Clint Eastwood

Acting

Born 1930-05-31 San Francisco, California, USA 251 credits Academy Awards 4 Golden Globe Awards 4 Directors Guild of America 2 Golden Boot Awards 2 National Board of Review Award for Best Film 1 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award 1 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1

Awards

Won 4 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 4 won · 7 nominated

2015 Best Picture Nominated American Sniper
2007 Best Director Nominated Letters from Iwo Jima
2007 Best Picture Nominated Letters from Iwo Jima
2005 Best Picture Won Million Dollar Baby
2005 Best Actor Nominated Million Dollar Baby
2005 Best Director Won Million Dollar Baby
2004 Best Picture Nominated Mystic River
2004 Best Director Nominated Mystic River
1993 Best Picture Won Unforgiven
1993 Best Director Won Unforgiven
1993 Best Actor Nominated Unforgiven

Golden Globe Awards 4 won

2005 Best Director Won
1993 Best Director Won
1992 Best Director Won Unforgiven
1989 Golden Globe Awards Won

Directors Guild of America 2 won

1992 Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Won Unforgiven
— Award Won

Golden Boot Awards 2 won

2007 Golden Boot Awards Won
1993 Golden Boot Awards Won

National Board of Review Award for Best Film 1 won

— Best Film Won

Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award 1 won

— Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award Won

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 won

— Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Won

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Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is a retired American film actor, director, producer, composer, and former politician. Following his breakthrough role on the TV series "Rawhide" (1959–65), Eastwood starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti westerns ("A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More," and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly") in the 1960s, and as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films ("Dirty Harry," "Magnum Force," "The Enforcer," "Sudden Impact," and "The Dead Pool") during the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, along with several others in which he plays tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the films "Unforgiven" (1992) and "Million Dollar Baby" (2004). These films in particular, as well as others including "Play Misty for Me" (1971), "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), "Pale Rider" (1985), "In the Line of Fire" (1993), "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995), and "Gran Torino" (2008), have all received commercial success and/or critical acclaim. Eastwood's only comedies have been "Every Which Way but Loose" (1978) and its sequel "Any Which Way You Can" (1980); despite being widely panned by critics they are the two highest-grossing films of his career after adjusting for inflation. Eastwood has directed most of his own star vehicles, but he has also directed films in which he did not appear such as "Mystic River" (2003) and "Letters from Iwo Jima" (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations and "Changeling" (2008), which received Golden Globe Award nominations. He has received considerable critical praise in France in particular, including for several of his films which were panned in the United States, and was awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and in 2007 was awarded the Légion d'honneur medal. In 2000 he was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Since 1967 Eastwood has run his own production company, Malpaso, which has produced the vast majority of his films. He also served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988. Eastwood has seven children by five women, although he has only married twice. An audiophile, Eastwood is also associated with jazz and has composed and performed pieces in several films along with his eldest son, Kyle Eastwood. On June 1, 2026, his retirement was confirmed by his son, Kyle Eastwood.