Query: Warren Beatty was never involved in an epic drama film.

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Warren Beatty <=SEP=> Henry Warren Beatty ( née Beaty ; born March 30 , 1937 ) , better known as Warren Beatty , is an American actor and filmmaker . He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards -- four for Best Actor , four for Best Picture , two for Best Director , three for Original Screenplay , and one for Adapted Screenplay -- winning Best Director for Reds ( 1981 ) . Beatty is the first and only person to have been twice nominated for acting in , directing , writing , and producing the same film -- first with Heaven Can Wait ( 1978 ) , which was co-written by Elaine May and co-directed by Buck Henry , and again with Reds , which he co-wrote with Trevor Griffiths .   In 1999 , he was awarded the Academy 's highest honor , the Irving G. Thalberg Award . Beatty has been nominated for eighteen 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 ) , Dick Tracy ( 1990 ) , Bugsy ( 1991 ) , Bulworth ( 1998 ) and Rules Do n't Apply ( 2016 ) , all of which he also produced .   Arthur Penn , who directed Bonnie and Clyde , described Beatty as `` the perfect producer '' , adding , `` He makes everyone demand the best of themselves . Warren stays with a picture through editing , mixing and scoring . He plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen . ''

Reds (film) <=SEP=> Reds is a 1981 American epic drama film co-written , produced and directed by Warren Beatty . The picture centers on the life and career of John Reed , the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days That Shook the World . Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant and Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill .   The supporting cast includes Edward Herrmann , Jerzy Kosinski , Paul Sorvino , Maureen Stapleton , Gene Hackman , Ramon Bieri , Nicolas Coster and M. Emmet Walsh . The film also features , as `` witnesses , '' interviews with the 98-year-old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing , author Dorothy Frooks , reporter and author George Seldes , civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin , and the American writer Henry Miller , among others .   Beatty was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director and the film was nominated for Best Picture , but lost to Chariots of Fire . Beatty , Keaton , Nicholson and Stapleton were nominated for Best Actor , Best Actress , Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress , respectively . Stapleton was the only one of the four to win . Beatty was also nominated , along with co-writer Trevor Griffiths , for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay , but lost to Chariots of Fire . Beatty became the third person to be nominated for Academy Awards in the categories Best Actor , Director and Original Screenplay for a film nominated for Best Picture .   In June 2008 , the American Film Institute revealed its `` Ten Top Ten '' -- the best ten films in ten `` classic '' American film genres -- after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community . Reds was acknowledged as the ninth best film in the epic genre .