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Robert Douglas Benton (born September 29, 1932) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the writer and director of the film Kramer vs. Kramer, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He had previously written the screenplay (with David Newman) for the film Bonnie and Clyde.

Robert Benton
Born	Robert Douglas Benton (1932-09-29) September 29, 1932 (age 90) Waxahachie, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, producer
Years active	1967–2007
Spouse	Sallie Rendig ​ ​ (after 1964)​

Early life

Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Dorothy (née Spaulding) and Ellery Douglass Benton, a telephone company employee.[1] He attended the University of Texas and Columbia University.[1]

Career

In 1959, he co-wrote the book The IN and OUT Book with Harvey Schmidt, published by The Viking Press. He was the art director at Esquire in the early 1960s.[2]

Benton won the Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Best Original Screenplay for Places in the Heart (1984).

Benton garnered three additional Oscar nominations: two for Best Original Screenplay for both Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and The Late Show (1977) and one for Best Adapted Screenplay for Nobody's Fool (1994).

He also directed Twilight (1998) and Feast of Love (2007), and co-wrote the screenplays for Superman (1978) and The Ice Harvest (2005).

In 2006, he appeared in the documentary Wanderlust.

Personal life

He married artist Sallie Rendig in 1964.[3][4]

Films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive producer
1967	Bonnie and Clyde	No	Yes	No
1970	There Was a Crooked Man...	No	Yes	No
1972	What's Up, Doc?	No	Yes	No
	Bad Company	Yes	Yes	No
1977	The Late Show	Yes	Yes	No
1978	Superman	No	Yes	No
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	Yes	Yes	No
1982	Still of the Night	Yes	Yes	No
1984	Places in the Heart	Yes	Yes	No
1987	Nadine	Yes	Yes	No
1988	The House on Carroll Street	No	No	Yes
1991	Billy Bathgate	Yes	No	No
1994	Nobody's Fool	Yes	Yes	No
1998	Twilight	Yes	Yes	No
2003	The Human Stain	Yes	No	No
2005	The Ice Harvest	No	Yes	Yes
2007	Feast of Love	Yes	No	No

Theatre

Year	Title	Notes
1966	It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman	Libretto; adaptation in television film (1975)
1969	Oh! Calcutta!	Contribution in libretto; adaptation in theatrical film (1972)

Film awards

Wins

• 1978 - Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for The Late Show
• 1980 - Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Kramer vs. Kramer
• 1980 - Academy Award for Best Director for Kramer vs. Kramer
• 1980 - Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture for Kramer vs. Kramer
• 1980 - Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for Kramer vs. Kramer
• 1984 - People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival
• 1985 - Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Places in the Heart
• 1985 - Silver Bear for Best Director at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival for Places in the Heart[5]
• 2007 - Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement[6]

Nominations

• 1968 - Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Bonnie and Clyde
• 1968 - Golden Globe for Best Screenplay for Bonnie and Clyde
• 1977 - Golden Bear at Berlin for The Late Show
• 1978 - Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for The Late Show
• 1980 - Golden Globe for Best Director - Motion Picture for Kramer vs. Kramer
• 1981 - César Award for Best Foreign Film for Kramer vs. Kramer
• 1985 - Academy Award for Directing for Places in the Heart
• 1985 - Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for Places in the Heart
• 1985 - Golden Globe for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture for Places in the Heart
• 1995 - Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Nobody's Fool

References

Archival sources

• The Robert Benton Papers 1969-1994 (24 linear feet) are housed at the Wittliff Collections, Texas State University in San Marcos.

External links

Archives at
Location Wittliff collections  Source Robert Benton Papers
How to use archival material

• Profile of Robert Benton in The New York Observer
• "Robert Benton’s Portland Feast" from Willamette Week
• Robert Benton at IMDb
• Robert Benton at AllMovie
• Robert Benton at the TCM Movie Database

На других языках

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[de] Robert Benton

Robert Benton (* 29. September 1932 in Waxahachie, Texas, USA) ist ein US-amerikanischer Regisseur, Drehbuchautor und Filmproduzent. Seine Bekanntheit begründete er zunächst als Drehbuchautor, um dann als Regisseur internationale Erfolge zu erzielen.

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- [en] Robert Benton

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[es] Robert Benton

Robert Douglas Benton (n. 29 de septiembre de 1932) es un director de cine y guionista estadounidense.

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[ru] Бентон, Роберт

Роберт Бентон (англ. Robert Benton, род. 29 сентября 1932[1][2][3][…], Уоксахачи, Техас) — американский кинорежиссёр и сценарист, получивший три премии «Оскар». В начале 1960-х работал редактором ежемесячного журнала «Esquire».

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