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Encyclopedia > Robert Benton

Robert Benton (born September 29, 1932 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American screenwriter and film director. September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Waxahachie is a city located in Ellis County, Texas. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...


He has an enjoyed a highly successful career in film, winning numerous prestigious awards for both writing and directing. He was also the art director at Esquire magazine in the early 1960s. Esquire (abbreviated Esq. ...

Contents

Filmography

Directing

Charles Baxter is an American author born in 1947 in Minneapolis. ... Radha Mitchell and Jodelle Ferland as Rose and Sharon Da Silva in the film Silent Hill. ... The Human Stain (2000) is a novel by Philip Roth, who was born in New Jersey in 1933. ... Twilight was a thriller movie made in 1998 directed by Robert Benton. ... Nobodys Fool is a 1994 drama film which tells the story of an aging man whose estranged son comes back into his life at the same time that he faces challenges in his home and in his employment. ... Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E.L. Doctorow that won the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize [1]. The story is told in the first person by Billy Bathgate Behan, a fifteen year old boy who first... Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Kimila Ann Basinger (pronounced ) (born December 8, 1953 in Athens, Georgia) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. ... Rip Torn as Chief Zed in the film Men in Black. ... Places in the Heart is a 1984 drama film which tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man. ... Roy Richard Scheider (born November 10, 1932) is an American actor. ... Meryl Streep (born Mary Louise Streep on June 22, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award winning American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. ... Jessica Tandy, christened Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was a noted Academy Award-winning English theatre, film and TV actress who became an American citizen. ... Kramer vs. ... The Best Bits of The Late Show: Champagne Edition (DVD) The Late Show was a popular Australian comedy show, which ran for two seasons on the ABC from 18 July 1992 to 30 October 1993. ... Bad Company were an English hard rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free (Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke), Mott The Hoople (Mick Ralphs) and King Crimson (Boz Burrell). ...

Writing

The Ice Harvest is a 2005 neo-noir/comedy-drama film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Richard Russo and Robert Benton, based on the novel of the same name by Scott Phillips. ... Harold Ramis (born November 21, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, director, and writer. ... Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, Superman Superman, also known as Superman: The Movie, is a 1978 Warner Bros. ... Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg on April 24, 1930) is an American film director and also producer through the production company, The Donners Company, he and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler-Donner, own. ... Its A Bird, Its A Plane, Its Superman is a musical with music Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, with a book by David Newman and Robert Benson. ... Oh! Calcutta! was a long-running theatrical revue, debuting off-Broadway in 1969, created by British critic Kenneth Tynan. ... Whats Up, Doc? is a screwball comedy from 1972, directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan ONeal, and Madeline Kahn (in her first full-length film role). ... Peter Bogdanovich Peter Bogdanovich (born July 30, 1939) is an American film director and writer, born in Kingston, New York. ... There Was a Crooked Man. ... Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909–February 6, 1993) was an American Hollywood screenwriter, director and producer. ... Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is a film about Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who roamed the United States Southwest robbing banks during the Great Depression. ... Arthur Penn (born September 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a film director of thoughtful films that dont always find an audience. ...

Film Awards

Wins

Preceded by
Michael Cimino
for The Deer Hunter
Academy Award for Best Director
1979
for Kramer vs. Kramer
Succeeded by
Robert Redford
for Ordinary People

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ... The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... DGA Headquarters in Hollywood, California Directors Guild of America (DGA) is the labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry. ... Poster for the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival Box office at the Manulife Centre The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is widely considered to be one of the top film festivals in the world and is the premiere film festival in North America from which the Oscars race begins. ... The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... Michael Cimino (born February 3, 1939 in New York City, New York) is an American film director. ... The Deer Hunter is a 1978 English language film that tells the fictional story of a group of Rusyn-American steel workers during the Vietnam War era. ... The Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ... Kramer vs. ... Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Nominations

  • 1968 - Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Bonnie and Clyde
  • 1968 - Golden Globe for Best Screenplay for Bonnie and Clyde
  • 1978 - Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for The Late Show
  • 1980 - Golden Globe for Best Director - Motion Picture for Kramer vs. Kramer
  • 1981 - César Award for Best Foreign Film for Kramer vs. Kramer
  • 1985 - Academy Award for Directing for Places in the Heart
  • 1980 - Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for Places in the Heart
  • 1985 - Golden Globe for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture for Places in the Heart
  • 1995 - Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Nobody's Fool

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Robert Benton @ Filmbug (290 words)
Robert Benton won his first Oscars for writing and directing Kramer vs. Kramer which was adapted from the novel by Avery Corman.
Benton's most recent directorial effort was the crime drama Twilight starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman.
Benton's auspicious entry into the film business came as co-writer, with David Newman, of the screenplay for the 1967 classic Bonnie and Clyde which earned 10 Academy Award nominations including Best Screenplay.
Human Stain and Robert Benton and Jean-Yves Escoffier and Miramax and Technique and Stephen Nakamura and Grass Valley ... (3262 words)
Oscar-winning director Robert Benton was devastated at the death of cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier earlier this year from heart failure shortly after the two had completed working together on Benton's new film for Miramax, The Human Stain.
Given his relationship with Escoffier, Benton was content to simply articulate his visual concept for the dark and complex story based on a Philip Roth novel about a college professor in a small New England town who has a secret.
Benton, for his part, is convinced that he already has a better visual product, and he insists that is mainly because of Escoffier's in-camera contribution and his firm guidance of the digital intermediate process.
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