92 -year -old Robert Benton died, Oscar winner against Kramer against Kramer and script by Bonnie and Cladhold and Superman

We against Kramer for whom Kramer and Bonn and Cleed and Superman scripts for whom. He was directed by Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Paul Newen, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon, Jane Hakman, Sally Vali, Jeff Bridges or Kim Basinger. He won three Oscars: Best Director and Best Scenario Kramer against Kramer In 1980, then the best scenario for the heart season five years later. Respectively VarietyAmerican director and script author Robert Benton died this week, May 11, in Manhattan, at the age of 92.

From Bonnie & Clyde to Superman

Graduate of Feature Studies at the University of Texas, Robert Benton works as an illustrator, then as a magazine art director Escare. Then he took the script to write Bonnie and Clad With David Newman. Success, two men still collaborate while writing a musical brochure It is a bird, it’s a plane, it’s supermanCreated in 1966 on Broadway.

According to the contract by Warner Studios, Robert Benton and David Newman Joseph L. The script for reptiles (1970) writes for Mankewich. The tandem continues to the suitcase, doctor? (1972) for Peter Bogdanovic. That same year, Robert Benton launched his first feature film, Bad Company, the West, in which Jeff Bridges explained a refractory young man during the civil war. Follow Police Comedy The Great Show in 1977, then writes in collaboration with David Newman and The Novelist Mario Puzo Superman (1978).

5 Oscar for Kramer Against Kramer

In 1979, the point of turning Robert Benton’s career was marked: the latter writes and realizes Kramer against KramerThe family drama in which the father divorced his wife is trying to get the guardianship of a young child. This feature film will be awarded five Oscars: the best movie, the best script, the best staging, the best actress for Dustin Hoffman and the best actress for Meryl Streep.

The director later discovered these two actors that brought him success: Meryl Streep, who he addressed next to Roy Skeyer, La Mort à Auxes (1982) and Dustin Hoffman, who depicts Gangster Dutch Schultz in Billy Baggate (1991). In the 80s he had an alternative in the wake of family saga depression Heart seasons (1984), Oscar winner for Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Sally Valley, and Police Comedy with Nadin (1987) is interpreted by Kim Basinger.

The end of his career with Newman, Hopkins, Kidman, Frimman …

For his actors, Robert Benton twice appealed to Paul News, struck Sexagenaire in an almost perfect man (1994) and in a private detective Polar Magic Hour (1998). The director then waits five years earlier before returning to the cinema with the color of the university professor (Anthony Hopkins) with a heavy past that lives in a scandalous work with a mysterious woman (Nicole Kidman). Then he created the Festin d’Amour (2007), which was conducted by Morgan Freeman, who will stay with his latest feature film.