Robert Benton
Film director
1932 –
Who is Robert Benton?
Robert Douglas Benton is an American screenwriter and film director. He won the Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for Kramer vs. Kramer and won a third Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Places in the Heart.
Benton also garnered three additional Oscar nominations: two for Best Original Screenplay for both Bonnie and Clyde and The Late Show and one for Best Adapted Screenplay for Nobody's Fool.
He has also directed Twilight and Feast of Love and co-wrote the screenplays for Superman and The Ice Harvest. Benton usually collaborates with novelist/screenwriter Richard Russo.
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- Born
- Sep 29, 1932
Waxahachie - Also known as
- Robert Douglas Benton
- Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- University of Texas at Austin
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on July 23, 2013
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