Clint Eastwood to Receive Honorary Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award From Art Directors Guild On Feb. 24.

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LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2000

Legendary filmmaker and actor Clint Eastwood, whose current Warner Bros. film "Space Cowboys" is receiving wide acclaim and popularity, has been voted this year's honorary Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award by the Executive Board of the Art Directors Guild (ADG), it was announced today by ADG President Jack De Govia and Awards Chairman Michael Baugh.

The presentation to Eastwood will take place during the ADG's Fifth Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2000, from the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

The award is voted from time to time to an individual whose body of work in the film business has richly enhanced the visual aspects of the movie-going experience. Past recipients of this honor are Blake Edwards, Robert S. Wise and Norman Jewison.

As previously announced, production designer Jan Scott, winner of more primetime Emmy Awards than any other production designer in television history, will receive the organization's Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award that same night.

Clint Eastwood holds a unique position in the motion picture pantheon with his stand-out portrayals as an actor and his distinguished career as director and producer. Starting as a contract player in 1955, he has since starred in 43 films (appearing in 54), directed 22 and produced 17. In 11 films he has taken on all three duties.

In January 2000 he accepted a Lifetime Career Achievement Award from New York's National Board of Review. The People's Choice Awards named him Favorite Motion Picture Actor five times.

He has received many other honors both in the United States and in Europe including the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Early this month in Washington, Eastwood received a Kennedy Center Honor in recognition of his career as an actor and filmmaker.

In 1993 Eastwood's "Unforgiven" received nine Academy Award nominations and four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film also won awards throughout the world. His 1996 film, "The Bridges of Madison County" was the recipient of many honors. His films "Bird," "Pale Rider" and "White Hunter, Black Heart" also received worldwide recognition.

A long-standing relationship has also existed between Eastwood and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, whose film archivists presented the first Honorary Retrospective of his work in 1980 and then expanded the program in 1993 for a second tribute.

This was followed by similar events on behalf of the French Cinematheque in 1985, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1990 and the British Film Institute, which made Eastwood a Fellow in 1992.

Clint Eastwood got his first real acting break on the television series "Rawhide," in which he starred for 6 years starting in 1958. This was followed by his indelible performances as "the man with no name" in the so-called spaghetti westerns directed by Sergio Leone, "A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

Then, of course, came his five Dirty Harry movies. Other memorable Eastwood films include "Where Eagles Dare," "Paint Your Wagon," "Two Mules for Sister Sarah," "Kelly's Heroes," "High Plains Drifter," "Magnum Force," "The Eiger Sanction," "The Outlaw Josey Wales," "Every Which Way But Loose," "Escape from Alcatraz," "Bronco Billy," "Any Which Way You Can," "Firefox," "Honky Tonk Man," "Tightrope," "Heartbreak Ridge," "The Dead Pool" and "Pink Cadillac."

"Play Misty for Me" marked Eastwood's directing debut and as in many of his films, jazz was an integral part, particularly in "Bird," the story of jazz great, Charlie Parker.

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