Follow Eastwood's career from television star to matinee idol to Oscar-winning director. Eastwood's filmography is focused on action and consequences, stories of strong and silent heroes and antiheroes who do their work, mull their regrets, get the job done, and then go about their business, hoping to leave the world a little bit better in the process. Eastwood got his start working as an actor in the 1950s and '60s, most notably in a trio of epic spaghetti Westerns by Italian director Sergio Leone. In those films, Eastwood played a gunslinger who rarely speaks and is never identified, known widely as the Man With No Name. In the early 1970s, Eastwood would move behind the camera to direct his own films, and his work retained the same stoic sensibility. Now a two-time Academy Award winner for best director, twice winner of the Directors Guild of America Award for best director, and recipient of countless other critics prizes and nominations in multiple capacities, Clint Eastwood stands as one of the finest directors working in modern cinema.
