globe for Best PictureNominated – Golden Globe for Best ActorNominated – BAFTA for Best ActorNominated - National Society of Film Critics for Best Film1970The Only Game in TownJoe Grady1971McCabe & Mrs. MillerJohn McCabe$Joe Collins1974The Parallax ViewJoseph Frady1975ShampooGeorge RoundyWGA Award for Best ScreenplayNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best ScreenplayNominated – Academy Award for Best ScreenplayNominated – Golden Globe for Best ActorNominated - Golden Globe for Best PictureThe FortuneNicky Wilson1978Heaven Can WaitJoe PendletonGolden Globe for Best PictureGolden Globe for Best ActorWGA Award for Best ScreenplaySaturn Award for Best FilmSaturn Award for Best ActorSaturn Award for Best WritingNominated – Academy Award for Best ActorNominated – Academy Award for Best PictureNominated – Academy Award for Best DirectorNominated – Academy Award for Best ScreenplayNominated – DGA Award for Best DirectorNominated – Saturn Award for Best Direction1981RedsJohn ReedAcademy Award for Best DirectorDGA Award for Best DirectorGolden Globe for Best DirectorWGA Award for Best ScreenplayDavid di Donatello for Best ProducerLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best DirectorNew York Film Critics Circle Award for Best FilmNational Board of Review Award for Best DirectorNational Board of Review Award for Top Ten FilmAmerican Movie Award for Excellence in FilmNominated – Academy Award for Best ActorNominated – Academy Award for Best PictureNominated – Academy Award for Best ScreenplayNominated – Golden Globe for Best ActorNominated – Golden Globe for Best ScreenplayNominated - Golden Globe for Best PictureNominated – BAFTA for Best ActorNominated - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best FilmNominated - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay1987IshtarLyle Rogers1990Dick TracyDick TracyNominated - Golden Globe for Best PictureNominated - Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award for Best DirectorNominated - Saturn Award for Best ActorNominated - Saturn Award for Best Film1991BugsyBugsy SiegelGolden Globe for Best PictureLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best FilmNational Board of Review Award for Best ActorNational Board of Review for Top Ten FilmNominated – Academy Award for Best ActorNominated – Academy Award for Best PictureNominated – Golden Globe for Best ActorNominated - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated - New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActorNominated - National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor1994Love AffairMike Gambril1998BulworthSen. Jay Billington BulworthLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best ScreenplayNominated – Academy Award for Best ScreenplayNominated – WGA Award for Best ScreenplayNominated – Golden Globe for Best ScreenplayNominated - Golden Globe for Best PictureNominated – Golden Globe for Best ActorNominated - Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award for Best FilmNominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best ScreenplayNominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor2001Town & CountryPorter Stoddard 2008 The Dick Tracy TV Special Dick Tracy Also director and producer 2016 Rules Don't Apply Howard Hughes Also writer, director, and producer

 References 

More readings
 Ellis Amburn, The Sexiest Man Alive: A Biography of Warren Beatty, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., New York, 2002. 
 Suzanne Finstad, Warren Beatty: A Private Man, Random House, Inc., New York, 2005. 
 Mark Harris, "Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of New Hollywood", Penguin Press, New York, 2008. 
 Suzanne Munshower, "Warren Beatty: His Life, His Loves, HIs Work", St. Martin's Press, New York, 1990. 
 Lawrence Quirk, "The Films of Warren Beatty", Citadel Press, New Jersey, 1979. 

Other websites




 The Carolyn Jackson Collection, no. 13 – Interview with Warren Beatty, from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
 , with Elaine May speaking

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