Birthday: February 20, 1925

During the 1970s, an era widely recognized as a renaissance period of American moviemaking, few directors enjoyed greater prominence than Robert Altman. An iconoclast whose work acutely attacked the conventions of genre filmmaking, Altman both satirized and revitalized such warhorses as the Western, the musical, and the crime drama, waging war on the sterile artifice of mainstream ...more
  • 2002
  • Berlin International Film Festival
  • Honorary Golden Bear
  • win
  • 2001
  • American Film Institute
  • Best Director
  • Gosford Park
  • win
  • 2001
  • British Academy of Film and Television
  • Best British Film
  • Gosford Park
  • win


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