Clint Eastwood in the 2000s
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Career
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As an actor[edit]
In 2000, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in Space Cowboys as Frank Corvin, a retired NASA engineer called upon to save a failing Russian satellite. Roger Ebert commented, "Eastwood as director is as sure-handed as his mentors, Don Siegel and Sergio Leone. We leave the theater with grave doubts that the scene depicted in the final feel-good shot is even remotely possible, but what the hell; it makes us smile."[1]
In 2002, Eastwood played an ex-FBI agent on the track of a sadistic killer (Jeff Daniels) in the thriller Blood Work. A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote that the film was too similar to many other Eastwood films, although he said, "there is something comforting in seeing this old warhorse trot gamely out of the gate for yet another run on familiar turf."[2] Despite the lackluster performance at the box office and mixed reception, Eastwood won the Future Film Festival Digital Award at the Venice Film Festival. Eastwood directed the crime drama Mystic River about murder, vigilantism, and sexual abuse.
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Actor and director[edit]
In 2005, Eastwood won critical and commercial success with Million Dollar Baby which screened from late January to early June 2005. The boxing drama won four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Hilary Swank), and Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman).[3] Eastwood received a nomination for Best Actor,[4]:313 and the trio was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Eastwood also received a Grammy nomination for composing the film's score.
After four years away from acting, Eastwood ended his "self-imposed acting hiatus"[5] with Gran Torino. Eastwood directed, starred, held a producer role, and co-wrote the theme song for the film. The film grossed close to $30 million during its wide release opening weekend in January 2009, making Eastwood, at age 78, the oldest leading man to reach number one at the box office.[4]:329 Gran Torino grossed over $268 million worldwide in theaters and is the highest-grossing film of Eastwood's career so far without adjustment for inflation. Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer stated that Eastwood "... caps his career as both a director and an actor with his portrayal of a heroically redeemed bigot of such humanity and luminosity as to exhaust my supply of superlatives."[4]:330 Eastwood said at the time that it was likely the last time he would act in a film.[6]
As director[edit]
In 2006, Eastwood directed two films from opposite points of view about the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima. Flags of Our Fathers told the story of the men who raised the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi. Letters from Iwo Jima was about the combat tactics the Japanese soldiers on the island used and the letters they wrote to family members. Letters from Iwo Jima was the first American film to show a war issue completely from the view of an American enemy.[4]:320 Both films were highly praised by critics and garnered several Oscar nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture for Letters from Iwo Jima. In 2008, Eastwood directed Changeling, based on a true story, starring Angelina Jolie.[4]:327
In 2009, Eastwood directed Invictus, with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as rugby team captain François Pienaar. John Carlin, author of the book on which the film is based, sold the film rights to Freeman.[7] Then in 2011, Clint Eastwood collaborated with Brad Paisley to make the song "Eastwood".
References[edit]
- ↑ Ebert, Roger (August 4, 2000). "Space Cowboys". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Scott, A. O. (August 9, 2002). "Blood Work (2002)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 12, 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Roberts & Skutt (2006), p.689
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eliot, Marc (2009). American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood. New York
- ↑ Turan, Kenneth (December 12, 2008). "Review: 'Gran Torino'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 26, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2011. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Jamieson, Alistair (November 23, 2008). "Clint Eastwood to retire from acting". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on December 12, 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Keller, Bill. – "Entering the Scrum". – The New York Times Book Review. August 17, 2008.
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