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Date of Birth : Jul 30th 1939

American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic. He was part of the wave of “New Hollywood” directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola. His most critically acclaimed film is The Last Picture Show (1971).

The 32-year old Bogdanovich was hailed by a critics as a “Wellesian” wunderkind when his best received film, The Last Picture Show, was released in 1971. The film gained eight Academy Awards nominations, including Best Director, and won two statues: Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson in the supporting acting categories. Bogdanovich also co-wrote the screenplay with Larry McMurtry. The screenplay won a BAFTA award in 1971 for Best Screenplay. Bogdanovich, who had cast the 21-year-old model Cybill Shepherd in a major role in the film, fell in love with her, an affair that eventually led to his divorce from Polly Platt, his long-time artistic collaborator and the mother of his two daughters.

Bogdanovich followed up The Last Picture Show with the popular hit comedy What’s Up, Doc? (1972) starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal, a screwball comedy indebted to Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940). Despite his reliance on homage to bygone cinema, Bogdanovich had solidified his status as one of a new breed of A-list directors that included Academy Award winners Francis Ford Coppola and William Friedkin, with whom he formed The Directors Company. The Directors Company was a generous production deal with Paramount Pictures that essentially gave the directors carte blanche, if they kept within budget limitations. It was through this entity that Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon (1973) was produced.


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Abandoned ( 2009 )

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Dedication ( 2007 )

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Infamous ( 2007 )

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Coming Soon ( 1999 )

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