Reds (1981) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States. Director: a list of 48 titles created 20 Oct 2012 a list of 23 titles created 14 May 2013 a list of 47 titles created 31 Jan 2015 a list of 26 titles created 12 Dec 2015 a list of 25 titles created 11 months ago Search for " Reds " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 3 Oscars. Another 19 wins & 34 nominations.

See more awards » Videos Edit Storyline American journalist John Reed journeys to Russia to document the Bolshevik Revolution and returns a revolutionary. His fervor for left-wing politics leads him to Louise Bryant, then married, who will become a feminist icon and activist. Politics at home become more complicated as the rift grows between reality and Reed's ideals. Bryant takes up with a cynical playwright, and Reed returns to Russia, where his health declines. Written by Jwelch5742 Not since Gone With The Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it! Genres: 25 December 1981 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia Novelist Jerzy Kosinski originally turned down the acting gig in this film because he feared he would be kidnapped by the KGB whilst shooting on location in Finland. See more » Goofs When Louise first comes to New York and finds John's apartment (during the time of WWI), some of the apartment windows behind her have air conditioning units. See more » Quotes [first lines] Witness 1: [voiceover] Was that in 1913 or 17? I can't remember now.

Uh, I'm, uh, beginning to forget all the people that I used to know, see? Witness 2: [voiceover] Do I remember Louise Bryant? Why, of course, I couldn't forget her if I tried. As the credits roll, additional interviews with the 'witnesses' play. See more » Connections Every movie lover should see this film! 26 June 2001 | by Princess-Alice – See all my reviews Warren Beatty's Reds follows only Gone With The Wind in my list of favourite films. This movie is both a love story, and a documentary. It educates the viewer not just on John Reed and his comrades, but on WWI era society in general. This brilliant script, (which, like the writings of Jack Reed expresses his political feelings with the same poetic eloquence as his love poems to his wife Louise), is interspersed with commentary from Jack's contemporaries, who tell the history from their own unique perspectives.

As the truth of what was going on in that community is such an illusive thing, the only way to tell this story accurately was to show the often completely opposite view points of what was going on as told by the people for whom this history is a first hand memory. The acting in Reds is breath taking. Every member of this, extremely large, cast committed fully to their characters. One feels a true connection to even those characters who lurked in the background with only occasional lines. The most notable performances were by Beatty himself, (who's embodiment of Jack Reed was incredible), Diane Keaton, (who portrayed all the facets of Louise's personality with stunning realism), Jack Nickelson, (who delivers O'Neil's quick witted dialogue with an almost frightening cynicism), and Maureen Stapelton, (who conveyed an amazing strength as Emma Goldman). While these actors were the most prominently featured, all the actors delivered noteworthy performances as far as I'm concerned. The political history covered in this movie is nothing if not vast. This is proof of Beatty's most impressive knowledge of history. This is a film I would recommend be shown in schools, as one the most in depth study of American communism on screen to date.

Reds is truly an inspiration, and should be seen by every actor, director, writer, liberal, film maker, history buff & movie lover! You will not be disappointed! 41 of 61 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Warren Beatty writes, directs, stars in Oscar-winning Reds - Dec 04, 1981 - HISTORY.com Warren Beatty writes, directs, stars in Oscar-winning Reds Share this: Warren Beatty writes, directs, stars in Oscar-winning Reds Author Warren Beatty writes, directs, stars in Oscar-winning Reds URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1981, Reds, a movie about an American Communist and the Russian Revolution written by, directed and starring Warren Beatty–an actor who became a prominent Hollywood leading man in the 1960s with such movies as Bonnie and Clyde–premieres in U.S. theaters. Reds, based on a true story, received 12 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Beatty) and Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor for Beatty’s co-stars Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson.

Beatty took home an Oscar for Best Director, his inaugural win in that category. He had received his first Best Director Oscar nomination several years earlier for his directorial debut, 1978’s Heaven Can Wait. Beatty was born on March 30, 1937, in Richmond, Virginia, and studied acting at Northwestern University and later with the legendary teacher Stella Adler in New York City. After a string of early roles in TV and theater, he made his big-screen debut in 1961’s Splendor in the Grass, directed by Elia Kazan and co-starring Natalie Wood. In 1967, he and Faye Dunaway co-starred as the notorious outlaw lovers portrayed in the box-office hit Bonnie and Clyde. During the 1970s, Beatty appeared in such films as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), with Julie Christie; Shampoo (1975), a satire he co-wrote about a womanizing Beverly Hills hairdresser; and Heaven Can Wait (1978), in which he portrayed a pro football player who inhabits another man’s body following an accident.

The film, which Beatty directed, was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Beatty), Best Supporting Actor (Jack Warden) and Best Supporting Actress (Dyan Cannon). Beatty’s next movie was 1981’s ambitious Reds, a historical epic running more than three hours in which he played the real-life radical journalist John Reed. Diane Keaton co-starred as Reed’s colleague and wife Louise Bryant, while Jack Nicholson played the playwright Eugene O’Neill and Maureen Stapleton (who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance) was the anarchist Emma Goldman. Beatty followed Reds, which lost the Best Picture Oscar to Chariots of Fire, with the now-infamous big-budget box-office bomb Ishtar (1987), in which he and Dustin Hoffman starred as lounge singers who travel to Morocco. During the 1990s, Beatty appeared in such films as Dick Tracy (1991), Bugsy (1992), in which he played the title role of the real-life gangster, and the political satire Bulworth (1998), which featured Halle Berry.

Off screen, the actor was known for his political activism and his high-profile romances with such actresses as Julie Christie, Diane Keaton and Madonna. Beatty appears briefly in the pop star’s 1991 documentary Madonna: True or Dare. Since 1992, he has been married to the actress Annette Bening (The Grifters, American Beauty), his co-star in Bugsy and 1994’s An Affair to Remember. Beatty is the younger sibling of the actress Shirley MacLaine, the Oscar-winning star of Terms of Endearment (1984) and such films as The Apartment (1960), Steel Magnolias (1989) and Bewitched (2005). Related Videos ‎Reds (1981) directed by Warren Beatty • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd 6 A lengthy, handsomely crafted drama with an excellently assembled cast and a historically significant subject, Warren Beatty's "Reds" may be most interesting for the fact that it seem to inspire little loud conversation these days.

Nominated for 12 Academy Award nominations and featuring a filmmaking team that, beyond Beatty, includes Vittorio Storraro, Dede Allen, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Gene Hackman, it seems that few people allow "Reds" to roll off their tongues when discussing important films. Perhaps, it simply may not merit inclusion in that conversation, but, regardless, it is a competent and compelling epic. "Reds" details the life of John Reed, an American journalist whose politics and passions take him to Russia during the Bolshevik revolution of 1917,… Review by Wilson ★★★★★ Warren Beatty's Reds has to be considered perhaps the most ambitious, frankly crazy, film released by mainstream Hollywood. It is, in 1981, a sympathetic, if critical, look at the 1917 Russian Revolution. The film focuses on the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who wrote Ten Days That Shook the World.

It mixes the personal and the political, spending a good deal of time looking at Reed's relationship with Louise Bryant (the amazing Diane Keaton, more of whom later), while also chronicling the revolution, through 'witnesses', montage, song, interviews. It is a mosiac of a period of time, earthed by Beatty's natural charm and the romance of Bryant and Reed. Warren Beatty was a force of… 1 A bold and stunning epic that tells the story of John Reed, idealist and author of Ten Days That Shook The World, and the only American to be buried within the Kremlin.

It's easy to say that this is Warren Beatty's film - after all he raised the necessary funds to make it, co-wrote it alongside the Mancunian playwright Trevor Griffiths (author of the excellent 1970s TV series Bill Brand, about an idealistic young Labour MP), produced, directed and starred in it - but that would be making a glaring omission, because Beatty fills the film not only with great supporting actors and cameo performances, but also with 'the witnesses', the real contemporaries of Reed and his wife Louise Bryant… Review by Alec Price ★★★★★ One of the most impressive passion projects ever undertaken by a major star - and, at that time, there were few bigger than Warren Beatty - Reds is a truly remarkable film. Taking on directing, producing, co-writing and starring duties, it is, first and foremost, a formidable work of big canvas storytelling, with Beatty managing to evoke the enormous breadth of scope of David Lean's grand epics with the intimate character-driven, counter-cultural films of the New American Cinema.

The richly realised dramatisation of the intertwining lives of radical journalist-turned-socialist activist John Reed (Beatty) and his wife, the feminist writer Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), is scripted and performed with great intelligence and nuance, and Beatty directs throughout with patience and care,… Review by JC13 ★★★½ "I'd like to see you with your pants off, Mr. Reed." Reds was written and directed by Warren Beatty and he also stars in one of the lead roles in this Oscar winning Drama about an American journalist who becomes involved in the Communist movement in Russia. Beatty is very good in his role and Diane Keaton also puts in some strong work in the other lead role. Maureen Stapleton won an Oscar for her performance and she is very good as well. The main reason I watched this one was for the incomparable Jack Nicholson. He's not in the film a lot (he has a decent amount of time), but he manages to leave his mark. Gene Hackman is… 1000+ images about reds on Pinterest | Jack nicholson, Russian revolution and Plays Forward Reds (1981) dir. by Warren Beatty.

The film, based on actual events, tells the story of John Reed (Beatty), American Communist, journalist and activist, whose love affair with writer/feminist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) unfolds against the explosive backdrop of the Russian Revolution. See More Reds (2-DVD, 25th Anniversary Edition) (1981) Starring Jack Nicholson & Warren Beatty; Directed by Warren Beatty; Starring Diane Keaton; Paramount | OLDIES.com "...Keaton is nothing less than splendid....REDS is an extremely fine film." Entertainment Weekly - 10/20/2006 "A rabble-rousing tour de force....The movie is political, educational, provocative...It is also intellectually stirring..." -- Grade: A New York Times - 10/04/2006 "REDS remains a superior history lesson, thanks to Mr.

Beatty's thorough command of the material and to his inclusion of real-life 'witnesses' to the life and times of Reed." Rolling Stone - 11/30/2006 "Beatty's passion is indisputable." Entertainment Weekly - 12/29/2006 Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 DVDs Of The Year" -- "[T]he movie has only increased in power and relevance." Total Film - 05/01/2007 4 stars out of 5 -- "Beatty and Keaton give career-best performances and Jack Nicholson, as ever, steals all his scenes..." Sight and Sound - 04/01/2007 "There is plenty to admire here....It takes a certain gumption to make a three-hour Hollywood epic centered on the Russian revolution." Product Description: Riding high after the box office success of SHAMPOO and HEAVEN CAN WAIT, Warren Beatty used his seemingly limitless power to write, produce, direct, and star in this epic historical romance.

The film recounts a particularly eventful period in the life of notorious American communist John Reed (Beatty), who journeyed to Russia to witness the Bolshevik Revolution firsthand. Before that, he met the already wed Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) in Portland in 1915. However, they shared such a mutual attraction for words, and each other, that soon Bryant was living with Reed in New York City. It was here where they befriended some of the early 20th Century's most recognizable faces: Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson), Emma Goldman (Maureen Stapleton), Max Eastman (Richard Herrmann), and Horace Whigham (George Plimpton). Yet Reed's commitment to his craft caused an endless friction in the relationship, until Louise found her own journalistic voice, leading the couple to Russia at a crucial moment in history. But just when they appeared to have come to a perfect place in their relationship, tragedy struck. REDS is one of the last vestiges of early Hollywood, a broad, sweeping spectacle that is simultaneously thought provoking and unabashedly entertaining. Beatty inserts fascinating interviews with actual participants from that earlier era throughout the film to provide even more context and insight.

At a time when Ronald Reagan had just become the president of the United States, Beatty's sympathetic portrait of notorious American communist John Reed seemed even more daring. Yet, as it continues to age, the film only continues to grow in relevance, assuring its rightful place at the top of the Hollywood canon. Plot Synopsis: Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "Reds" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, the two journalists' on-again off-again romance is punctuated by the outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution. Louise's assignment in France at the outbreak of the war puts an end to their affair. John Reed's subsequent trip to Russia, and his involvement with the Communist party, rekindles their relationship. When Louise arrives in Petrograd, she finds herself swept up in the euphoria of the Revolution. Reed, however, eventually becomes disillusioned with Communism when he sees his words and intentions augmented and controlled by the growing Soviet propaganda machine.

Keywords: Film/Classics: Reds "Reds" Directed by Warren Beatty, starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Maureen Stapleton, color, 1981, 197 minutes Cover of Blue-ray disk for "Reds" By Carter B. Horsley Reds" is perhaps the most intellectual film of all time. It is about the Russian Revolution. It is about a young American, John Reed, who wrote a great history of that revolution, "Ten Days That Shook The World." Its makes extensive use of fascinating new interviews of people who were involved in the revolution. Its narrative also involves the story of Louise Bryant, who was the lover of Reed and Eugene O'Neill. It was created during the Cold War and won an Academy Award for best direction. Warren Beatty was widely regarded as America's sexiest man and as a major playboy, thus making his achievement in creating this epic movie all the more remarkable. He played the lead role of John Reed and directed and produced the film. "Reds" is the most political film of all time. Beatty's great daring, however, was not entirely successful.

He and his three other top stars were all nominated for Academy Awards, but only Stapleton won. Beatty and Keaton lost out to the routine and safe performances of Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn in "On Golden Pond" and Nicholson lost to John Gielgud in the insipid "Arthur." The film lost Best Picture to "Chariots of Fire," that was notable mainly for its very popular score by Vangelis, the great synthesist even though it was his worst score. The Academy Awards are more popularity contests than critical judgments so the film's three Oscars, including one for Vincent Storaro's cinematography, is still impressive given the general anti-intellectualism of America. In his very fine review in The New York Times December 4, 1981, Vincent Canby observed that the movie is "a large, remarkably rich, romantic film that dramatizes - in a way that no other commercial movie...has ever done - the excitement of being young, idealistc, and foolish in a time when everything still seemed possible." Canby lingers on this thought: "Only the very narrow-minded will see the film as Communist propaganda.

Though Reed remained at his death a card-carrying Communist and was buried in the Kremlin, the movie is essentiallly as ideological as the puppy that whimpers when Louise stalks out. 'Reds' is not about Communism, but about a particular era, and a particularly moving kind of American optimism that had its roots in the 19th Century." Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty in "Reds" Mr. Canby corrected praised the use of the "witnesses": "there are more than two dozen of them - who make up a kind of Greek chorus, the members of which appear from time to time throughout 'Reds' to set the film in historical perspective, as much by what they remember accurately as by their gossip and by what they longer recall. It's an extraordinary device, but 'Reds' is an extraordinary film, a big romantic adventure movie, the best since David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia,' as well as a commercial movie with a rare sense of history." "The film," Mr.

Canby continued, "which begins with a montage of Reed's exploits while covering Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1913, moves from Portland to Greenwich Village; to Provincetown, Mass., where Reeed and Louise helped form the famous Provincetown Players with Eugene O'Neill and others; to France, before United States entry into the war, and finally to Russia, where Reed and Louise were coverning the successful Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Theirs is the kind of story only a third-rate novelist would dare make up." In other hands, it could be slapstick with Harrison Ford and his whip leading Indiana Jones's non-historical charges. And that is why it is such an important movie. It was real and to many Americans it was an amazing story almost lost in the turmoil of World War I and then distorted in the contortions of the eventual Cold War that made too many Americans forget the idealism of the origins of Russian Communism admidst the slander and blasphemy of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his virulent anti-Communism.

It is a story that is hard for many post-Cold War babies to fathom, whose for whom Communism is a far-off, fringe politics that was "put down," "defeated" and "dead." There must be some people who believe that it "failed" because of poor leadership and many mistakes and that its basic principles still held some important validity. Mr. Canby argues, effectively, that what was "Most astonishing is the way movie...avoids the patently absurd...and the secret...is that the film sees Reed and Louise as history's golden children, crass and self-obsessed but genuinely committed to causes they don't yet fully understand." The movie, he added, dramatizes "the excitement of being young, idealistic and foolish in a time when everything still seemed possible." The movie was named the best picture of 1981 by the New York Film Critics Circle. Yet Beatty, who starred in such very serious films as "The Parallax View" and "Mickey One," is no Pollyanna. His enthusiasms as Reed are not naive and foolish. He became part of really important history and his book about it is is very important document, especially for non-Russians.

Louise Bryant met Reed in 1912 at a lecture in Portland, Oregon, where she was married, and is impressed with his claim that "profit" is the reason for wars. They have an affair and move to Greenwich Village and she becomes a feminist and radical and he gets involved in labor and the American Communist Labor Party. She has an affair with O'Neill but still marries Reed but when Reed admits to infidelity she goes to Europe as a war correspondent and he soon follows. According to Wikipedia, Beatty mentioned making a film about Reed to Dede Allen, the film editor, in 1966 and he finished a script three years later. In 1976, he decided to collaborate on the script with Trevor Griffiths and they allegedly also got script imput from Elaine May.

In his book, "Pauline Kael, A Life in The Dark," Brian Kellow recounts that Kael, the famous film critic, "was dead set against the Reed film and repeatedly tried to talk Beatty out of it, warning him that it wa a pompous, grandiose idea, and accusing him of trying to reinvent himself as the new David Lean." When it opened, she conceded that it was a movie with "an enormous amount of dedication and intelligence," but added that the witnesses were "all muchpeppier and more vital than the actors" and that Diane Keaton's Bryant was presented as a "tiresome, pettishly hostile woman." She also felt that the movie portrayed Reed as "pussywhipped," a phrase that William Shawn, the editor of The New Yorker, did not like. The film's cast is impressive: Edward Herrmann as Max Eastman, Jerzy Kosinski as Gregory Zinoview, Paul Sorvino as Louis Fraina, George Plimpton as Horace Whigham, and Gene Hackman as Pete Van Wherry. The witnesses included Henry Miller, Roger Baldwin, Adela Rogers St. John, Hamilton Rish, and Andrew Dasburg.

The first half of the movie concerns itself mostly with pre-Moscow love interests and squabbling and a great fight between Keaton and Warren, but the movie picks up a lot of steam and drama in the second half's labor and political meetings. It shows that Reed not was no mere chronicler but an active participant in momentous events. It also shows that the birth of Russian communism was not easy and very complicated and such forthrightness is the film's greatness. [A few years after the film came out, I took my mother to a cultural event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and while we were having drinks in the large lobby I got very annoyed with my mother about something and the only thing that stopped me from raising my voice even higher was that Diane Keaton came up to my mother with a friend. I really wanted to stay and meet her but I was so livid that I moved away while they chatted for several minutes. I calmed down but my mother and I didn't talk until the intermission and then didn't raise the subject. My mother and I very rarely argued and were very close and the memory of this minor incident shames me, but I have never hesitated speaking my mind.

It doesn't help much, however, when you're wrong....] This film is ranked 53rd in Carter B. Horsley's list of the Top 500 Sound Films REDS : Watch online now with Amazon Instant Video: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton: Amazon.co.uk By Jason Parkes #1 HALL OF FAME on 12 Feb. 2007 Format: DVD Verified Purchase Reds is the brilliant biopic of journalist/radical John Reed that Warren Beatty directed in 1981. This was a labour of love for Beatty, who had built up power in Hollywood to make this suitably epic film on such films as Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. The film is very long, which could put off many- though it shouldn't as the material is of immense interest. This highly ambitious film opens with Reed living among bohemians/radicals in New York & Provincetown and charts his love affair with both Louise Bryant and communism. The first part of the film is more successful, where Bryant/Reed's affair goes up & down and Jack Nicholson comes between them in a brilliant portrayal of playwright Eugene O'Neill.

This section is wonderfully photographed by Vittorio Storaro, the photographer of such brilliant films as The Conformist and Apocalypse Now Redux. Then as the relationship develops into marriage, various spectres rise: the conflict between love & principles, World War I and the complex world of socialism in America at that time (the so-called Red Decade). The latter half of the film, which sees Reed and Bryant go to Russia, where the revolution occurred and Reed wrote his classic account of it Ten Days That Shook the World. Again, Moscow looks stunning- though the film descends into a more conventional form- we get a sub-Zhivago reunion , Keaton's proto-feminist character is neutueured by devotion and we even get an action sequence (though this does end with the symbolic Reed chasing after a cart- the same shot as we saw from the opening shot of Reed in Mexico). The final scenes, where Reed is TB afflicted and Bryant sees a young child (the obligatory one they never had) is extremely conventional and melodramatic.

Read more › Warren Beatty - Biography - IMDb Warren Beatty Biography Showing all 119 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (84) | Personal Quotes (17) | Salary (9) Overview (4) 6' 2" (1.88 m) Mini Bio (1) Since starring in his first film, Splendor in the Grass (1961), Warren Beatty has been said to have demonstrated a greater longevity in movies than any actor of his generation. Few people have taken so many responsibilities for all phases of the production of films as producer, director, writer, and actor, and few have evidenced so high a level of integrity in a body of work. In Rules Don't Apply (2016), he writes, produces, directs and stars in. Only Beatty and Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) have been nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an actor, a director, a writer, and a producer for the same film.

Beatty is the only person ever to have done it twice, for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and again for Reds (1981). Beatty has been nominated 15 times by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and 8 films he has produced have earned 53 Academy nominations. In 1982 he won the Academy Award for Directing and in 2000 was given the Academy's highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. He was awarded Best Director from the Directors Guild of America and Best Writer three times from the Writers Guild of America. He has received the Milestone Award from the Producers Guild, the Board of Governors Award from the American Society of Cinematographers, the Directors Award from the Costume Designers Guild, the Life Achievement Award from the Publicists Guild, and the Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award from the Art Directors Guild. The National Association of Theater Owners has honored him as Director of the Year, as Producer of the Year and as Actor of the Year. He has won 16 awards from the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics, the National Board of Review, and the Golden Globes.

In 1992, he was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France; in Italy he received the David di Donatello award in 1968 and again in 1981 and its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998; in 2001, he received the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Sebastian International Film Festival; in 2002, he received the British Academy Fellowship from BAFTA; and in 2011, he was awarded the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film. In December 2004, Beatty received The Kennedy Center Honor in Washington, D.C. In addition, he is the recipient of the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, the HFPA Cecile B. DeMille Award and many others. Politically active since the 1960's, Beatty campaigned with Robert F. Kennedy in his 1968 presidential campaign. That same year he traveled throughout the United States speaking in favor of gun control and against the war in Vietnam. In 1972 he took a year off from motion pictures to campaign with George McGovern.

In 1981, Beatty was a founding board member of the Center for National Policy. He is a founding member of The Progressive Majority, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has participated in the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. Beatty serves on the Board of Directors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation. He previously served on the Board of Trustees of The Scripps Research Institute for several years. He has received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from the Americans for Democratic Action, the Brennan Legacy Award from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, and the Philip Burton Public Service Award from The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. In multiple forums he has addressed campaign finance reform, the increasing disparity of wealth, universal health care and the need for the Democratic Party to return to its roots. In March of 2013, he was inducted into the California Hall of Fame. Beatty was born in Richmond, Virginia. He and his wife, Annette Bening , live in Los Angeles and have four children.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: 20th Century Fox Spouse (1) ( 3 March 1992 - present) (4 children) Trade Mark (3) Films often portray edgy, iconoclastic anti-heroes Known on-screen and off-screen for being highly charming to women Method acting Trivia (84) His political views expounded by the "new" Jay Bulworth in the movie Bulworth (1998) are really his own. He and older sister Shirley MacLaine attended Washington-Lee HS (as did Sandra Bullock ). Attended Northwestern University but dropped out after one year. Member Sigma Chi fraternity. He is the godfather of Steven Bauer and Melanie Griffith 's son, Alexander. Was the first choice to play Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but he turned it down. Was originally cast as the president in Mars Attacks! (1996). Was the first choice to play the lead in The Way We Were (1973). Received ten offers of football scholarship after graduating from high school. He turned them all down. Lives on famed "Bad Boy Drive" a.k.a. Muholland Drive in Beverly Hills, CA.

Nicknamed so because its famed residents are bad boy actors Marlon Brando , Jack Nicholson , and Beatty. Is allergic to oysters. Uncle of actress Sachi Parker . Turned down the role of Bill in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) because of the violent nature of the movie. Tested for the role of Tony in West Side Story (1961). Rumored to have been the subject of Carly Simon 's 1972 hit single "You're So Vain". After 43 years of speculation, Simon finally confirmed in November 2015 that the second verse of the song refers to Beatty. "Warren thinks the whole thing is about him!" she said. He has a photographic memory for phone numbers. He can dial a touch tone phone using the same hand technique as telephone operators. In the films he produces, he usually plays characters who lose something important by the end of the film. Recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, along with Elton John , Joan Sutherland , John Williams , and Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee .

Based his Shampoo (1975) character "George Roundy" on celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring . Was an advisor on George McGovern 's 1972 presidential campaign. Credited with founding the concept of a political fund-raising concert when he and girlfriend Julie Christie backed the "Together with McGovern" concert in 1972 featuring Barbra Streisand , Carole King , James Taylor and even reuniting Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel ( Simon & Garfunkel ). Was nominated for Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as best supporting or featured actor (dramatic) for "A Loss of Roses", later filmed as The Stripper (1963) with Richard Beymer in Beatty's role. He directed seven different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Jack Warden , Dyan Cannon , Diane Keaton , Jack Nicholson , Maureen Stapleton , Al Pacino and himself (in Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Reds (1981). Maureen Stapleton won an Oscar for her performance in Reds (1981).

Premiere Magazine ranked him as #29 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005). Was slated to play the lead role in Francis Ford Coppola 's dead project "Megaoplis". John F. Kennedy wanted Beatty to play him in PT 109 (1963), after learning that director Elia Kazan had said that if anybody were to play JFK, it should be Beatty since they had so much in common. As Kazan stated, "Warren had everything Jack had. looks, intelligence, cunning and a commanding eye with the girls. Warren also suffered from lower back trouble". Kennedy himself suggested Beatty to Warner Bros to play him. Jack L. Warner asked Beatty to fly over to Washington to meet JFK and talk about the movie with him, but Beatty did not want to make the trip, nor play the part. He found the script too weak and that there was a surprising lack of action. His assessment turned out to be right: Cliff Robertson played the part and the movie flopped.

Months later, JFK and Beatty met and Kennedy had to concede that Beatty's decision not to make the movie had been right. Beatty and Kennedy remained very good friends up until Kennedy's death in 1963. Along with Robert Redford , Clint Eastwood , Mel Gibson , Richard Attenborough and Kevin Costner , he is one of six people to win and Academy Award for "Best Director", though they are mainly known as actors. Said that if they ever made a movie about his life story, Colin Farrell is the only person he thinks could play him. Cohabited with Julie Christie from 1967 to '74, albeit non-monogamously and with many on-again/off-again moments. His uncle by marriage, A.A. MacLeod, was the last sitting Communist member of the Canadian Parliament. Rejected Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) because he wanted to work with George Stevens on The Only Game in Town (1970), which had a long and tedious production and turned out to be a disastrous flop.

(Then-companion Julie Christie also turned down "Horses" and opted to make the sub-par In Search of Gregory (1969) because it was to be shot on location in Europe nearby where Beatty was making the Stevens film.) He turned down The Sting (1973) and The Great Gatsby (1974) so that he could devote his time to George McGovern 's presidential campaign. Beatty first espied future long-term lover Julie Christie at the 1966 Royal Command Performance of Born Free (1966) in London, which he attended with his then-girlfriend Leslie Caron . Caron and Beatty were situated near Christie in the reception line for Queen Elizabeth II , and Beatty first saw her in person when he turned to watch the Queen shake hands with her. Beatty inveigled his friend Richard Sylbert to tell her to call him. She did, he flew up to the San Francisco location of the Petulia (1968) shoot and, after a rocky start, they became lovers. She made her first public appearance with Beatty at a sneak preview of Bonnie and Clyde (1967) for the Hollywood elite.

It took them several months to rid themselves of their then-current lovers before they came together in a committed relationship, although they usually maintained separate households for the length of their long romance. Most of those who knew them said they shared a passion for the truth. Beatty told his friends he had asked Christie to marry him, but she refused as she did not want children. While filming Shampoo (1975) in 1974, Beatty bought his dream house and brought Christie over to view it. When she realized he had already assigned several rooms as nurseries, it dawned on her that their ideas for the future were too far apart to be able to maintain their relationship. She ended her long affair with him by phone in the fall of 1974. His longest and most lasting relationship until he married Annette Bening , the mother of his four children, Beatty considered Christie his wife and told the press in 1971 that he would pay her alimony if they split up, if she wanted it. They did, but she didn't.

When he was awarded the Irving Thalberg Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in 2000, Christie was one of the friends and co-workers who appeared in a filmed tribute to him. Became close to Robert F. Kennedy during his 1968 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Beatty's relationship with him was closer than the one Beatty had with John F. Kennedy . Beatty was particularly valuable during the campaign in firing up volunteers for such mundane activities as door-to-door canvassing. RFK was impressed by Beatty's thorough understanding of the issues. After Kennedy's assassination in Beatty's hometown of Los Angeles, he became a vocal gun control advocate. Once worked as a cocktail lounge pianist. Has produced two films that were nominated for Best Picture and had acting nominations in all four roles: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Reds (1981) After coming to New York at 19 to pursue an acting career, he temporarily supported himself by working as a sandhog during the building of a new tube of the Lincoln Tunnel between New York and New Jersey.

He is the only person to be nominated for four Academy Awards (Best Picture, Directing, Lead Actor & Screenplay) in the same year in two-times. First for Heaven Can Wait (1978), later for Reds (1981). Oliver Stone tried casting him twice--once as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (1987) and then as Richard M. Nixon in Nixon (1995). His performance as Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is ranked #32 on the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains. This is ranking he shares with Faye Dunaway , who portrayed Bonnie Parker . Turned down the role of Jack Horner in Boogie Nights (1997). He later said that it was one of the few choices in his career that he regretted. Burt Reynolds garnered an Academy Award nomination for his performance in the film. Received the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award at The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000), presented to him by his friend and neighbor Jack Nicholson .

A political liberal, he personally campaigned for South Dakota Senator George McGovern in the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential primary in 1972. What's New Pussycat (1965), a name he often called girlfriends, was written for him, but he turned down the role when Leslie Caron --his girlfriend at the time--was turned down by producers for the female lead. Long planned a biopic of Howard Hughes to produce and star in. It has yest to be made and it's uncertain whether or not he has actually completed a script or if he also plans on directing it. Was offered the lead role in Jade (1995) but turned it down. David Caruso signed on to star instead. Was offered the role of Richard Nixon twice in his career: with Oliver Stone in Nixon (1995) and with Ron Howard in Frost/Nixon (2008). Claims he was offered the lead role in Rocky (1976). Turned down a role in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969).

Has expressed interest in producing, directing and starring in a live-action Pokemon movie, with himself playing the villain Giovanni, as Pokemon is his youngest's and second youngest's favorite cartoon. His two favorite cartoon characters are Daffy Duck (who is his all-time favorite) and Johnny Bravo. Only three times in Academy Award history have director-collaborators been nominated for Best Directing Oscars: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007) (Wise/Robbins and the Coens actually won the award). Despite their political differences, he is good friends with John McCain and Nancy Reagan . He was also a longtime friend of Ronald Reagan since his early career in Hollywood. As President, Reagan invited Beatty to screen his film Reds (1981) at the White House. He and Clint Eastwood are the only actor-directors to earn Best Actor and Best Director Oscar nominations for the same film two separate times.

Played two characters whose names differ by one letter: Joe Grady in The Only Game in Town (1970) and Joe Frady in The Parallax View (1974). In September 2000 he was set to star in Steven Zaillian 's adaptation of the Geoffrey Wolff book "The Duke of Deception". Zaillian had completed the script and was set to direct for producer Scott Rudin and Paramount. However, Beatty's procrastination pushed the project back and eventually Zaillian moved on. At the time Beatty was also attached to star in Quentin Tarantino 's "Kill Bill", but he eventually left that project as well. When he made his deal with Warner Bros. for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), the studio had such little faith in the future box-office results from the $2.5-million production that it agreed to give the film's star and first-time producer 40% of the box-office gross. The deal worked out quite well for Beatty. Between 1967-73 when the film played in theaters, it generated over $70 million worldwide at the box office, netting Beatty an estimated $28 million.

In 1989, while working on Dick Tracy (1990), he came across a script titled "Ocean of Storms". It was a love story about an aging astronaut who rejoins the lunar program for another shot at glory and falls for a female astronaut. It was written by documentary producer Ben Young Mason and veteran writer, producer, director and actor Tony Bill . Beatty bought the script through his Mulholland Productions and set it up at 20th Century-Fox. He planned on producing and starring in this as his next project after he completed his commitments on Bugsy (1991). However, like most Beatty projects, it was stalled in development. By 1993 he was working with Annette Bening on Love Affair (1994) and was planning on making "Ocean of Storms" their next project. He was trying to convince Martin Scorsese to direct it and hired Wesley Strick to do a rewrite for Scorsese. Scorsese eventually passed on the project but Beatty continued to develop it over the years, with rewrites from a slew of screenwriters including Robert Towne , Lawrence Wright , Stephen Harrigan and finally Aaron Sorkin .

By 1999 Clint Eastwood and Warner Bros. had beaten Beatty to the punch by announcing their own aging astronaut movie, Space Cowboys (2000). After the success of that film, and the box-office flops of both Love Affair (1994) and Bulworth (1998), Beatty and 20th Century-Fox decided to cancel their plans to make "Ocean of Storms". He has English, Scottish and distant Irish and Danish ancestry. Has never directed or acted with his sister Shirley MacLaine in any films. Became a father for the second time at age 57 when wife Annette Bening gave birth to their son Benjamin Beatty on August 23, 1994. Became a father for the third time at age 59 when wife Annette Bening gave birth to their daughter Isabel Beatty on January 11, 1997. Became a father for the fourth time at age 63 when wife Annette Bening gave birth to their daughter Ella Beatty on April 8, 2000.

Became a father for the first time at age 54 when girlfriend [now wife] Annette Bening gave birth to their daughter Kathlyn Beatty on January 8, 1992. He was a mentor to Diane Keaton . As of 2014 has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981) and Bugsy (1991). He was the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of the superhero Green Lantern/Charlie Vicker (created in 1967). Eldest daughter Kathlyn transitioned to male at the age of 14 and changed her name from Kathlyn Elizabeth to Stephen Ira Beatty.

Along with Orson Welles , Laurence Olivier , Woody Allen , Kenneth Branagh , Clint Eastwood and Roberto Benigni , he is one of only seven men to receive Academy Award nominations for both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film: Welles for Citizen Kane (1941), Olivier for Hamlet (1948), Allen for Annie Hall (1977), Beatty for both Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Reds (1981), Branagh for Henry V (1989), Eastwood for Unforgiven (1992) and Benigni for Life Is Beautiful (1997). His 40% of the box-office gross from Bonnie and Clyde (1967) netted him somewhere in the neighborhood of $28 million. The film played in theaters for six years. Based on the value of $28 million and its buying power in 1973, it would be the equivalent of having an estimated $150 million in 2016. This makes it one of the largest back-end deals for a movie star in Hollywood history.

His mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and his father, Ira Owens Beaty, a PhD. of educational psychology, public school administrator and real estate dealer, was from Virginia. Christopher Ciccone claimed in his memoir that he once saw a suspicious Beatty rifling through the wastebasket in Madonna 's home office at 3 a.m. looking for evidence she was cheating on him. He showed interest in playing Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy (1969) but John Schlesinger thought Beatty was too famous to be believable as a naive street hustler. Was the original choice to play billionaire John Gates in Indecent Proposal (1993). Beatty and Jane Fonda did a screen test for the roles that eventually went to Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens in Parrish (1961). Considered for the role of Superman/Clark Kent in Superman (1978). Turned down title role in the political comedy Dave (1993). Claimed that director Luchino Visconti begged him to star in The Leopard (1963) but he wasn't interested so Alain Delon was cast instead.

Unequivocally the most selective and least prolific star in cinema history. Beatty has only made 23 movies to date in a film career spanning 55 years. One popular theory as to why he turned down so many roles, at least until his marriage in 1992, is that he didn't like interrupting his prolific intimate life by going to work. Notable women who rejected his advances include Carmen Phillips , Kim Novak and Sean Young . Fran Drescher claims to have turned down an offer to join Beatty and Isabelle Adjani for a ménage à trois (mentioned in her autobiography). Britt Ekland on Beatty: He knew exactly where to locate the top button. One flick and we were on our way. Cher on Beatty: Warren has probably been with everybody I know. Warren Beatty is still the only person in Academy Award history that was twice nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as an actor, writer, director and producer of the same film ( Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Reds (1981)). [2016].

Personal Quotes (17) [on his attitude toward movie promotion] In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards. Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch. Lenin ( V.I. Lenin ) said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics. I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out. Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer. When asked why he never married any of his many girlfriends: Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow. In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards. My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties.

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. Polygamy is dumb fun. Monogamy requires much more sensitivity. [on Stanley Kubrick ] It was common knowledge that Stanley always knew something you didn't. Marlon Brando was more than a uniquely gifted and influential actor. He was also an aroused citizen with broad social perspectives. Generous with his friendship and candid personal insights, he was an endlessly entertaining good neighbor. Annette [ Annette Bening ] and I will miss him very much. [on doing stunts] You try to measure up the safety concerns with the adrenaline concerns, the narcissism concerns, and the ambition concerns, and hope you don't make a mistake. Usually I'd wear some kind of pad if I was going to fall. A director needs to be in control, but he really shouldn't be in complete control, because then things could be very boring, and he wouldn't take advantage of unexpected developments and opportunities. There are people who storyboard everything. I don't do that. I'll storyboard some stuff, but mainly I'm ready for the unexpected.

I think that's important. You can't plan too much. I always think of a quote from Napoleon when they asked him to explain the intricacies of his battle plan. He said, 'Well here's the plan. First we go there, and then we see what happens.' It's best not to act and direct at the same time. When I direct myself, I do more takes than if I'm being directed by someone else. Rather than stop and look at it, I just do it again. And I like to have my fellow actors feel that they're directing it at the same time. I try to lead them into thinking it's sort of a fake democracy, when it's actually, ultimately, kind of a fascist dictatorship, one would have to admit. [asked about his many loves] I have only one, Annette. Salary (9)

Question: 1981 film set in Russia, produced, directed and starring Warren Beatty. Also starring Dianne Keaton
Answer: Reds