Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood is an American actor, director, producer, and former politician whose career spans Westerns, crime films, and other genres.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Sergio Leone’s 1966 Western follows three gunslingers competing to find buried Confederate gold. Eastwood became an international star as the taciturn Blondie in this film.
Classical Hollywood cinema: A style of filmmaking built around clear storytelling, continuity editing, and goal-driven characters. Eastwood’s films often use its legible, unshowy storytelling conventions.
Rawhide: An American television Western series broadcast from 1959 to 1965. Eastwood gained national visibility playing cattle driver Rowdy Yates.
Gene Hackman: An American actor known for roles in films including The French Connection and Unforgiven. Hackman’s performance opposite Eastwood in Unforgiven earned an Academy Award.
Academy Awards: Annual American film awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Eastwood won Best Director and Best Picture for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.
Dirty Harry: Don Siegel’s 1971 crime film stars a San Francisco detective confronting a serial killer. Its hard-edged detective became one of Eastwood’s most enduring screen roles.
Sergio Leone: An Italian filmmaker who shaped the Spaghetti Western with stylized violence and expansive close-ups. Leone directed Eastwood in the films that established his international Western image.
Spaghetti Western: A Western film subgenre made chiefly by Italian filmmakers from the 1960s onward. Eastwood’s work with Sergio Leone made him its most internationally recognized American star.
Morgan Freeman: An American actor whose career includes films, television, and stage performances. Freeman co-starred in Eastwood’s Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.
Cannes Film Festival: An international film festival held annually in Cannes, France. Eastwood received the festival’s honorary Palme d’Or in 2009.

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