Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty (born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. Only Beatty and Orson Welles 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 did it twice, for... Read More

Warren Beatty (born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director.

Only Beatty and Orson Welles 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 did it twice, for HEAVEN CAN WAIT and again for REDS. Welles once for CITIZEN KANE. Beatty has been nominated fifteen times in these categories and eight pictures he has produced have earned 53 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 has been nominated for 18 Golden Globe awards, and been awarded 5. In 2008, he received the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the HFPA. In 2004, he received The Kennedy Center Honor in Washington, D.C. In 2008, Beatty received the American Film Institute's highest honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award.

He has four children with his wife, actress Annette Bening. See Less