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Arthur Penn
Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010) was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer. He was a three-time Academy Award nominee for Best Director, and a Tony Award winner. Among other accolades, he was also nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Penn first achieved prominence as a theatre director, winning a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for The Miracle Worker. He received similar acclaim and his first Oscar nomination for directing the 1962 film adaptation. His 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde is credited with initiating the New Hollywood movement, by infusing the biographical crime drama with a counterculture sensibility. He achieved similar critical and commercial success directing the comedy Alice's Restaurant (1969) and the revisionist Western Little Big Man (1970), which further reflected that ethos.
Penn’s other notable films included the neo-noir Night Moves (1975) and the revisionist Western The Missouri Breaks (1976). In the 1990s, he returned to stage and television direction and production, including an executive producer role for the police procedural series Law & Order.
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As director
Inside
Lumière & Company
The Portrait
Penn & Teller Get Killed
Dead of Winter
Target
Four Friends
The Missouri Breaks
Night Moves
Visions of Eight
Little Big Man
Alice's Restaurant
Bonnie and Clyde
The Chase
Mickey One
The Miracle Worker
The Left Handed Gun
Portrait of a Murderer
The Dark Side of the Earth
The Miracle Worker
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Where's Charley?
The Battler
As actor
Mise en scène with Arthur Penn (a conversation)
Godard Made in USA
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Edge of Outside
Filmmakers in Action
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
In the Shadow of Hollywood
Searching for Arthur
Nichols and May: Take Two
Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Naked in New York
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Hello Actors Studio
Visions of Eight
Arthur Penn: The Director