Clint Eastwood is the recipient of the 2006 Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Eastwood has previously received lifetime achievement awards from the American Film Institute, the Film Society at Lincoln Center and SAG, among others. He also has been honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Eastwood is being recognized for his distinguised career behind the camera which includes two Academy Awards for Best Director.
“As one of the most prolific, versatile directors in the history of the medium, there isn’t a genre that Clint Eastwood hasn’t mastered in the more than 25 films he has directed over the past 35 years,” DGA president Michael Apted said. “His ongoing body of work continues to touch generations of moviegoers and bring huge audiences into movie theaters. He does it all with great class, intelligence and style.”
Eastwood will be honored at the 58th annual DGA Awards on January 28.
This award is more prestigious than other lifetime achievement awards. The honor was first presented in 1958 to Cecil B. DeMille and has only been presented 31 times. Other recipients of the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award include Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra and John Ford. Most recently, Mike Nichols was honored in 2004.
Eastwood’s Unforgiven received the DGA Award for directorial achievement in 1993 as well as four Academy Awards, including Best Director. He was again nominated for the DGA Award and Academy Award for directing in 2004 for Mystic River.
Congrats to Clint Eastwood who still has it.
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Oh, i have had a crush on Clint Eastwood forever. I used to think think he was The most handsome actor alive. I even like his cowboy movies.
Kudos to him
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Have you ever seen him from his Rawhide days. Seems like a million years ago.
No I haven’t seen “Rawhide” The earliest I’ve ever seen Clint Eastwood in anything is “Kelly’s Heroes” from 1970. But none of that makes a difference…. I’m still a Clint Eastwood girl all the way.