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Warren Beatty: Academy Awards
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LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 19 /BarbraStreisand.com/ -- Barbra Streisand and Warren Beatty cohosted a star-studded evening of Stephen Sondheim music at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday, July 8, an ASCAP-sponsored event honoring the esteemed composer and lyricist on his 75 birthday. Ms. Streisand, joined by Beatty and ASCAP President Marilyn Bergman, presented the culminating award to the composer, many of whose songs she has recorded. She was greeted, upon her introduction, with a standing ovation from the 18,000 person audience who then joined her in singing "Happy Birthday" to the evening's honoree.
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Beatty’s new high profile afforded him a better range of material, which in turn allowed him to pursue more personal projects. Though he turned down leads in “The Godfather†(1972), “The Sting†(1973), and “The Great Gatsby†(1974) to serve as an advisor to George McGovern’s presidential campaign, he did star as an enterprising brothel owner who runs afoul of big business in Robert Altman’s exceptional anti-Western, “McCabe and Mrs. Miller†(1971); a bank employee who partners with a hooker (Goldie Hawn) to rob a large European bank in “$†(1971); and a reporter caught up in a conspiracy surrounding the murder of a senator in Alan J. Pakula’s superior thriller “The Parallax View†(1973). Beatty then partnered with director Hal Ashby and writer Robert Towne to produce and star in “Shampoo†(1975), a wry and bitter look at the death of Sixties idealism and the rise of the self-centered Seventies as seen through the jaded eyes of a successful hairstylist (Beatty). The picture was a considerable success, and netted several Academy Award nominations. Beatty had carried on relationships with both of his “Shampoo†co-stars, Goldie Hawn and Julie Christie – and had continued his womanizing streak by dating countless other celebrities during the 1970s, including Cher, Jane Fonda, Bianca Jagger, and Carly Simon, who reportedly penned her hit “You’re So Vain†about him, but it was Christie who proved to be one of his greatest loves. The couple had come together while Christie was shooting “Petulia†in 1968, and remained together until after the release of “Shampoo†in 1976.
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Beatty, who first challenged the governor at a March awards banquet in Beverly Hills, contends that should raise taxes on the rich. On Saturday, he ... argued against the special election that the Republican governor plans to call for November to consider measures aimed at restricting state spending and curbing the influence of public employee unions.
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Warren Beatty has been nominated for 13 Academy Awards; six pictures he has produced have won a total of 52 nominations. He received the Best Director Oscar49 for his work on Reds and has been nominated in four categories, as an actor, director, writer and producer on both Heaven Can Wait and Reds, an honor shared only by Orson Welles for "Citizen Kane.',
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By the age of twenty two Beatty had appeared in about forty off-Broadway productions. He garnered a best actor Tony Award nomination in 1960 for his performance in William Inge's drama A Loss of Roses. It was to be his only appearance on the Broadway stage....
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When the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences decided to honor Beatty with the Irving G. Thalberg Award, which he'll take home from the Oscars ceremony Sunday, it's pretty unlikely they were thinking of his reputation as an ace girl-watcher. The award is not so much designed for actors (Clint Eastwood, who won it in 1994, is the only other recipient who's generally best known as an actor); it's given to directors and producers to recognize a lifetime body of work. Even though Beatty may be most frequently thought of as an actor, his work in other capacities has earned him the lion's share of his Oscar nominations. He's been nominated 14 times, and only four of those nominations have been for best actor. (He's won one award: best director in 1981 for "Reds.")
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