Arthur Penn

Arthur Hiller Penn September 27 1922 September 28 2010 was an American filmmaker theatre director and producer He was a threetime Academy Award nominee for Best Director and a Tony Award winner Among other accolades he was also nominated for a BAFTA Award a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards Penn first achieved prominence as a theatre director winning a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for The Miracle Worker He received similar acclaim and his first Oscar nomination for directing the 1962 film adaptation His 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde is credited with initiating the New Hollywood movement by infusing the biographical crime drama with a counterculture sensibility He achieved similar critical and commercial success directing the comedy Alices Restaurant 1969 and the revisionist Western Little Big Man 1970 which further reflected that ethos Penns other notable films included the neonoir Night Moves 1975 and the revisionist Western The Missouri Breaks 1976 In the 1990s he returned to stage and television direction and production including an executive producer role for the police procedural series Law Order Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Penn licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia