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 Clint
Eastwood has been a premier box-office
star for a staggering 38 years.
In an industry that has defined
fame as fleeting, he is truly an
icon. He is an actor, director,
producer, film composer and an ASCAP
member!
He is the consummate filmmaker,
having appeared in fifty-five features,
starring in forty-three, while also
directing twenty-four films and
producing seventeen.
Most recently, his Malpaso Productions
film, Mystic River, was nominated
for six Academy Awards, with Sean
Penn and Tim Robbins winning for
Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor,
awards that are also a tribute to
the director.
Eastwood's acting credits
include a wide variety of characterizations,
most of which are intrinsically
American, solitary and defined.
He has taken on the role of western
hero and anti-hero, city cop, newsman,
private detective, photographer
and astronaut.
Equally imposing are the filmmaking
accolades that Eastwood has
accumulated
over the years. He is the recipient
of two Oscars, one as Best Director
and one as Best Picture for Unforgiven.
He received the Screen Actor's
Guild Life Achievement Award in
2003, the Kennedy Center Honors
Award and a Lifetime Achievement
Award from New York's National
Board of Review in 2000. Likewise,
he received a Cesar Honorary Award
from the French Film Society for
Career Achievement in l998 and a
Golden Laurel Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Producer's
Guild of America that same year.
In 1996, Eastwood
received Life Achievement Awards
from the American Film Institute
and the Film Society at Lincoln
Center and he was given the prestigious
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
from the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences in 1995.
Eastwood reflected
on his work in film scoring during
The Hollywood Reporter/Billboard
Film & TV Music Conference in
November, 2003.
In conversation with The Reporter's
editor in chief/publisher, Robert
Dowling, Eastwood claimed his score
for the Academy Award winning feature,
Mystic River, was the most difficult
piece of music writing in his career.
The film "is an emotional
ride," Eastwood said, "and
you have to be kind of delicate
about where you're going to
enhance that emotion [musically]."
He said his interest in film music
was sparked by such 40's screen
composers as Max Steiner, Franz
Waxman, Miklos Rosza and Dimitri
Tiomkin. He also cited the influence
of Ennio Morricone, who scored the
Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns
that made Eastwood a star in the
60's.
"I grew up in the 40's,
and when I look at today, I think
I was lucky to be in that era,"
said Eastwood, who also oversees
his own record label, Malpaso Records,
at Warner Music. "There were
some wonderful musical innovations
at the time."
Eastwood discussed his approach
to music in his movies as well as
how he moved from acting and directing
to composing.
"The disadvantage of doing
several jobs is that you're
a jack of all trades and master
of none," he said. "But
one of the good parts of that is
that you see the big picture."
Clint Eastwood is a master filmmaker
in every respect.
ASCAP is proud to present its fourth
Opus Award to Clint Eastwood in
appreciation for recognizing the
singular contribution of music to
film.
Previous recipients
of this distinguished honor include
directors Robert Wise, Stanley Donen
and Norman Jewison. |
2003
Mystic River 5 6
2002
Blood Work 5
2000
Space Cowboys 5 6
1999
True Crime 5 6
1997
Absolute Power 5 6
Midnight in the Garden of
Good and Evil 5
1995
The Bridges of Madison County 4
5 6
1993
A Perfect World 5 6
In the Line of Fire
1992
Unforgiven 1 2 3 5 6
1990
The Rookie 5
White Hunter, Black Heart
5
1989
Pink Cadillac
1988
Dead Pool
Bird 2 5
1986
Heartbreak Ridge 5 6
Ratboy
1985
Pale Rider 5 6
1984
City Heat
Tightrope 6
1983
Sudden Impact 5
1982
Firefox 5
Honkytonk Man 5
1980
Any Which Way You Can
Bronco Billy 5
1979
Escape from Alcatraz
1978
Every Which Way But Loose
1977
The Gauntlet 5
1976
The Enforcer
The Outlaw Josey Wales 5
1975
The Eiger Sanction 5
1974
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1973
Breezy 5
Magnum Force
High Plains Drifter 5
1972
Joe Kidd
1971
The Beguiled
Dirty Harry
Play Misty for Me 5
1970
Kelly's Heroes
Two Mules for Sister Sarah
1969
Paint Your Wagon
1968
Coogan's Bluff
Hang 'Em High
Where Eagles Dare
1967
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Key
1 Academy Award
2 Golden Globe
3 DGA Award
4 ASCAP Film & Television Award
5 Director
6 Composer
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