Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr.( born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and politician.
After achieving success in the Western TV series" Rawhide", he rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's" Dollars" Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five" Dirty Harry" films throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.
For his work in the Western film" Unforgiven"( 1992) and the sports drama" Million Dollar Baby"( 2004), Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor.
Eastwood's greatest commercial successes have been the adventure comedy" Every Which Way But Loose"( 1978) and it s sequel, the action comedy" Any Which Way You Can"( 1980), after adjustment for inflation.
Other popular films include the Western" Hang' Em High"( 1968), the psychological thriller" Play Misty for Me"( 1971), the crime film" Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"( 1974), the Western" The Outlaw Josey Wales"( 1976), the prison film" Escape from Alcatraz"( 1979), the action film" Firefox"( 1982), the suspense thriller" Tightrope"( 1984), the Western" Pale Rider"( 1985), the war films" Where Eagles Dare"( 1968)," Kelly's Heroes"( 1970), and" Heartbreak Ridge"( 1986), the action thriller" In the Line of Fire"( 1993), the romantic drama" The Bridges of Madison County"( 1995), and the drama" Gran Torino"( 2008).
In addition to directing many of his own star vehicles, Eastwood has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as the mystery drama" Mystic River"( 2003) and the war film" Letters from Iwo Jima"( 2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations, the drama" Changeling"( 2008), and the South African biographical political sports drama" Invictus"( 2009).
The war drama biopic" American Sniper"( 2014) set box- office records for the largest January release ever and was also the largest opening ever for an Eastwood film.
Eastwood received considerable critical praise in France for several films, including some that were not well received in the United States.
Eastwood has been awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994, he became a recipient of the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in 2007, he was awarded the Legion of Honour medal.
In 2000, Eastwood was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.
Since 1967, Eastwood's Malpaso Productions has produced all but four of his American films.
Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as mayor of Carmel- by- the- Sea, California, a non-partisan office.
Michel Barbey
Michel Barbey( 1927) is a French stage, film, and television actor known for his comic roles.
He starred in the 1950 film" Dominique".
Million Dollar Baby (1941 film)
Million Dollar Baby is a 1941 romantic comedy film directed by Curtis Bernhardt.
Released by Warner Bros., the film stars Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, and Ronald Reagan, with May Robson and Lee Patrick.
Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman.
The film follows an underappreciated boxing trainer, the mistakes that haunt him from his past, and his quest for atonement by helping an underdog amateur boxer achieve her dream of becoming a professional.
" Million Dollar Baby" opened to widespread acclaim from critics, and won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Swank.
Its screenplay was written by Paul Haggis, based on short stories by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd.
Originally published under the title" Rope Burns", the stories have since been republished under the film's title.
Kon-Tiki (1950 film)
Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian- Swedish documentary film about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark in 1950, followed by the United States in 1951.
The movie, which was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar, received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1951 at the 24th Academy Awards.
The Oscar officially went to Olle Nordemar.
The Academy Film Archive preserved" Kon- Tiki" in 2013.
Olle Nordemar
Olof Harry" Olle" Nordemar( 25 July 1914 – 18 February 1999) was a Swedish film director, film editor, film producer, cinematographer and screenwriter.
Nordemar is best known as the producer behind Olle Hellbom's films based on novels by Astrid Lindgren.
Nordemar edited and produced the Norwegian- Swedish documentary" Kon- Tiki"( 1950) which received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1951 at the 24th Academy Awards.
Maureen Shea
Maureen Anne Shea Carranza( born January 11, 1981) is an American professional boxer of Irish and Mexican descent.
She held the WBC interim female featherweight title in 2011 and the IFBA super bantamweight title from 2014 to 2015, and challenged once for the WBA female super featherweight title in 2009.
She is known as the" Real Million Dollar Baby" because of her work as the main sparring partner for Hilary Swank in her preparation for the 2005 movie," Million Dollar Baby".
Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl( October 6, 1914 – April 18, 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and geography.
He became notable for his" Kon- Tiki" expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km( 5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a hand- built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands.
The expedition was designed to demonstrate that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between separate cultures.
This was linked to a diffusionist model of cultural development.
Heyerdahl subsequently made other voyages designed to demonstrate the possibility of contact between widely separated ancient people, notably the" Ra II" expedition of 1970, when he sailed from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in a papyrus reed boat.
He was appointed a government scholar in 1984.
In May 2011, the Thor Heyerdahl Archives were added to UNESCO's" Memory of the World" Register.
At the time, this list included 238 collections from all over the world.
The Heyerdahl Archives span the years 1937 to 2002 and include his photographic collection, diaries, private letters, expedition plans, articles, newspaper clippings, original book, and article manuscripts.
The Heyerdahl Archives are administered by the Kon- Tiki Museum and the National Library of Norway in Oslo.
Tom Rosenberg
Tom B. Rosenberg is an American film producer as well as founder and chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment.
He is a recipient of the 2004 Academy Award for Best Picture for the film" Million Dollar Baby".
Tom grew up in the Lakeview area of Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.

Question: Are both directors of films Kon-Tiki (1950 Film) and Million Dollar Baby from the same country?
Answer: no