“He was sitting across from me, so I thought he was pretty cool.”
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Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman was an American filmmaker. He is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, known for directing subversive and satirical films with overlapping dialogue and ensemble casts. Over his career he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Honorary Award, two BAFTAs, three Independent Spirit Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, a David di Donatello Award, and a Go…
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entertainment · American filmmaker (1925–2006) · film director · screenwriter · film producer · film editor · writer · librettist · theatre director · film actor · director · film screenwriter · also Robert Altman, Altman
Born 20 February 1925 · Died 20 November 2006 · Q55163
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2026· 2 entries
“I saw everyone, and I was very careful to get it right.”
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Nashville at 50: Robert Altman’s defining masterpiece of the 1970s
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘The enemy is the audience’: Robert Altman’s The Player at 30
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Nashville review – Robert Altman’s country classic still sings
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The Guardian: Robert Altman’s 20 best films – ranked!
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2016· 1 entry
Co-authored a book about Altman that was published in 2014
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2014· 2 entries
She had served as a consultant and narrator for the 2014 documentary Altman, and had spoken at many retrospective screenings of her husband's films.
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A feature-length documentary film, Altman, was released, which looks at his life and work with film clips and interviews
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2008· 1 entry
The University of Michigan Library acquired Altman's archive
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2006· 5 entries
Died 2006-11-20.
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Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2006).
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Altman an Academy Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement
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Altman travelled to England to direct the West End debut of Arthur Miller's final play, Resurrection Blues at the Old Vic Theatre
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Altman's body of work with an Academy Honorary Award
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2004· 1 entry
Reunited with Bolcom, Weinstein, and the Lyric Opera to adapt his 1978 film, A Wedding, as an opera
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1996· 1 entry
Altman directed Kansas City, expressing his love of 1930s jazz through a complicated kidnapping story
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1994· 1 entry
Received the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for The Player (1993).
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1990· 1 entry
Altman directed Vincent & Theo, a biographical film about Vincent van Gogh that was intended as a television miniseries for broadcast in the United Kingdom
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Tanner '88 (1989).
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1982· 1 entry
After finishing work on Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Altman travelled to Dallas to film his next film, Streamers
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1981· 1 entry
The director sold Lion's Gate to producer Jonathan Taplin after his political satire Health (shot in early 1979 for a Christmas release) was shelved by longtime distributor 20th Century Fox following tepid test and festi
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1970· 1 entry
Following the release of M*A*S*H, he founded Lion's Gate Films to have independent production freedom
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1969· 1 entry
Altman was offered the script for M*A*S*H, an adaptation of a little-known Korean War-era novel satirizing life in the armed services; more than a dozen other filmmakers had passed on it
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1964· 1 entry
The producers decided to expand "Once Upon a Savage Night", one of his episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre, for release as a television film under the title Nightmare in Chicago
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1956· 1 entry
Was hired by a local businessman to write and direct a feature film in Kansas City on juvenile delinquency
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1949· 1 entry
And accepted a job as a director and writer of industrial films for the Calvin Company
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1925· 2 entries
In Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Helen (née Matthews), a Mayflower descendant from Nebraska, and Bernard Clement Altman, a wealthy insurance salesman and amateur gambler who came from an upper-class family
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Born 1925-02-20.
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