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Born February 20, 1925 • Kansas City • Missouri
Died November 20, 2006 (aged 81) • Los Angeles • California • (Anniversary in 7 days)
Awards And Honors Academy Award (2006)
Notable Works “A Prairie Home Companion” • “Buffalo Bill and the Indians; or, Sitting Bull’s History Lesson” • “California Split” • “Cookie’s Fortune” • “Countdown” • “Dr. T & The Women” • “Gosford Park” • “MASH” • “McCabe and Mrs. Miller” • “Nashville” • “Popeye” • “Prêt-à-Porter” • “Short Cuts” • “Tanner ’88” • “The Gingerbread Man” • “The Long Goodbye” • “The Player” • “Thieves Like Us” • “Three Women”

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Film director Robert Altman stands with arms crossed in a yellow jacket and white cap among crew and equipment on the set of Thieves Like Us.
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Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould dressed in colorful golf outfits stand with clubs in front of a military helicopter in a scene from the film M*A*S*H.
Robert Altman
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Robert Redford as Bill McKay stands at a microphone in a suit and striped tie, with a large campaign poster of himself in the background, in the film The Candidate.
Robert Redford
American actor and director
Master of suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
English-born American director
Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Woody Allen speaking into a microphone with hands raised beside his face during a press conference, against a red background.
Woody Allen
American director, writer, and actor
Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker
Clint Eastwood wearing a light suit and olive shirt with tie, standing outdoors at the Cannes Film Festival.
Clint Eastwood
American actor and director
George Cukor
George Cukor
American film director
Mike Nichols, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, stands smiling at a podium with a star-shaped award in front of him at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Mike Nichols
American director
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack
American director, producer, and actor
Mel Brooks in a tuxedo smiles widely and points at his Emmy Award trophy while posing in front of a blue Emmy Awards backdrop.
Mel Brooks
American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
Barbara Kopple
Barbara Kopple
American director
Ben Affleck wearing a dark suit, blue shirt, and navy tie, posing for a photo at the premiere of the film AIR with a blurred event backdrop behind him.
Ben Affleck
American actor, writer, and director
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington
American actor
George Clooney wearing a black suit and shirt, smiling outdoors with palm trees and a bright sky in the background at the Cannes Film Festival.
George Clooney
American actor and director
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh
American director
Kevin Spacey, wearing a tuxedo, stands onstage smiling and speaking at a microphone during the 2017 British Academy Britannia Awards in Beverly Hills.
Kevin Spacey
American actor
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Delbert Mann
American director
Sean Penn at the Hammond Cinema Vanguard Award Tribute during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, seated in front of a backdrop with film festival text.
Sean Penn
American actor
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
American director, producer, and screenwriter
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin
American writer and producer

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