Clint Eastwood (Clint Eastwood) – the award-winning actor and director – turns 93 today, still active and active.

THE Eastwood started his career as an actor in the 1950s and since then he has never stopped working in the movies – either in front of or behind the cameras.

He established himself as an actor in the 1960s through spaghetti western Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, Duel in El Paso and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Eastwood as Mango, the Man With No Name, stars as a bounty hunter in A Fistful of Bucks

His film career generally remains identified with the tough-guy hero roles that made him famous as an actor. An emblematic role in his career was Inspector Callahan (Dirty Harry), who played him in a total of five films, the first in 1971.

Director Clint and the Oscars

He was directing films as early as the 70s, but in 1992, at the age of 62, he directed the film “The Unforgiven». The film received excellent reviews, was nominated for several awards and eventually won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Clint Eastwood won the Academy Award for Best Director and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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Oscars 1993: Clint Eastwood, left, and Gene Hackman hold the three Oscars they won for The Unforgiven, Eastwood for Picture and Director and Hackman for Supporting Actor

In the following years, his directorial works are widely recognized and establish him as one of the most important American directors.

He won a second Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for the film Million Dollar Baby (which also won the Oscar for Best Picture) as well as two other nominations.

Among the favorite films he directed were the emotional and atmospheric ones Gran Torino in 2008, where he also held the leading role.