Clint Eastwood

At 93 years old, Clint Eastwood has this physical status:

Born in 1930, Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, and politician.

After gaining success in the Western TV series Rawhide, Harry Callahan, an Italian filmmaker, and as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films of the 1970s and 1980s as the Man with No Name.

Eastwood's work in the Western film Unforgiven (1992) and the sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004) have been recognized as a classic masculinity icon, as well as receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Actor.

After adjustment for inflation, Eastwood's greatest commercial hits have been Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and its sequel, Any Which Way You Can (1980), which was a satire with optimism.

Other famous films include the Western Hang 'Em High (1968), the psychological thriller Play Misty for Me (1974), and the Western Pale Rider (1984), the western Pale Rider (1980), the crime thriller Tightrope (1977), and the romantic comedy Gran Torino (2008). In addition to directing many of his own film projects, Eastwood has produced films in which he did not appear, such as the mystery drama Mystic River (2003) and the war film Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), which received Academy Award nominations, the drama Changeling (2008), and the South African biographical political sports drama Invictus (2009).

American Sniper (2014), the war drama, set box-office records for the biggest January debut ever, as well as the largest opening for an Eastwood film ever. Many films, including some that were not well received in France, received a lot of critical praise in France, including some that were not well received in the United States.

Both Eastwood and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres received the Legion of Honour medal in 1994 and 2007.

In 2000, Eastwood was named the Golden Lion of the Italian Venice Film Festival for lifetime achievement.

Malpaso Productions, a division of Eastwood, has produced just four of his American films since 1967.

Eastwood, who was elected in 1986, served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a non-partisan department.

Early life

Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930, at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, California, to Ruth (née runner; 1909–1967) and Clinton Eastwood (1969). Ruth was referred to by the surname of her second husband, John Belden Wood (1913–2004), who died after the death of Clinton Sr. Sr. Eastwood, who was described as "samson" by the hospital nurses because he weighed 11 pounds 6 ounces (5.2 kg) at birth. Jeanne Bernhardt (b. ), his younger sister, has a younger brother. 1934 (troughton): He is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch descent. He descends from Mayflower passenger William Bradford and is the 12th generation to be born in North America through this line. According to census results, his family moved three times during the 1930s as his father changed jobs, living in Sacramento in 1935. They did not move between 1940 and 1949, contrary to what Eastwood has stated in media interviews. The Eastwoods lived in Piedmont, California, in an upscale neighborhood, had a swimming pool, and each parent drove their own car. For the most part of his career, Eastwood's father was a plant manager in Georgia-Pacific. Ruth became a clerical consultant for IBM as Clint and Jeanne grew older.

Eastwood attended Piedmont Middle School, where he was suspended for academic success due to poor academic results, and reports show he also had to attend summer school. He attended Piedmont High School from 1946 to 1946, but he was refused permission for writing an offensive note to a school official and for burning an effigy on the school lawn, as well as other school infractions. He went to Oakland Technical High School and was set to graduate mid-year in January 1949, but it is unknown if he did not finish, although it is not clear if he did. "Clint graduated from the airplane factory." Don Kincade, a classmate, joked that that was his major," joked. Don Loomis, another high school buddy, said, "I don't think he was spending that much time at school because he was having a good time elsewhere." Fritz Manes, a boyhood friend two years younger than Eastwood, said, "I think what happened is he went off and had a good time." I don't think he graduated from high school. Patrick McGilligan argues that high school graduation records are a matter of strict legal secrecy. According to the writer, Eastwood's school principal had to call his supervisor first before deciding whether or not to be interviewed, and "whoever answered the phone at Malpaso told him not to answer me."

Eastwood had various positions, including lifeguard, paper carrier, grocery clerk, forest firefighter, and golf caddy. Eastwood said he tried to enroll at Seattle University in 1951 but instead was accepted into the United States Army during the Korean War. "He never dropped the Korean War reference, in the hopes that everyone would understand that he was in combat and might have been some sort of hero." He'd been a lifeguard at Fort Ord, northern California, for his entire service in the military," said Eastwood's former longtime companion Sondra Locke. Don Loomis recalled hearing that Eastwood was romancing one of the daughter of a Fort Ord officer, who may have been told to watch out for him when names were announced for postings. He was a passenger on a Douglas AD bomber that ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean near Point Reyes while returning from a prearranged tryst in Seattle, Washington. He and the pilot survived by 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) without using a life raft.

Personal life

Eastwood has had several casual and serious relationships throughout his life, many of which overlapped. He has eight named children by six women, but only half of whom were contemporaneously admitted. Eastwood has declined to reveal his exact number of offspring, and there have been many rumors regarding the number. "They're fragile individuals," he says of speaking to the media. I can shield myself, but they can't." On camera, Patrick McGilligan, his biographer, said that Eastwood's total number of children is uncertain, and that "one was when he was still in high school" is unknown.

Margaret Neville Johnson, Eastwood's first marriage, occurred in December 1953, having met her on a blind date the previous May. During the litigation, he had an affair that resulted in the death of Laurie (born 1954), who was adopted by Clyde and Helen Warren of Seattle. Although Laurie's biological mother's identity is unknown, McGilligan said that the mother belonged to a theater company Eastwood performed in. When married to Johnson, Eastwood continued having affairs, including a 1959-to--diegoal relationship with stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis that gave the birth to Kimber, a 1964 girl.

Johnson tolerated Eastwood's open marriage, and they had two children, Kyle (born 1968) and Alison (born 1972). Eastwood and married actress-director Sondra Locke began living together in 1975; she had been in a marriage of convenience with Gordon Anderson, an unemployed homosexual. Locke said that Eastwood sang "She Made Me Monogamous" to her and that he had "never been in love before." In 1984, Eastwood divorced Johnson. Locke remained married to Anderson until her death in 2018.

Scott (born 1986) and Kathryn (born 1988), a flight attendant, were both legally fatherless in an unnoticed affair. Locke filed a pallimony lawsuit and later sued for fraud, settling in both cases. During the early-1990s, Eastwood had a friendship with actress Frances Fisher, which resulted in the birth of Francesca (born 1993). In 1996, Eastwood married Dina Ruiz, who gave birth to their daughter Morgan the same year. Ruiz and Eastwood's marriage didn't last until 2014.

Since 2014, Eastwood has been working with restaurant hostes Christina Sandera, but several news outlets announced that neither confirmed nor confirmed a relationship. Previously, Eastwood's long-serving boss professed to have no idea of his client's private life.

Since being a child, Eastwood has been a health and fitness enthusiast. During Rawhide's production, Eastwood appeared in magazines and journals, which often detailed his health-conscious lifestyle. For example, Eastwood was photographed doing push-ups in the 1959 edition of the TV Guide. He gave advice on fitness and nutrition, advising people to drink a lot of fruit and raw vegetables, vitamins, and avoid heavy alcohol, alcohol, and carb overload.

Since his grandfather lived to be 92, Eastwood's father died of a heart attack in 1970, described by Fritz Manes as "the only bad thing that ever happened to him in his life." It had a huge influence on his life; from there, he became more effective, producing more consistently, with increased accuracy, and efficiency, and switched to a more strict health regime. Despite abstaining from hard liquor, he opened the Hog's Breath Inn in Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1971. Eastwood sold the pub in 1999 and now owns the Mission Ranch Hotel and Restaurant, which is also located in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Eastwood is a keen golfer and owns the Tehà Golf Club. He is an investor in the world-famous Pebble Beach Golf Links west of Carmel, and he contributes to charitable causes at major tournaments. Eastwood, an FAA registered fixed wing and rotary craft private pilot, often flies his helicopter to the studios to avoid traffic.

"I don't believe in God" Eastwood told film critic Gene Siskel in 1973, "I don't believe in God." Eastwood has claimed that nature inspires spirituality (as suggested by his Western, Pale Rider, 1985), he says, "I was born during the Depression and I was brought up in a Protestant congregation." During the first 14 years of my life, we moved every four to five months, so I was moved to a new church each year. The bulk of them were Protestant, but I went to other churches because my parents wanted me to figure out things for myself. 'I just want to expose you to some religious order and see if that's what you like', they always said.' Also, although my religious preparation was not particularly focused, I do believe there are spiritual lessons to be learned. I stand on the side of the Grand Canyon and look down. It moves me in some way." "It would be wonderful to visit my parents again," he said, who are, of course, deceased. It makes the fear of death much less frightening. But then again, if you believe nothing happens after you die, perhaps it makes your life easier. Maybe you're supposed to do the best you can by the gift you're given of life and that alone."

When he appeared on The Merv Griffin Show with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the creator of Transcendental Meditation, in 1975, Eastwood publicly announced his participation in Transcendental Meditation. For years, he meditated every morning.

Since being stationed in the United States Army near Fort Ord Eastwood, James became interested in real estate in the Carmel area. On December 24, 1967, he purchased five parcels totaling 283 acres (115 ha) from Charles Sawyer along Highway 1 near Malpaso Creek, south of the Carmel Highlands, earning him money from his acting career. Malpaso Productions, he's established, is a production firm. Eastwood also bought another parcel, totaling 650 acres (263 ha). Montefo County acquired the Malpaso property in 1995 for $3.08 million and installed a permanent conservation easement. Eastwood purchased the 134 acres (54 ha) Odello Ranch at the mouth of the Carmel River in the same year, using the proceeds from the auction. He paid to lower the levees along the southern side of the Carmel River to shield Mission Ranch, his home, as well as the neighboring Mission Fields residential neighborhood on the north side of the river, both of which were flooded in 1994. In 1997, Eastwood and his former wife Maggie Johnson (Acting as the Eastwood Trust) donated 49 acres (20 ha) of the Odello Ranch property east of Highway 1 to the Big Sur Land Trust, as well as the associated water rights. On June 28, 2016, Eastwood finally sold the remaining Odello East property. Eastwood purchased 550 acres (223 ha), known as the Candela Woods development, right east of the Odello Ranch.

Eastwood built himself a 15,949-square-foot house in Carmel-by-the-Sea, age 80 in 2010. The 6,136-square-foot Spanish-style mansion in Bel-Air, a 6,136-square-foot Rising River Ranch in La Quinta, an apartment in Burbank that has often been misidentified as Palm Springs), as well as a large but understated home next door to his longtime primary Bel-Air residence. Eastwood is said to have purchased property in two other states. In Sun Valley, Idaho, he has a 5,700 square foot house and a 1.13-acre oceanfront manor. Mrs. Eastwood & Company, a 2012 reality show, had the former appearing in a program.

Eastwood lived in Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Tiburon, and Pebble Beach.

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Career

According to a CBS press release for Rawhide, the Universal-International film company was shooting in Fort Ord when an enterprising employee noticed Eastwood and invited him to speak with the director, but Eastwood's illicit biographer, Patrick McGilligan, disputes this. According to Eastwood's official biography, the key figure in this case was Chuck Hill, who was stationed in Fort Ord and had contacts in Hollywood. While in Los Angeles, Hill became acquainted with Eastwood and managed to lure him into a Universal studio, where he introduced him to cameraman Irving Glassberg. Arthur Lubin, who was initially impressed with Eastwood's appearance and stature, later 6'4" (193 cm), disapproved of his acting, remarking, "He was very amateurish." He didn't know which way to turn or which way to go or do something." Lubin suggested that he attend drama classes and arranged for Eastwood's first job in April 1954, at $100 a week. Eastwood was initially chastised for his stiff demeanor and his lines through his teeth, a lifelong hallmark.

Eastwood's first true audition for Six Bridges to Cross was rejected by Joseph Pevney in May 1954. After many unsuccessful auditions, he was eventually given a minor role in Revenge of the Creature (1955), a sequel to the recently launched Creature from the Black Lagoon. Eastwood appeared in Arthur Lubin's Lady Godiva of Coventry in September 1954 and was uncredited in another Jack Arnold film, Tarantula, where he played a squadron pilot. Eastwood completed four hours of film Never Say Goodbye in May 1955 and had a minor uncredited role as a ranch hand (his first western film) in August 1955, also known as Star in the Dust. On NBC's Allen in Movieland, which starred comedian Steve Allen, actor Tony Curtis, and swing musician Benny Goodman, Universal presented him with his first television role on July 2, 1955. Despite continuing to grow as an actor, Universal ended his deal on October 23, 1955.

Before getting a formal job, Eastwood joined the Marsh Agency, and although Lubin landed him his first role in The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) and later hired him for Escapade in Japan (1957). Irving Leonard, his financial advisor, moved to the Kumin-Olenick Agency in 1956 and Mitchell Gertz in 1957. He landed two small roles as a temperamental army officer for a segment of ABC's Reader's Digest series and as a motorcycle gang member on a Highway Patrol episode in 1956. On Death Valley Days, Eastwood was a cadet in the West Point series and a suicidal gold prospector.

He appeared as a Navy lieutenant in a section of Navy Log in 1958 and as Red Hardigan on Maverick opposite James Garner as a cowardly villain intent on marrying a wealthy girl for money in early 1959. In Lafayette Escadrille (1958), Eastwood played a small part as an aviator, and he appeared in Ambush at Cimarron Pass, a film in which Eastwood considers the lowest point of his career.

Rowdy Yates was cast as Rowdy Yates in the CBS hour-long western film Rawhide, providing him with a career breakthrough he had long wanted. Eastwood was not happy with his character; Eastwood was nearly 30 years old, and Rowdy was too young and cloddish for his warmth. In the summer of 1958, filming in Arizona began. Rawhide took just three weeks to reach the top 20 in television ratings, and although it never won an Emmy, it was a huge success for several years, and it peaked at number six in the ratings between October 1960 and April 1961. The Rawhide years (1959–65) were some of Eastwood's finest, with some of them shooting six days a week for an average of 12 hours a day, although some producers still chastised him for not being flexible enough. Rawhide was beginning to decline in the ratings and lacks freshness in the scripts by late 1963; it was cancelled in the middle of the 1965–66 season. When Eastwood shot several trailers for the film, he was unable to convince producers to let him direct an episode. Eastwood's first season brought in $750 an episode. Rawhide's cancellation paid him $119,000 an episode as severance pay at the time.

Eric Fleming, an Eastwood co-star, turned down an invitation to star in an Italian-made western called A Fistful of Dollars (1964), shot in a remote location of Spain by a relatively unknown director, Sergio Leone. Because Harrison knew Eastwood could be a cowboy convincingly, Richard Harrison suggested it to Leone. Eastwood thought the film would be a way to break away from his Rawhide image. He began working a $15,000 a week job for eleven weeks, with the gift of a Mercedes-Benz car upon completion. "I got very tired of playing the traditional white hat in Rawhide," Eastwood said of the switch from a television western to a Fistful of Dollars. The hero, who kisses old ladies and dogs, was generous to everyone. "I decided it was time to be an antihero." Eastwood was instrumental in the Man with No Name character's distinctive visual style, and, though Leone, a non-smoker, insisted that Eastwood smoke cigarettes be used as a primary component of the "mask" he was attempting to produce for the character.

A Fistful of Dollars was a turning point in Spaghetti Westerns' evolution, with Leone portraying a more lawless and desolate world than traditional westerns and casting doubt on American myths of a western hero with a morally ambiguous antihero. The film's success made Eastwood a leading actor in Italy, and he was rehired to act in For a Few Dollars More (1965), the second of the trilogy. The rights to For a Few Dollars More and the trilogy's final film, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), were sold to United Artists for about $900,000.

Eastwood met producer Dino De Laurentiis in New York City in January 1966 and decided to act in The Witches, a non-Western five-part anthology film starring Silvana Mangano, de Laurentiis' wife. Eastwood's 19-minute video only took just a few days to shoot, but critics were unimpressed; one of them wrote, "no other appearance of his is quite so 'un-Clintlike'.

Two months later, Eastwood began focusing on The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, portraying the mysterious Man with No Name. Lee Van Cleef starred as a ruthless fortune hunter in Eli Wallach's portrayal of Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez. The storyline involved the hunt for a cache of Confederate gold discovered in a cemetery. During the filming of a scene in which a bridge was blown up, Eastwood begged Wallach to retreive a hilltop. "I know about these things," he said. "You should stay as far away from special effects and explosions as you can." The crew became confused about the word "Vaya" minutes later. A pre-exploded explosion that might have killed Wallach had resulted in a premature explosion that might have killed Wallach.

The Dollar trilogy did not appear in the United States until 1967, when A Fistful of Dollars opened on January 18, followed by A Few Dollars More on May 10, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly were not published on December 29. Both three groups were commercially successful, particularly The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, which earned $8 million in rental sales and turned Eastwood into a major film actor, being ranked fifth in Quigley's Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll in 1968, placing fifth place. All three were criticized, and they heralded the start of a fight for Eastwood to win the hearts of American film critics. Judith Crist called A Fistful of Dollars "cheapjack," while Newsweek called For a Few Dollars More "excruciating dopey." The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, according to Renata Adler of The New York Times, was "the most expensive, pious, and repellent film in the history of its peculiar genre." Time magazine paid attention to the film's wooden performances, particularly Eastwood's, though a few commentators, including Vincent Canby and Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, praised his coolness. Leone's cinematography was much praised, even by critics who slammed the performance.

Eastwood was given more roles in Stardom. He starred in Hang 'Em High (1968), alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur, portraying a man who takes up a Marshal's badge and wishes for revenge as a policeman after being shot by vigilantes and left for dead. The film grossed Eastwood $400,000 and 25% of its net box office. Irving Leonard, Eastwood's advisor, helped establish Malpaso Productions, named after Malpaso Creek on Eastwood's property in Monterey County, California, using money earned from the Dollars trilogy. As late as a month before the film's premiere, 38-year-old actor Clint Eastwood was still struggling: "The mysterious man in the street is still asking, 'Who's Clint Eastwood?'" says syndicated columnist Dorothy Manners' column "The proverbial man in the street is still asking, "Who is Clint Eastwood?" When it opened in August 1968, Leonard arranged for Hang 'Em High to be a joint venture with United Artists; it was the biggest opening weekend in United Artist history. Hang 'Em High had been widely lauded by commentators, including Archer Winsten of the New York Times, who referred to it as "a western of quality, courage, risk, and awe."

Eastwood had already begun working on Coogan's Bluff (1968), an Arizona deputy sheriff tracking a wanted psychopathic criminal (Don Stroud) through New York City before Hang 'Em High's release. Since being refused a bid of $1 million – more than double his previous salary – he was reunited with Universal Studios for it. Jennings Lang arranged a meeting for Eastwood with Don Siegel, a Universal contract producer who later became Eastwood's close friend, resulting in a five-film partnership over ten years. In November 1967, shootings began in November 1967, before the script had been finalized. The film was criticized for its portrayal of violence. Bluff by Coogan was also the first collaboration with Argentina composer Lalo Schifrin, who appeared in several Eastwood films in the 1970s and 1980s, including the Dirty Harry films.

Eastwood was paid $750,000 for the war epic Where Eagles Dare (1968), about a World War II squad's deftance of a young army elving into a Gestapo stronghold in the alpine mountains. Richard Burton was the squad's commander, with Eastwood as his right-hand man. In the Batman television series, Eastwood was also cast as Two-Face, but the project was cancelled before filming began.

Eastwood went on to appear in Paint Your Wagon (1969), his first musical performance of his career. At an auction, gold miners gold miners purchase a Mormon settler's less popular wife (Jean Seberg). Bad weather and delays plagued the production, and the film's budget eventually surpassed $20 million, which was too expensive for the time. The film was not a critical or commercial success, but it was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.

In Shirley MacLaine's western Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), directed by Don Siegel, Eastwood appeared with Shirley MacLaine. During the reign of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, an American mercenary becomes mixed up with a prostitute disguised as a nun and ends up assisting a group of Juarista rebels. Eastwood performed a new stranger – we were unveiled, wearing a serape-like jacket, and smoking a cigar. Despite modest praises, the film is included in The New York Times Book of the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made. In the World War II film Kelly's Heroes (also 1970), Eastwood starred as one of a group of Americans robbed a fortune from the Nazis. Heroes of Kelly was the last film Eastwood appeared in that wasn't produced by his own Malpaso Productions. Filming began in July 1969 in Yugoslavia and London. The film received mainly favorable reviews, and its anti-war sentiments were acknowledged. Eastwood and Siegel began planning his next film, The Beguiled (1971), a tale about a wounded Union soldier who was held captive by a sexually repressed matron of a Southern girls' academy, portrayed by Geraldine Page. The film gained major success in France and is regarded as one of Eastwood's finest works by French critics. However, it earned less than $1 million and, according to Eastwood and Lang, flopped due to poor publicity and the "emasculated" role of Eastwood.

In 1971, Eastwood's career came to a halt. Before Irving Leonard died, he and Eastwood had discussed the possibility of Malpaso directing Play Misty for Me, a film that was supposed to give Eastwood the artistic freedom he desired and his debut as a director. The story was about a jazz disc jockey named Dave (Eastwood), who has a casual relationship with Evelyn (Jessica Walter), a listener who had been calling the radio station on night and begged for her favorite song, Erroll Garner's "Misty." The unhinged Evelyn becomes a murderous stalker after Dave's breakup. Filming in Monterey started in September 1970 and included footage from the Monterey Jazz Festival the year before. With writers such as Jay Cocks of Time magazine, Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice, and Archer Winsten in the New York Post, the film was highly praised, as well as Eastwood's technical skills and appearance. Walter was nominated for a Golden Globe Best Actress Award (Drama) for her role in the film.

Dirty Harry (1971), written by Harry and Rita Fink, focuses on a hard-edged New York City (later changed to San Francisco) police inspector who is determined to kill a psychotic killer by any means. Dirty Harry has been described as Eastwood's most memorable role, and the film has been credited with inventing the "loose-cannon cop" style. Eastwood's role as Dirty Harry "established the "first true archetype" of the action film genre, according to author Eric Lichtenfeld. His lines (quoted above) are regarded by firearms historians, including Garry James and Richard Venola, as the driving behind the resurgence of.44 Magnum revolvers in the United States, particularly Harry Callahan's Smith & Wesson Model 29. Dirty Harry, who was born in December 1971, earned $22 million in the United States and Canada. It was Siegel's highest-grossing film and the start of a string of films starring Harry Callahan. Despite that a number of commentators praised Eastwood's performance as "best performance so far, violent, tough, full of implicit identification with his character," the film was also widely condemned as being fascistic. Eastwood was voted first in Quigley's Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll in 1972 and again in 1973, placing it second for the second time in two years.

Following Sean Connery's announcement that he would not be playing James Bond again, Eastwood was given the role but decided against it because the actor should be played by an English actor. He appeared in Western Joe Kidd (1972), based on a figure based on Reies Lopez Tijerina, who stormed a courthouse in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, in June 1967. During filming, Eastwood experienced signs of a bronchial infection as well as several panic attacks. Joe Kidd received mixed reviews, with Roger Greenspun of The New York Times stating that it was unremarkable, with unnecessary symbolism, and sloppy editing, although he lauded Eastwood's success.

Drifter, the first western film directed by Eastwood (1973), in which he also appeared. The film had a moral and supernatural theme, which was later imitated in Pale Rider. The plot follows a enigmatic stranger (Eastwood) who arrives in a brooding Western town, where the people hire him to shield them from three newly released felons. During the film, there is still no certainty whether the stranger is the brother of the deputy, whose felons lynched and murdered, or his ghost. The plot was jammed with black humor and allegory, and Leone's influence was evident. The revisionist film received a mixed reception, but it was a huge box-office success. A number of observers dismissed Eastwood's direction as "as derivative as it was expressive," according to Arthur Knight of the Saturday Review, who said that the company had "assimilated the principles of Siegel and Leone and fused them with his own neoconservative vision of life." "The townspeople did not portray the true spirit of the American pioneer, the spirit that made America great," John Wayne, who had declined a role in the film, wrote a letter to Eastwood shortly after it was released.

Eastwood later turned his attention to Breezy (1973), a film about the blossoming of a middle-aged man and a teen girl. During casting for the film Eastwood met Sondra Locke for the first time, an actor who will appear in six of his films over the next ten years and will become a significant figure in his career. Because Locke, who was 39 years old at the time, was almost twice the age of the protagonist. The film, which was shot by Eastwood and Frank Stanley, cost $1 million less than the intended budget and was completed three days ahead of schedule and was finished three days ahead of schedule. Breezy was not a major critical or commercial success.

Warners announced that Eastwood had called back to work as Callahan in Magnum Force (1973), a sequel to Dirty Harry, about a group of rogue young officers (among them David Soul, Robert Urich, and Tim Matheson) in the San Francisco Police Department, who systematically exterminate the city's worst criminals. Despite the fact that the film was a huge success since its debut, grossing $58.1 million in the United States (a record for Eastwood), it was not a critical success. Nora Sayre, a New York Times writer, panned the film's often conflicting moral values, while Frank Rich of the paper described it as "the same old stuff."

In the buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), a road film involving a veteran bank robber Thunderbolt (Eastwood) and a young con man drifter, Lightfoot (Bridges), Eastwood teamed up with Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy (Bridges). The film was released in spring 1974, and it was lauded for its offbeat comedy infused with high suspense and tragedy, but it was only a modest success at the box office, grossing $32.4 million. Critics had lauded Eastwood's performance, but Bridges, who had been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, was overshadowed by his presence. According to Eastwood, he protested the lack of Academy Award recognition for him and swore he would never work for United Artists again.

The next film by Eastwood, 1975-1975), was based on Trevanian's critically acclaimed spy book of the same name. Jonathan Hemlock plays Jonathan Hemlock, a young assassinated college art professor who returns to his former position in exchange for a rare Pissarro painting. He must scale the north face of the Eiger in Switzerland under grueling weather. During many weeks of preparations at Yosemite in the summer of 1974, Mike Hoover taught Eastwood how to climb. Despite earlier warnings of the dangers of the Eiger, Eastwood vowed to do all his own climbing and stunts. The film crew suffered through a variety of incidents, one of which was fatal. The Eiger Sanction was marginally profitable commercially, earning $14.2 million at the box-office and receiving mixed feedback after being released in May 1975. The film's director, Joy Gould Boyum, dismissed it as a "brutal fantasy." Eastwood criticized Universal Studios for the film's ineffective sales and turned his back on them to reach an agreement with Warner Brothers that has lasted to the present day.

Josey Wales (1976), a western based on Asa Carter's 1972 book of the same name, has lead protagonist Josey Wales (Eastwood) as a pro-Confederate rebel who refuses to surrender his arms after the American Civil War and is chased across the old southwest by a group of enforcers. Locke as his love interest and Chief Dan George as an elderly Cherokee who has formed an alliance with Wales were among the supporting cast members. Producer Bob Daley was fired by producer Philip Kaufman under Eastwood's direction, resulting in a fine assessed to be around $60,000 by the Directors Guild of America, which later passed new legislation reserved the right to impose a large fine on a producer for discharging and replacing a director. During a six-day conference titled Western Movies: Myths and Images, the film was pre-screened at the Sun Valley Center for the Performing Arts and Humanities in Idaho. A number of respected film commentators, including Jay Cocks and Arthur Knight; filmmakers such as King Vidor, William Wyler, and Howard Hawks; and a number of academics were among the invited guests to the screening. The Outlaw Josey Wales, which was released in 1976, was widely respected, with many commentators and viewers seeing Eastwood's role as an influential one that linked to America's roots and the country's future after the American Civil War. Roger Ebert compared the appearance and fragility of Eastwood's portrayal of Josey Wales with his Man with No Name character in the Dollars westerns, while still admiring the film's atmosphere. The film will later appear in Time's "Top 10 Films of the Year."

Benjamin L. Willard, who played Benjamin L. Willard in Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, was initially accepted, but he did not want to spend weeks on location in the Philippines. In Ted Post's Vietnam War film, Go Tell the Spartans, he also declined to star in a platoon leader, but instead made a third Dirty Harry film, The Enforcer (1976). Callahan was sent by a new female cop (Tyne Daly) to face a San Francisco Bay group resembling the Symbionese Liberation Army. The film, which culminated in a shootout on Alcatraz Island, was much shorter than the previous Dirty Harry films at 95 minutes, but it was a huge commercial success worldwide, grossing $100 million to become Eastwood's highest-grossing film to date.

In The Gauntlet (1977), Eastwood directed and starred Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney, and Mara Corday. He portrays a down-and-out cop who is sent from Las Vegas to Phoenix to testify against the gang. Despite being a moderate success in the viewing public, critics had mixed reactions about the film, with some saying it was overly violent. In comparison, Ebert gave the film three leads and dubbed it "classic Clint Eastwood: fast, raucous, and funny." In Every Which Way But Loose (1978), the actor plays an uncharacteristic offbeat comedy. Philo Beddoe's character, as well as his best friend, Orville Boggs (played by Geoffrey Lewis), and an orangutan called Clyde, roams the American West looking for a lost love (Locke). Upon its debut, the film was surprisingly profitable, and it became Eastwood's most commercially profitable film to date. It was ranked high among the box-office hits of his career and the second-highest-grossing film of 1978, according to critics.

In Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the last of his films directed by Siegel, Eastwood appeared. Frank Lee Morris, who, along with John and Clarence Anglin, escaped from the notorious Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in 1962, it was based on the true story of the man. The film was a big success; Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic praised it as "crystalline cinema" and Frank Rich of Time described it as "cool, cinematic grace."

Bronco Billy (1980), with Locke, Scatman Crothers, and Sam Bottoms, Eastwood starred and appeared in the role. Bronco Billy has been cited as one of his career's most relaxed shootings, and Eastwood's biographer Richard Schickel argues that Bronco Billy is Eastwood's most self-referential person. The film was a commercial disappointment, but critics loved it. Janet Maslin of The New York Times described the film as "the best and funniest Clint Eastwood film in a while" and lauded Eastwood's directing, intricately juxtaposing the old West and the new West, according to Janet Maslin of The New York Times. Any Which Way You Can was the sequel to Every Which Way, but Loose, and also starring Eastwood, and it was released later in 1980. Critics gave the film a number of scathing reviews, but Maslin called it "funnier and even better than its predecessor." Any Which Way You Can was a big box office success and ranked among the top five highest-grossing films of the year in theaters over the Christmas season.

Honkytonk Man (1982), based on the eponymous Clancy Carlile's depression-era book, was directed and performed by Eastwood. Red Stovall, a struggling western singer who suffers from tuberculosis, is depicted by Eastwood, but the Grand Ole Opry has given him the opportunity to make it big. He is taken by his teenage nephew (played by real-life son Kyle) to Nashville, Tennessee, where he is supposed to record a song. In the United States, Only Time gave the film a positive review, with the majority of reviewers scathing the film's mix of muted humor and tragedy. Nevertheless, the film received a more favourable reception in France, where it was compared to John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, and it has since received a 93 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Eastwood also appeared, produced, and starred in the Cold War-themed Firefox around the same time (1982). The film, which was based on Craig Thomas' 1977 novel with the same name, was shot before but not released after Honkytonk Man. Due to the Cold War, Russian filming locations were not feasible, and the film had to be shot in Vienna and other Austria locations to resemble several of the Eurasian story locations. It was Eastwood's highest budget film to date, with a production cost of $20 million. "Luke Skywalker trapped in Dirty Harry's Soul" was compared to Eastwood's appearance in "Lety Harry's Soul," according to a People magazine.

In the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact, which was shot in 1983 and released in December, Eastwood directed and starred. It is regarded as the series's most gruesome and violent. By this time, Eastwood had earned 60% of all proceeds from films he appeared in and directed, with the remainder going to the studio. Sudden Impact was Locke's last on-screen collaboration. She plays an artist who, with her sister, was gang-raped a decade before the story unfolds and seeks revenge for her sister's now-vegetable state by systematically killing the rapists. One of cinema's immortal lines is "Go ahead, make my day," the line (uttered by Eastwood during an early scene in a coffee shop) has been described as one of the movie's immortal lines. During the 1984 presidential election, President Ronald Reagan quoted it in a speech to Congress and later used during the 1984 presidential election. After the success of The Enforcer, which earned $70 million, the film became the second most commercially lucrative of Dirty Harry films. It received glowing reviews, with several commentators lauding the film's feminist aspects in its investigation into the physical and psychological implications of rape.

In a dramatic thriller influenced by newspaper articles about a elusive Bay Area rapist, Tightrope (1984) had Eastwood playing opposite Geneviève Bujold. Eastwood played a young cop drawn into his victim's tortured emotions and apprehension for sadomasochism in New Orleans in order to avoid confusion with the Dirty Harry films. Tightrope was a critical and commercial hit, and it became the fourth highest-grossing R-rated film of 1984. In the Prohibition period of the 1930s, Eastwood starred in the crime comedy City Heat (also 1984), a film about an ex-cop turned private eye and his former police lieutenant partner who became mixed up with gangsters. Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop overshadowed the film's grossing around $50 million domestically, but it was overshadowed by Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop.

With the series Vanessa in the Garden (1985), which starred Harvey Keitel and Locke as a married couple, Eastwood moved his first foray into television. This was Steven Spielberg's first collaboration, who later co-produced Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. When he directed and starred in Pale Rider (1985), a film based on the classic western Shane (1953), he follows a preacher who descends from the mists of the Sierras to side with the miners during the California Gold Rush of 1850. The name refers to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the rider of the pale horse is Death, and it has traces in Eastwood's western High Plains Drifter (1973) in terms of morality and justice as well as the search of the supernatural. "This year (1985) will go down in film history as the moment Clint Eastwood finally earned respect as an artist," it was dubbed one of the best western films of 1985 and the best western to appear for a lengthy period.

In the 1983 United States invasion of Grenada, Eastwood co-starred with Marsha Mason in the military drama Heartbreak Ridge (1986). He portrays a United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant soldier of the Korean War and Vietnam War who knows he is approaching the end of his military service. Internal tensions between Eastwood and long-time collaborator and producer Fritz Manes, as well as Eastwood's Department of Defense, who expressed contempt for the film, interrupted production and filming. At the time, the film was more popular than a critical success, and it has only recently been regarded more positively. The film earned $70 million worldwide.

In The Dead Pool (1988), the fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry series, Eastwood appeared. Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, and a young Jim Cary, a drug-addled rock star, and the first of the victims on a list of celebrities deemed most likely to die, the so-called "Dead Pool" starred horror film director Peter Swan (Neeson). Dirty Harry is also included on the list because an obsessive fan of his favorite director makes his way through the list of celebrities killing celebrities. The Dead Pool earned almost $38 million, albeit with very little funds for a Dirty Harry film. It's generally thought of as the worst film of the series, though Roger Ebert said it was as good as the original.

Eastwood began working on smaller, more personal projects, and in 1992, he experienced a lull in his career. He directed Bird (1988), a biopic starring Forest Whitaker as jazz guitarist Charlie "Bird" Parker, who was always interested in jazz. Jackie McLean and Spike Lee, son of jazz bassist Bill Lee and a longtime Eastwood critic, slammed Charlie Parker's portrayal of him, saying that it did not capture his essence and sense of humor. Two Golden Globes for the film, the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his lifetime service, and the Best Director award were given to Eastwood. On the other hand, Bird was a commercial failure, grossing just $11 million, which Eastwood attributed to the black people's losing interest in jazz. Cary will appear with Eastwood in the ineffective comedy Pink Cadillac (1989), which was released in the United States. The film follows a bounty hunter and a group of white supremacists searching an innocent woman (Bernadette Peters) who attempts to outrun everyone in her husband's expensive pink Cadillac. The film failed both critically and commercially, earning less than Bird and marking a low point in Eastwood's career.

In White Hunter Black Heart (1990), Peter Viertel's roman à clef adaptation about John Huston and the making of the classic film The African Queen, Eastwood directed and starred. The film, shot on location in Zimbabwe in 1989, received some critical attention, but only a limited number earned $8.4 million. In The Rookie, a buddy cop action film that was released in December 1990, Eastwood directed and co-starred Charlie Sheen. Critics found the film's plot and characterization unsatisfaction, but it praised the film's action sequences. No Eastwood films were shown in theaters in 1991 due to an pending lawsuit in response to the alleged ramming of a woman's car. Eastwood won the case and agreed to compensate the complainant's court costs if she did not appeal.

In Unforgiven (1992), a film in which he directed and starred as an elderly ex-gunfighter long past his prime, Eastwood revisited the western genre. Scripts existed for the film as early as 1976 under titles such as The Cut-Whore Killings and The William Munny Killings, but Eastwood postponed the project because he wanted to wait until he was old enough to play his character and savor it as the last of his western films. Unforgiven was a major commercial and critical success; Jack Methews of the Los Angeles Times described it as "the best classical western to appear since perhaps John Ford's 1956 The Searchers." The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Eastwood and Best Original Screenplay for David Webb People,) and four others were named, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. In June 2008, Unforgiven was ranked as the fourth best American western, behind Shane, High Noon, and The Searchers in the American Film Institute's "AFI"s top ten list.

In the Secret Service thriller In the Line of Fire (1993), directed by Wolfgang Petersen and co-starring John Malkovich and Rene Russo, Eastwood played Frank Horrigan. Horrigan is haunted by his inability to save John F. Kennedy's life. Eastwood's first appearance on Quigley's Top ten Money Making Stars Poll in that year was number one, grossing $102 million in the United States alone, and 25 years after being first ranked number one on Quigley's Top ten Most Popular Artists Poll, the film was voted number one again. Eastwood directed and co-starred Kevin Costner in A Perfect World, just a few months after film ended. Eastwood portrays a Texas Ranger set in the 1960s as a young child (Costner) who hits the road with a young child (T.J. Lowther). The film, according to Janet Maslin of The New York Times, marked the high point of Eastwood's directing career, and has since been regarded as one of his most underrated directorial accomplishments.

Eastwood was given the Ordre des Lettres Memorial Award at the 67th Academy Awards in May 1994, and he received France's Ordre des Lettres medal on March 27, 1995. In the children's film Casper (1995), his next film appearance was as himself in a cameo role. He broadened his repertoire by appearing in The Bridges of Madison County with Meryl Streep (also 1995). Robert Kincaid (Eastwood), a photographer for National Geographic who, while photographing historic covered bridges in Iowa, meets and has a romance with Francesca, an Italian-born farm wife (Streep). Despite receiving critical feedback, The Bridges of Madison County film was a commercial and critical success. "Streep and Eastwood weave a spell, and it is based on the right idea of love and self that comes with middle age," Roger Ebert wrote. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in France for Best Foreign Film, and it was honoured with a César Award in France. In addition, St. Troph was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.

Eastwood conceived and appeared in the 1997 film Absolute Power (1998), alongside Gene Hackman (with whom he had appeared in Unforgiven). Eastwood played a veteran robber who was witnessing the Uncover Service's cover-up of a murder. Critics generally dismissed the film as mixed. In 1997, Eastwood produced Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, based on John Berendt's book and starring John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Jude Law. The film received mixed critical reception.

In True Crime (1999), Eastwood produced and starred. Steve Everett, a journalist and recovering alcoholic, who must cover the assassination of Frank Beechum (played by Isaiah Washington). True Crime had a mixed reception, with Janet Maslin of The New York Times writing that "his path is galvanized by a sense of second chances and tragic misunderstandings" and compared a greater sense of justice with crime's peculiar minutiae. But, he may have pushed a shade too far in the latter direction." The film was a box office fail with less than half of its $55 million budget, and it was Eastwood's worst-performing film of the 1990s, other than White Hunter Black Heart, which had limited availability.

In Space Cowboys (2000), Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner starred. Eastwood was one of a team of veteran ex-test pilots sent into space to fix an old Soviet satellite. Eastwood and Lennie Niehaus composed the original music score. Space Cowboys received a 79 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, although Roger Ebert wrote that the film was "too solid within its conventional story structure to put much at risk." The film's United States premiere grossed more than $90 million, more than doubledoutput: Both Eastwood's previous films combined. In the thriller Blood Work (2002), based on Michael Connelly's 1998 novel of the same name, Eastwood played an ex-FBI agent tracking a tragic killer (Jeff Daniels). The film was a commercial failure, grossing just $26.2 million on an estimated budget of $50 million and receiving mixed reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes describing it as "well-made but marred by lethargic pacing."

Eastwood produced and scored the crime drama Mystic River (2003), a film starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, and Tim Robbins, and was directed by and scored by David Anderson. Critics and journalists alike lauded the film for two Academy Awards – Best Actor for Penn and Best Supporting Actor for Robbins – with Eastwood receiving awards for Best Director and Best Picture. On a $30 million budget, the film earned $90 million domestically. The National Society of Film Critics selected Eastwood as Best Director of the Year in 2003.

Using Million Dollar Baby, Eastwood found a new level of acclaim this year. (Morgan Freeman) The boxing drama received four Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Hilary Swank) and Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman). At the age of 74, Eastwood became the oldest of eighteen directors to have produced two or more Best Picture winners. In addition, he was nominated for Best Actor, Grammy nomination for his film, and he was named the recipient of a Golden Globe for Best Director, which was given to him by daughter Kathryn, who was Miss Golden Globe at the 2005 event. A. O. Scott of The New York Times praised the film as a "masterpiece" and the year's best film.

In 2006, Eastwood directed two films about World War II's Battle of Iwo Jima. Flags of Our Fathers, the first film version of Eastwood's son Scott, was focusing on the men who carried the American flag on the summit of Mount Suribachi. Letters from Iwo Jima, which were concerned with the Japanese soldiers' behaviour on the island and letters sent home to family members, were followed by letters. Letters from Iwo Jima was the first American film to portray a war issue entirely from the point of view of an American enemy. Both films received numerous accolades at the 79th Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for Letters from Iwo Jima. Both films received nominations for Best Director at the 64th Golden Globe Awards. Letters from Iwo Jima were nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the International Language Film Awards.

Changeling (2008), based on a true tale set in the late 1920s, was directed by Eastwood. Angelina Jolie portrays a woman who returned with her missing son only to discover he is an impostor. Following its debut at several film festivals, the film earned over $110 million, the majority of which came from overseas markets. Changeling's portrayal was highly praised, with Damon Wise of Empire describing it as "flawless." Todd McCarthy of Variety magazine described it as "emotionally rich and stylistically sure-handed" and that the film's characters and social analysis were brought into the story with a "most surprising deliberation." At the 66th Golden Globe Awards, Best Original Score, Best Direction at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards, and Film Critics Circle awards for the film, Eastwood received nominations for Best Original Score.

Eastwood completed his four-year "self-imposed acting hiatus" by appearing in Gran Torino (also 2008), where he also directed, produced, and partially scored with his son Kyle and Jamie Cullum. Here age and cynical, but able to continue fighting whenever the need arises, biographer Marc Eliot described Eastwood's role as "a mash-up of the Man with No Name, Dirty Harry, and William Munny." Gran Torino's debut in January 2009 brought the most money in his first weekend as an actor or producer. Gran Torino's worldwide grossing movie, Without adjustment for inflation, grossed over $268 million in theaters, becoming the highest-grossing film of Eastwood's career so far.

Invictus (2009), a film based on the lives of the South African team during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Matt Damon as Ruben Kruger, and Grant L. Roberts as Ruben Kruger, was Eastwood's 30th directorial outing. The film received generally glowing feedback; Roger Ebert gave it three and a half stars and described it as a "very good film with moments evoking great emotion," Variety's Todd McCarthy wrote: "Understanding on the face of it, Clint Eastwood's film has a predictable course, but every scene brims with surprising information that build into a rich fabric of history, cultural images, and emotion." At the 67th Golden Globe Awards, Eastwood was nominated for Best Director for the film.

He portrayed a psychic in the Eastwood-directed Hereafter (2010). On September 12, 2010, the film made its world premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and had a limited release later this month. "Despite a thought-provoking plot and Clint Eastwood's signature as director, Rotten Tomatoes" received mixed reviews from reviewers, "Hereafter, there was no such drama," straddling the boundary between poignant sentimentality and hokey tedium." Eastwood was executive producer on a Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, Dave Brubeck, Dave Brubeck, and his 90th birthday (1989).

J. Edgar (2011), a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was directed by Eastwood, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. The film received mixed reviews, though DiCaprio's performance as Hoover was lauded. Roger Ebert wrote that the film is "fascinating," "masterful," and praised DiCaprio's contribution. "It's too bad J. Edgar is so shapeless, turgid, and ham-handed," David Edelstein of New York Magazine wrote, "It's too bad." As a veteran baseball scout who travels with his daughter for his last scouting trip, Eastwood appeared in the baseball drama Trouble with the Curve (2012). The film was directed by Robert Lorenz, who appeared on several films with Eastwood as an assistant director on several films.

During Super Bowl XLVI, Eastwood narrated a halftime commercial for Chrysler titled "Halftime in America" (2012). Several Republican senators in the United States condemned the commercial, who said it implied that President Barack Obama deserved a second term. "I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama," Eastwood said in reaction to the criticism. It was supposed to be a warning about job growth and America's spirit.

Jersey Boys (2014), a musical biography based on the Tony Award-winning musical, was directed by Eastwood. The film told the story of the musical group The Four Seasons. Following Steven Spielberg's departure from the project, Eastwood directed American Sniper (also 2014), a film adaptation of Chris Kyle's eponymous memoir. On December 25, 2014, the film was released. American Sniper grossed more than $350 million nationally and $547 million globally, making it one of Eastwood's biggest films commercially. Tom Hanks' next film, Sully, starred Chesley Sullenberger, who safely landed the US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in an emergency landing, ensuring that all passengers on board were safe. Eastwood's new commercial success in September 2016 was another commercial success, grossing over $238 million globally. Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, and Alek Skarlatos, all non-professional actors, appeared in The 15:17 to Paris (2018), a film about the 2015 Thalys train strike in Paris. Critics generally dismissed the film's performance, who were largely dismissive of the three leads' acting. Eastwood appeared and directed The Mule, which was released in December 2018. Earl Stone, an elderly drug smuggler based on Leo Sharp's first appearance since Trouble with the Curve in 2012.

Eastwood will direct The Ballad of Richard Jewell, based on the life of heroic security guard Richard Jewell, who was wrongly accused in the 1996 Olympic bombing. Richard Jewell, Eastwood's third direct film with the corporation, was retitled simply Richard Jewell, Eastwood directed and produced the film. Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio had intended to star in the film in 2014 when it was to be directed by Paul Greengrass, but DiCaprio and Hill would eventually act as producers on Eastwood's film. Paul Walter Hauser appears in the titular role, as well as Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde in supporting roles. Richard Jewell was first filming on June 24, 2019, and on December 13, 2019.

In October 2020, Eastwood will produce, produce, and star in Cry Macho, an Americanization of Warner Bros. Pictures' 1975 book of the same name. Between November and December 2020, the film was shot in New Mexico. It was published on September 17, 2021, to mixed reviews and commercial failure.

Eastwood, who started with the thriller Play Misty for Me, has produced over 30 films, including Westerns, adventure films, musicals, and dramas. He is one of the few leading Hollywood actors to have also become a highly respected and profitable producer. David Denby of the New Yorker wrote that, unlike Eastwood, he was not afraid of Eastwood.

Eastwood was frustrated by the producers' insistence that scenes be shot multiple times and perfected, and as he began directing in 1970, he made a conscious effort to avoid any aspects of casting he had been indifferent to as an actor. As a result, Eastwood is known for his effective film direction, as well as his ability to minimize film time and budget control. He usually avoids actor rehearsing and prefers to finish most scenes on the first try. The Coen Brothers' quick filmmaking techniques of Eastwood have been compared to Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and the Coen Brothers. He often takes over directing, as in the case of The Outlaw Josey Wales, if production is too slow. Storyboards are rarely used to determine the order of a shooting schedule in preparation for filming. He also wants to minimize script background on characters in order to make the audience more involved in the film, considering that imagination is a prerequisite for a film that connects with viewers. Eastwood has said he lay out a film's plan to provide the audience with the right information but not "so much that it insults their intelligence."

"Eastwood's style is to shoot first and then act afterward," the Life magazine says. He parades his characters with a virtually no word. He has mastered the art of underplaying to the extent that anyone around him who is sorely flinches looks hammered. Those interviews were Richard Thompson and Tim Hunter, who wrote that Eastwood's films are "very paced; cool; and [give] a strong sense of real time, despite the story's speed," while Ric Gentry thinks Eastwood's pace is "unrushed and relaxed." To give his films a "noir-ish" feel, Eastwood is fond of low-key lighting and back-lighting.

Scholars have piqued interest in Eastwood's continuing study of ethical values, including his portrayal of justice, mercy, suicide, and the angel of death.

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