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Beatty receives AFI’s lifetime achievement award

Thu, 13 Jun 2008 15:05:52 GMT

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Bill Clinton was among those saluting Warren Beatty as the Oscar-winning actor-director received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute.
“Over all these decades, you have shared with us, as moviegoers, this insatiable hunger for life,” the former president said during Thursday night’s ceremony at the Kodak Theatre. “That’s what I think about when I think of you.”

Stars such as Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton, Quentin Tarantino and Halle Berry were on hand for the celebration marking Beatty’s 47-year career as an actor, writer, director and producer, as were George McGovern, Gary Hart and Jerry Brown.

The 3 1/2-hour event featured clips from Beatty’s movies and taped tributes from Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, Goldie Hawn and John McCain.

Hart called the 71-year-old filmmaker “as true and loyal a friend as I have ever had in this life.” McGovern thanked Beatty for throwing a fundraising concert in 1972 that he said helped win him the Democratic presidential nomination that year.

Berry, who starred with Beatty in the 1998 political satire “Bulworth,” called him “a true legend … a man willing to take a risk to say something meaningful to the audience through his film.”

Hoffman noted Beatty’s numerous awards and called his friend of 40 years “a very human human being: a political activist of no short order, a proven artist of Herculean proportions, the husband of Annette Bening, the father of Kathlyn, Benjamin, Isabel and Ella, and the best friend of Jack Nicholson.”

Hoffman joked about Nicholson’s absence — presumably due to the Lakers-Celtics championship game a few miles away at the Staples Center.

“Rumor has it that he was going to try to combine the two,” Hoffman said. “Rumor also has it that he might have been sitting courtside in a tuxedo.”

Nicholson showed up later, speaking in a hoarse voice and wearing his trademark shades. He said Beatty “has received eight times as many awards as he’s made pictures.”

“You get all these honors because of your passion and your dedication to excellence,” said Nicholson, who presented Beatty with the Irving G. Thalberg Award at the 2000 Academy Awards. “This is why I’m crazy about your work.”

Beatty, who won a directing Oscar for 1981’s “Reds,” said his “big sister Shirley MacLaine” had led him into the movie business. His films also include “Heaven Can Wait,” “Bonnie and Clyde” and “Bugsy.”

He thanked the film industry for leading him to Bening, “who has given me the most important thing of all, which is her love.”

Beatty said he was “particularly humbled by the presence” of McGovern, Hart, Brown and Clinton, and he described himself as “an old-time, unrepentant, unreconstructed, tax-and-spend, bleeding-heart, die-hard liberal Democrat.”

“The 36th Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty” is scheduled to air June 25 on the USA Network.

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Warren Beatty honored with lifetime achievement award

Thu, 13 Jun 2008 14:52:34 GMT

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Oscar winning actor Warren Beatty received The American Film Institute’s annual lifetime achievement award on Thursday, honoring his nearly 50-year career. The Los Angeles-based American Film Institute is one of the movie industry’s leading groups dedicated to film preservation and restoration.

Beatty, 71, began his career on television, graduated to feature films and saw his breakthrough as lead actor and producer of 1967 gangster film “Bonnie and Clyde,” widely seen as a milestone in the history of American movies.

He also has long been a champion of liberal politics and when accepting the AFI lifetime honor, he noted “I’m still a liberal when it’s coming back in style.”

Beatty’s wife, Annette Bening was by his side, along with Stars such as Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton, Faye Dunaway and ex-president Bill Clinton.

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Robert Wagner Admits He Plotted To Kill Warren Beatty

Wed, 14 Aug 2008 19:02:06 GMT

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Robert Wagner considered killing love rival Warren Beatty after losing girlfriend Natalie Wood to the legendary lothario, he reportedly reveals in a new autobiography.

Warren Beatty Receives Life Achievement Award From AFI

Thu, 13 Jun 2008 10:33:00 GMT

posted by gic
Warren Beatty received the American Film Institute's highest honor Thursday night, but you wont get to see it until June 25.

Beatty received the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award for his lifetime of work as a producer, writer, director and star that includes such movie favorites as 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller,' 'Shampoo,' 'Reds,' 'Heaven Can Wait,' 'Dick Tracy' and 'Bugsy.'

Beatty joins such previous winners as Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks. You have to believe that Jack Nicholson will be at the ceremony with his dark sunglasses and sly wit.

This was the 36th annual event for the award.

The award goes to someone "whose talent has in a fundamental way advanced the film art; whose accomplishment has been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time."

Thursday's tribute will air on the USA Network on Wednesday, June 25.
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Warren Beatty: Receives AFI's lifetime achievement award

Fri, 14 Jun 2008 12:56:25 GMT

posted by rbheder
American Film Institute honoured Oscar-winning actor-director Warren Beatty with lifetime achievement award. Bill Clinton was also among those, who saluted Warren Beatty in the Thursday night's ceremony at the Kodak Theatre.
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