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27 Photos. Robert Douglas Benton is an American screenwriter and filmmaker from Waxahachie, Texas who is known for screenwriting Bonnie & Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer and Superman. He won two Academy Awards for writing and directing Kramer vs. Kramer.
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Robert Douglas Benton (born September 29, 1932) is an American screenwriter and film director. A seven-time Academy Award nominee and three-time winner, he is best known as the writer and director of the film Kramer vs. Kramer, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Jul 28, 2008 · Both heartfelt, these sublime pictures center on a tough-guy detective on the skids who won’t surrender his honor and dignity. “I did have a strong affinity for stories by Dashiell Hammett,...
May 6, 2024 · Robert Benton (born September 29, 1932, Waxahachie, Texas, U.S.) is an American filmmaker who directed and wrote a number of acclaimed movies, including Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). Early films. Benton served in the U.S. Army in the 1950s, and during this time he painted dioramas.
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Robert Douglas Benton is an American screenwriter and filmmaker from Waxahachie, Texas who is known for screenwriting Bonnie & Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer and Superman. He won two Academy Awards for writing and directing Kramer vs. Kramer.
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After the great critical and commercial success of Kramer vs. Kramer, a seminal child custody drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, Benton spent much of the '80s directing a series of well-made but small-scale films such as 1982's Hitchcockian thriller Still of the Night.
