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Kevin
Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an Academy
Award-winning American film actor, director and producer. One of
Costner's most successful films was Dances with Wolves (1990),
which won seven Academy Awards, including (Best Picture and Best
Director). Costner's biggest success was the epic Dances with
Wolves (1990). He directed and starred in the film and served as
one of two producers. The film was nominated for twelve Academy
Awards and won seven, including two for him personally (Best
Picture and Best Director). Costner followed this with Robin Hood:
Prince Of Thieves (1991), the Oliver Stone-directed JFK (1991),
The Bodyguard (1992), and Clint
Eastwood's A Perfect World, (1993), all of which provided huge
box office takings or critical acclaim. He then took the title
role in the biopic Wyatt Earp (1994), directed by established
collaborator Lawrence Kasdan, which fizzled at the summer 1994 box
office. The science fiction epics Waterworld (1995) and The
Postman (1997), Costner's career revived somewhat in 2000 with
Thirteen Days. Open Range, in which he directed and starred,
received high critical acclaim in 2003 as a Revisionist Western,
though it was only a minor success commercially. Costner starred
in The Guardian and in Mr.
Brooks (2007), and the comedy Swing Vote (2008) ... more |
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