Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty  (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker.  He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981).  Beatty is the first and only person to have been twice nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film – first with Heaven Can Wait (1978), which was co-written by Elaine May and co-directed by Buck Henry, and again with Reds, which he co-wrote with Trevor Griffiths.  In 1999, he was awarded the Academy’s highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award.  Arthur Penn, who directed Bonnie and Clyde, described Beatty as “the perfect producer”, adding, “He makes everyone demand the best of themselves.  Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing and scoring.  He plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen.”  (More from Wikipedia)