Robert Benton: The director and Oscar winner is dead

The three-time Oscar winner Robert Benton, who directed “Kramer against Kramer” and wrote the script for “Bonnie and Clyde”, is dead. His long-time manager and assistant, Marisa Forzano, confirmed according to the “New York Times”. Accordingly, he died in his apartment in Manhattan on Sunday. Benton turned 92.

Benton worked in his long career with film sizes such as Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman and Morgan Freeman.

With his colleague David Newman, Benton worked for the New York magazine “Esquire” in the 1960s when they jointly wrote the script for the Gangster hit “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) and thus won their first Oscar nomination. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway played the leading roles in the brutal criminal criminal offense, directed by Arthur Penn.

Benton was awarded two Oscars as director and screenwriter of “Kramer against Kramer” (1979). The divorce drama, celebrated by critics, also won Oscars as a “best film”, for leading actor Dustin Hoffman and supporting actress Meryl Streep. She played a wife who leaves the man and child.

Benton accepted another script Oscar for the drama “A place in the heart” (1984), Sally Field was recognized as the best leading actress. She played a widow with two children in Texas in the 1930s in existence. Benton, who also directed, settled the film in his Texas homeland, with characters from his own family history.

Benton also worked on the screenplays for films such as “Two dirty Halzunken” (1970) “‘ What, doc? “(1972) and” Superman “. As a director, he brought Paul Newman for” Nobody’S Fool “(1994) as a quirky loner and for the thriller” in the twilight “(1998) In addition to Newman, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon and Reese Witherspoon in front of the camera.

According to a novel by Philip Roth, Benton staged the star -occupied drama “The Human Make” in 2003. Anthony Hopkins plays a respected literary professor who hides his origin from a black family and pretends to be a white man. Nicole Kidman mimics a woman battered by fate who steps into his life. Benton was able to win Morgan Freeman for his last film “Magic of Love” in 2007.