Benton won the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The acclaimed filmmaker subsequently won a third Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for ...

The Abyss received an Academy Award for the Best Visual Effects and James was presented with a Saturn Award for Best Director. The awards were well deserved as creating the movie involved cast ...

Robert Benton, an Oscar-winning screenwriter and director has died at 92. Benton helped redefine American cinema with "Bonnie ...

5. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) This global phenomenon earned Boyle the Academy Award for Best Director. Set in Mumbai, it tells a compelling rags-to-riches story with heart, energy, and an ...

Some Oscar voters who’ve long since made it into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have apparently embraced the ...

FILE - Actor Nicole Kidman, left, and director Robert Benton ... was nominated for best adapted screenplay. “Somebody asked me once when the Academy Award nominations came out and I’d been ...

The prize is announced as Belgian’s Valéry Carnoy’s ‘Wild Foxes,’ takes the SACD Prize, his second award at Directors’ ...

One of the academy’s founding members, MGM art director Cedric ... two time best actress winner Bette Davis claims that she named the Academy Award. After winning the award for Dangerous in ...

Make my day.” 1986-1988 – Mayor of Carmel, California. March 29, 1993 – Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for “Unforgiven.” March 27, 1995 – Receives the ...

Award for ‘Best Corporate University Culture’. Held in Paris, the awards recognized the bank’s training institute, Purple Academy, for its excellence and strategic impact in driving learning ...

His 1992 western Unforgiven earned him the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture, and he continued to delight fans with films like Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, and Gran Torino.