American filmmaker Robert Benton, winner of three Oscar awards and director of Kramer against Kramer (1979), died on Sunday in Manhattan at age 92, as confirmed by his representative to New York Times.
Benton directed titles such as In a heart place, Not a silly hair and The Human Stain. He was also co -author of the scripts of Bonnie and Clyde (1967), key film of the generation of the new Hollywood; Superman (1968), The day of the cheats (1970) and What’s wrong with me, Doctor? (1972).
He won the Oscar for Best Director and Screenplay for Kramer against Kramerfilm that also granted statuettes to its protagonists, Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep. Your script for In a heart place He was also awarded.
Before devoting himself to cinema, he worked as an artistic director in the magazine Esquire. He also collaborated with figures such as Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon or Nicole Kidman, and participated in the script of Superman (1978).
In addition, Benton was recognized by the scriptwriting union with awards for his entire career and appeared in several documentaries about the history of cinema. One of them was Magnates and stars: a Hollywood story (2010) where it intervened as one of the voices that analyze changes in the industry and their own experience during the rise of the new Hollywood phenomenon.
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