Henry Warren Beatty ( ; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. He has been nominated for fourteen
Academy Awards – four for
Best Actor, four for
Best Picture, two for
Best Director, three for
Original Screenplay, and one for
Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for
Reds (1981). Beatty is only the second person to have been nominated for acting, directing, writing and producing in the same film – doing so first with
Heaven Can Wait (1978), and again with
Reds – succeeding
Orson Welles, who was nominated for all four for
Citizen Kane (1941).