Clint Eastwood has made more than 50 feature films as an actor, director, and producer in a career spanning five decades. As a film actor, Eastwood became a star as The Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns and as police inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films. Since Play Misty for Me, his first film as a director, Eastwood has received critical acclaim for a diverse body of films including White Hunter, Black Heart; A Perfect World; The Bridges of Madison County; Bird; Mystic River; Letters from Iwo Jima; and Gran Torino. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, and was also nominated for Best Actor in both films. His new film, Invictus, stars Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, and opens in December.

This will be the Museum's 25th annual Salute. Past honorees include Tom Cruise, Robert DeNiro, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Ron Howard, Steve Martin, Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier, Julia Roberts, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg.

Featured Works:

Invictus (Clint Eastwood, 2009, pictured)

Program information:

Museum of the Moving Image Salutes Clint Eastwood

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