New York-Oscar-winning director Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning director who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as the co-author of “Bonnie and Clyde”, later to verify the prevailing health at the age of 92, “Kramer Vs. Kramer” and “Places in the Heart”, at the age of 92.
Ibn Benton, John Benton, said that he died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan “for natural reasons.”
During a 40 -year -old screen career, Texas received six Oscars’ nominations and won three times: to write and direct “Kramer Vs. Kramer” and write “Places in the Heart”. He was widely estimated by actors as vigilance and confidence, and he made the Academy award -winning offers by Dustin Hoffman, Mirel Streep and Sally Field. Although the severe dyslexia left it unable to read more than a few pages at one time as a child, he wrote and directed films for the novels written by Philip Roth, Al Doctor and Richard Rousseau, among others.
Bentone was an art director of Esquire magazine in the early 1960s when he was inspired by the love of new French wave films and old gang stories (and news that a friend got $ 25,000 to Doris’s scenario day) and inspired him Esquire David Newman to formulate a transaction on the life of Robbers-Pepers Clyde Barrow Bonnie, its perception as models of 1960s.
Their project took years to complete it, as Francois Truvao and Jean -Luc Godard were among the directors who rejected them before Warren Betty agreed to production and the star in the film. “Bonnie and Claid”, directed by Arthur Ben, starring Betty and Fei Dunaway, overcame an initial critical resistance in 1967 of the amazing violence of the film and became one of the touch stones in the 1960s culture and the beginning of a more open and creative era in Hollywood.
The original story written by Benton and Numan was more bold: they made Clyde Barrow a two -sex and participated in a triple relationship with Bonnie and their driver. Betty and Pens resisted, and Barrow was filmed instead as incapable, as the non -approved Robert Town made many other changes on the text program. Benton later told Mark Harris, author of “Pictures in Revolution”, a book on “Bonnie and Claide” and four other films in 1967.
Oscar winning victories
Over the next decade, none of Benton’s films approached the influence of “Bonnie and Claid”, although he continued to achieve critical and commercial success. His writing credits included “Superman” and “What is it up?” He was directed and participated in writing the works of a “bad company”, which is a “Western Review Company” that includes Jeff Bridges and “The Late Show”, a sad comedy that received a scenario for an Academy Award nomination.
His career increased in 1979 by adapting Affiri Kormman’s novel “Kramer Against Kramer”, about a self -absorbing executive director who becomes a lover of his young son after his wife walks, only to return and ask for custody. Hoffman and Streep starring, the film was praised as a cognitive and emotional image to change the roles and expectations of the family and receive five awards in the Oscars, including the best image. Hoffman, who was frustrated at the time with cinema works, cited “Kramer Vs. Kramer” and Benson’s direction to revive his love for cinematic acting.
Five years later, Benton returned to the Oscars with a more personal movie, “Places in the Heart”, where he was based on the stories of the family and childhood memories of his drama in the 1930s of the Fields Championship as the mother of two children in Texas, who is fighting to stick to her land after the killing of her husband.
“I think when I saw everything enlarged, I was surprised by what I had a romantic view in the past,” Bentone told Associated Press in 1984, adding that the film was partial in honor of his mother, who died shortly before the launch of “Kramer opposite Kramer”.
Lifetime movies fan
Benton was born in Wakahichi, Texas, outside Dallas. He owes his early love for his father, Ellery Douglass Benton, who, instead of asking about homework, will take his family to photo shows. Elder Benton will also share memories of the funerals of Outlaws Barrow and Parker, the indigenous Texas who grew up in the Dallas region.
Robert Benton studied at the University of Texas and the University of Colombia, then served in the US military from 1954 to 1956. While he was in Esquire, Benton helped start the prize for long -suspicious achievement in the magazine, then on the history of Gloria Steinm, then in the Light Team in helping the Humor Magazine! He married the artist Sally Ranjis in 1964. They had one son.
Between visits, Benton often carries long -off seizures. His recent films included disappointments such as the excitement “Billy Pathtit”, “Human Smoothing” and “Aquat”. It has achieved more success with “Nobe’s Fool”, a wonderful comedy released in 1994 and Paul Newman, in the last Academy Award nomination, as rioters in a small town in New York State. Benton, whose movie was based on Rousseau’s novel, was nominated for the best air -conditioned scenario.
“Someone asked me once when the Academy Award nominations appeared and was nominated,” What is the great thing in the Academy Awards? Benton said Venice magazine in 1998. ” I said, “When you go to the prizes and see some people, some of them suffer from bitter battles with each other, and some are friends because friends did not see them in the annual years, some of the people I have seen two days before. It is the house.
