On March 30, 2019, actor, director, producer and writer Warren Beatty will celebrate his 82nd birthday. Beatty has had one of the most celebrated careers in movie history amassing 14 Oscar nominations in various categories along the way. He won the 1981 Best Director Oscar for his passion project “Reds” a three hour and fifteen-minute film about the Russian revolution. It was hardly a topic people thought would work on film but Beatty made it work (although the film would shockingly lose the Best Picture Oscar to “Chariots of Fire” in one of Oscar’s more surprising Best Picture moves.)

Beatty followed his older sister Shirley MacLaine into the acting profession. He began his career with appearances in television before finding success on Broadway in the play “A Loss of Roses.” The play only ran a few weeks but Beatty was a standout among the cast and received the play’s only Tony nomination.