Kevin Costner
Costner visiting Andrews Air Force Base in July 2003
Born | Kevin Michael Costner (1955-01-18) January 18, 1955 (age 58) Lynwood, California, U.S.
Occupation | Actor, producer, director; musician
Years active | 1974?present
Spouse(s) | Cindy Silva (1978?1994) Christine Baumgartner (2004?present)
Children | 7

Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and businessman. He has won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and one Emmy Award, and has been nominated for three BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards. Costner's roles include Lt. John J. Dunbar in the film Dances with Wolves, Jim Garrison in JFK, Ken O'Donnell in Thirteen Days, Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Crash Davis in Bull Durham, Robert "Butch" Haynes in A Perfect World, Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard, Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell in No Way Out, Mariner in Waterworld, Eliot Ness in The Untouchables and Devil Anse Hatfield in Hatfields McCoys, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Costner will be playing the role of Superman's adoptive father, Jonathan Kent, in the 2013 film, Man of Steel. Costner also founded the band Modern West, and has performed with the band since 2007.

## Early life[edit]

Costner was born in Lynwood, California, the youngest of three sons (the middle of whom died at birth). His mother, Sharon Rae (n?e Tedrick), was a welfare worker, and his father, William Costner, was an electrician and later utilities executive at Southern California Edison.[1][2] Costner's patrilineal heritage originates with German immigrants to South Carolina in the 1700s;[3] he also has English and Irish ancestry, and has said that one of his ancestors had "married a Cherokee woman".[3][4][5][6] Costner was raised Baptist.[7] He attended Cabrillo Middle School and Villa Park High School. Costner was not academically inclined. Rather, he enjoyed sports, took piano lessons, wrote poetry and sang in the First Baptist Choir.[1][8] He has stated that a viewing of the film How the West Was Won at the age of seven had "formed" his childhood.[3]

Spending his teenage years in various parts of California as his father's career progressed,[3] Costner has described this as a period when he "lost a lot of confidence", having to make new friends often.[3] Costner lived in Orange County, then in Visalia (Tulare County), attending Mt. Whitney High School, and then back to Ventura, graduating from Buena High School in 1973. He went on to earn a B.A. in marketing and finance from California State University, Fullerton, in 1978.[3]

## Career[edit]

### Acting[edit]

Costner in 2003

Costner allegedly made his film debut in the film Sizzle Beach, U.S.A. Although a biography claims it was actually filmed in the winter of 1978?1979, the film was not released until 1986.

Costner made a very brief cameo in the 1982 Ron Howard film Night Shift, he is listed in the credits as 'Frat Boy No.?1' and appears at the climax of a frat-style, blow-out party in the New York City morgue, when the music is suddenly stopped by a frantic Henry Winkler, Costner can be seen holding a beer and looking surprised at the sudden halt of celebration.

He appeared in a commercial for the Apple Lisa and Table for Five in 1983, and, the same year, had a small role in the nuclear holocaust film Testament. Later, he was cast in The Big Chill and filmed several scenes that were planned as flashbacks, but they were removed from the final cut.[3] His role was that of Alex, the friend who committed suicide, the event that brings the rest of the cast together. All that is seen of him are his hair and his slashed wrists as the mortician dresses his corpse in the movie's opening scenes.[9] Costner was a friend of director Lawrence Kasdan, who promised the actor a role in a future project.[3] That became 1985's Silverado and a breakout role for Costner.[3] He also starred that year in the smaller films Fandango and American Flyers.

Full-blown movie star status for Costner arrived in 1987, when he starred as federal agent Eliot Ness in The Untouchables and in the leading role of the thriller No Way Out.[3] He solidified his A-list status in the baseball-themed films Bull Durham (1988) and Field of Dreams (1989).[3]

Costner's next success came with the epic Dances with Wolves (1990).[3] He directed and starred in the film and served as one of its producers.[3] The film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, including two for him personally (Best Picture and Best Director).[3] The same year saw the release of Revenge, in which he starred along with Anthony Quinn and Madeleine Stowe, directed by Tony Scott (Costner had wanted to direct it himself).

He 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 box office or critical acclaim.[3]

He then took the title role in the biopic Wyatt Earp (1994), directed by Kasdan. It received mixed reviews and flopped[citation needed] at the box office. The science fiction-post-apocalyptic epics Waterworld (1995) and The Postman (1997), the latter of which Costner also directed, were both commercial disappointments and both largely regarded by critics as artistic failures.[3] However, The Postman results were worse than Waterworld and ended up "winning" five Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor and Worst Director for Costner.[10]

Costner then starred in the golf comedy Tin Cup (1996) for Ron Shelton, who had previously directed him in Bull Durham.[3] He developed the film Air Force One and was set to play the lead role of the President, but ultimately decided to concentrate on finishing The Postman instead. He personally offered the project to Harrison Ford.

His career revived somewhat in 2000 with Thirteen Days, in which he portrayed a top adviser to John F. Kennedy. The western Open Range, which he directed and starred in, received critical acclaim in 2003, and was a surprise success commercially. He received some of his best reviews for his supporting role as retired professional baseball player Denny Davies in The Upside of Anger, for which he received a nomination from the Broadcast Film Critics Association and won the San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor.

After that, Costner starred in The Guardian and in Mr. Brooks, in which he portrayed a serial killer. In 2008, Costner starred in Swing Vote. Costner was honored on September 6, 2006 when his hand and foot prints were set in concrete in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre alongside those of other celebrated actors and entertainers.

In 2010, he appeared in The Company Men alongside Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, and received good reviews. It was released in cinemas worldwide in January 2011. The film was considered to be an Oscar contender, but did not get a nomination.

Costner announced that he would be returning to the director's chair for the first time in seven years in 2011 with A Little War of Our Own. The film is about a local sheriff who must keep his town from erupting into violence during World War II. The other lead role is that of a German U-boat captain. The screenplay is by Dan Gordon, who co-wrote another sheriff movie for Costner, 1994's Wyatt Earp. In January 2012 Costner had to admit funding did not come through, and that he still hopes to make it in 2013.

He was also about to team up again with director Kevin Reynolds in Learning Italian. Costner would play a CIA agent stationed in a coastal Italian town in order to keep an eye on a KGB operative. However, the movie did not get past pre-production phase because Costner and Reynolds could not get the money together.

He also appears, as a special cameo, in Funny or Die's "Field of Dreams 2: Lockout".

Warner Bros. confirmed that Costner would portray Jonathan Kent in the upcoming rebooted Superman film, Man of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder.[11] In 2011, Costner confirmed his role in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.[12] Later on, it was announced that Costner had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.

Costner also appeared in the three-part miniseries Hatfields McCoys, which premiered on May 28, 2012 on the History Channel. It immediately broke a record by pulling 13.9 million viewers. The miniseries tells the true American story of a legendary family feud ? one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The role earned Costner a 2012 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.[13]

### Country music[edit]

Costner on stage in July 2010
Main article: Kevin Costner Modern West

Costner is the singer in Kevin Costner Modern West, a country rock band which he founded with the encouragement of his wife Christine. They began a worldwide tour in October 2007, which included shows in Istanbul and Rome. The group also performed at NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Daytona International Speedway and Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, NC.

The band released a country album, Untold Truths, on November 11, 2008 on Universal South Records. The album peaked at No.?61 on the Billboard Top Country Albums and No.?35 on the Top Heatseekers chart. Three singles ("Superman 14", "Long Hot Night" and "Backyard") have been released to radio, although none have charted. The single "Superman 14" has been made into a live music video.

In 2009, they went on tour with opening act The Alternate Routes. In August, at the Big Valley Jamboree in Camrose, Alberta, Costner and the band were scheduled next on stage when a severe thunderstorm struck, collapsing the stage and stands on the main stage. One person was reported dead and forty injured.[14] Later, an auction was held to raise money for the two young sons of the woman killed. A dinner with Costner was auctioned off for $41,000. Two guitars, one autographed by Costner, helped raise another $10,000 each.[15]

A second Kevin Costner and Modern West album, Turn It On, was released in February 2010 in Europe[16] and was supported by a European tour.[17]

In July 2012, the band performed in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the 20th annual Telus World Skins Game in support of the IWK Health Centre Foundation, donating a guitar personally autographed by Costner.[18]

## Other ventures[edit]

### Baseball[edit]

Several of Costner's films have included a baseball theme. They include Chasing Dreams, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, For Love of the Game and The Upside of Anger, in which his character is a former pro baseball player.

He has a home in Austin, Texas and sometimes appears at University of Texas baseball practices and games. Costner is a close friend of Longhorns baseball coach Augie Garrido from Garrido's days coaching at Cal State Fullerton, the actor's alma mater. He cast Garrido to play the role of the Yankee manager in For Love of the Game. He tries to attend every College World Series game that Cal State Fullerton plays in Omaha, Nebraska.

Costner is a partial owner of the Zion, Illinois-based Lake County Fielders independent baseball team team in the North American League. The Fielders name is an homage to Field of Dreams, with the logo showing a ballplayer standing amid a field of corn.[19][20]

### Business interests[edit]

In July 2004, Costner fired Francis and Carla Caneva, who managed the Midnight Star. A judge subsequently ordered Costner to pay a percentage of $6.1 million to buy out the Canevas as his business partners. In October 2006, Costner asked the South Dakota Supreme Court to re-examine the ruling, as an accountant hired by the actor had determined the market value of the casino to be $3.1 million.[21]

In 1995, Costner began developing oil separation machines based on a patent he purchased from the US government. The machines developed by the company were of little commercial interest until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, when BP took six of the machines from a company in which Costner owned an interest, Ocean Therapy Solutions, for testing in late May 2010.[22] On June 16, 2010 BP entered into a lease with Ocean Therapy Solutions for 32 of the oil-water separation devices.[23] Although Spyron Contoguris and Stephen Baldwin previously sold their interests in Ocean Therapy Solutions in mid-June to another investor in the company, they filed a lawsuit in Louisiana District Court claiming $10.64 million for securities fraud and misrepresentation. The suit claimed that Costner kept a meeting with BP secret from them, and the secret meeting resulted in an $18 million down payment on a $52 million purchase and that after the down payment but before any announcement another investor used part of the downpayment to buy out their shares, thus excluding them from their share of the profits from the total sale.[24] The suit claimed that, despite public statements by Costner, Ocean Therapy Solutions, BP and others to the contrary, Baldwin and Contogouris were told that BP was still testing the machines and had not yet committed to lease the machines from Ocean Therapy Solutions and that the other investor in Ocean Therapy Solutions purchased their shares for $1.4 million to Baldwin and $500,000, to Contogouris.[25] In June 2012, a federal jury in Louisiana deliberated for less than 2 hours before completely rejecting Baldwin's and Contogouris' claims in the multi-million dollar oil clean-up case, and the court ordered Baldwin and Contogouris to reimburse Costner and the other defendants in the case for their costs.[26]

### Philanthropy[edit]

Costner serves on an honorary board for The National World War I Museum in Kansas City. In spring 2011, he recorded two radio spots for the museum that were aired on Kansas City Royals Radio Network.[27]

### NASCAR[edit]

Costner was named ceremonial Grand Marshal of the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series' Auto Club 500 which took place on February 25, 2007, at the California Speedway.[28] In 2008, he worked with the NASCAR Media Group and CMT Films to help produce the NASCAR Documentary, The Ride of Their Lives which would be released in 2009. Costner would be the narrator for that documentary. Also in 2009, he was named the spokesperson for NASCAR Day which took place on May 15. The next day, May 16, he and his country music band would perform in the infield of Lowe's Motor Speedway as well as participate as a judge in the 2nd annual Pennzoil Victory Challenge before the 25th Running of the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

## Personal life[edit]

### Relationships[edit]

While in college, Costner was a member of Delta Chi fraternity.[1] He started dating fellow student Cindy Silva in March 1975, and their subsequent marriage three years later produced three children: Anne "Annie" Clayton (born 1984), Lily McCall (born 1986) and Joseph "Joe" (born 1988). The couple divorced in 1994 after 16 years of marriage. He has a son, Liam (born in 1996), with Bridget Rooney, with whom he had a brief relationship following his divorce.[29]

In 1996, he cohabited with supermodel Elle Macpherson.[30]

On September 25, 2004, Costner married his girlfriend of four years, German-American model and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner,[31] at his ranch in Aspen, Colorado. Costner took his new bride for a canoe ride on a lake following the ceremony. The couple honeymooned in Scotland.[32] Their first child, Cayden Wyatt Costner, was born on May 6, 2007 at a Los Angeles hospital.[33] Their second son, Hayes Logan, was born on February 12, 2009,[34] and their third child, a daughter named Grace Avery, was born on June 2, 2010.[35]

### Sports[edit]

The actor plays regularly in celebrity golf tournaments, including the PGA Tour's annual pro-am at Pebble Beach, California and the BMW Pro-Am held each April in Greenville County, South Carolina. Costner is a member at Birnam Wood Golf Club in California.

Costner is a fan of the London football team Arsenal F.C. While filming Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, he attended a match and has followed the team ever since.[36]

## Political activism[edit]

Since 1992, Costner has financially supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, including Al Gore and Tom Daschle, but also made contributions to the Republican Party's Phil Gramm as late as 1995.[37] He said publicly in 2008 that he has no ambition to run for political office, adding "I've lived quite a colorful life."[38]

In the final days before the 2008 election, Costner campaigned for Barack Obama, visiting various places in Colorado?a state in which he has a home. In his speech, Costner stated the need for young voters to get to the polls, early and with enthusiasm. "We were going to change the world and we haven't," Costner said at a Colorado State University rally. "My generation didn't get it done, and we need you to help us."[39]

## Filmography[edit]

List of film credits
Year | Title | Role | Notes
--- | --- | --- | ---
1979 | Malibu Hot Summer | John Logan | Sizzle Beach, U.S.A. (1986)
1982 | Chasing Dreams | Ed |
Night Shift | Frat Boy No.?1 |
Struggle | Joe, Policeman No.?2 |
Frances | Luther (Man in Alley) | qualified for Screen Actor's Guild card
1983 | Stacy's Knights | Will Bonner |
Table for Five | Newlywed husband |
Big Chill, The The Big Chill | Alex | scenes deleted
Testament | Phil Pitkin |
1984 | Gunrunner, The The Gunrunner | Ted |
1985 | Fandango | Gardner Barnes, Groover |
Silverado | Jake |
American Flyers | Marcus Sommers |
1986 | Shadows Run Black | Jimmy Scott |
1987 | Untouchables, The The Untouchables | Eliot Ness |
No Way Out | Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell |
1988 | Bull Durham | Crash Davis |
1989 | Field of Dreams | Ray Kinsella |
Revenge | Michael 'Jay' Cochran | also executive producer
1990 | Dances with Wolves | Lieutenant John J. Dunbar | Academy Award for Best Picture (shared with Jim Wilson) Academy Award for Best Director Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama (shared with Jim Wilson) Golden Globe Award for Best Director ? Motion Picture Directors Guild of America Award for Best Director Producers Guild of America Award for Motion Picture Producer of the Year (shared with Jim Wilson) Nominated?Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated?Golden Globe Award for Best Actor ? Motion Picture Drama Nominated?BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated?BAFTA Award for Best Picture Nominated ? BAFTA Award for Best Direction Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement - 41st Berlin International Film Festival[40]
1991 | Madonna: Truth or Dare | Himself | documentary (uncredited role)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Robin Hood | also producer Razzie Award for Worst Actor
JFK | Jim Garrison | Nominated?Golden Globe Award for Best Actor ? Motion Picture Drama
1992 | Amazing Stories: Book One | Captain | Episode: "The Mission", archive footage
Oliver Stone: Inside Out | Himself | documentary
The Bodyguard | Frank Farmer | also producer
1993 | Perfect World, A A Perfect World | Robert 'Butch' Haynes |
1994 | Century of Cinema, A A Century of Cinema | Himself | documentary
Wyatt Earp | Wyatt Earp | also producer Razzie Award for Worst Actor Nominated?Razzie Award for Worst Picture
War, The The War | Stephen Simmons |
1995 | Waterworld | Mariner | also producer and uncredited director Nominated?Razzie Award for Worst Actor Nominated?Razzie Award for Worst Picture Nominated?Razzie Award for Worst Director
1996 | Tin Cup | Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy | Nominated?Golden Globe Award for Best Actor ? Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1997 | Sean Connery, An Intimate Portrait | Himself | documentary
Postman, The The Postman | The Postman | also director and producer Razzie Award for Worst Actor Razzie Award for Worst Picture Razzie Award for Worst Director Razzie Award for Worst Original Song Nominated?Razzie Award for Worst Picture of the Decade Nominated?Saturn Award for Best Actor Nominated?Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film
1999 | Message in a Bottle | Garret Blake | also producer Nominated?Razzie Award for Worst Actor
For Love of the Game | Billy Chapel | Nominated?Razzie Award for Worst Actor
Play It to the Bone | Ringside Fan | Cameo
2000 | Thirteen Days | Kenny O'Donnell | also producer
2001 | 3000 Miles to Graceland | Thomas J. Murphy |
Road to Graceland | Murphy (voice) | animated short
2002 | Dragonfly | Joe Darrow |
2003 | Open Range | Charley Waite | also director and producer
2005 | Upside of Anger, The The Upside of Anger | Denny Davies | San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Rumor Has It? | Beau Burroughs |
2006 | Guardian, The The Guardian | Ben Randall |
2007 | Mr. Brooks | Mr. Earl Brooks | also producer
2008 | Swing Vote | Bud Johnson |
2009 | New Daughter, The The New Daughter | John James |
2010 | Company Men, The The Company Men | Jack Dolan |
2012 | Hatfields McCoys | William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield | TV mini-series; also producer Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
2013 | Man of Steel | Jonathan Kent |
Jack Ryan | William Harper |

## References[edit]

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2. ^ Adherents.com's Guide to Movies
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4. ^ Barnes, Harper (November 18, 1990). "Costner's Waltz With The West ... He takes the Indians' side in making his directing debut". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved December 9, 2007.
5. ^ "Pursuing The Dream", Time Magazine Jun. 26, 1989
6. ^ Kempley, Rita (November 9, 1990). "Kevin Costner in the Land of `Wolves'; The Director: Reclaiming Boyhood Dreams". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 9, 2007.
7. ^ "KEVIN COSTNER PLOWS HIS OWN `Field of Dreams'". The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. May 6, 1989. Retrieved December 9, 2007.
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9. ^ The Big Chill at IMDB, trivia
10. ^ Internet Movie Database. "18th Annual Golden Raspeberry Awards". Retrieved 2010-11-02.
11. ^ Kevin Costner Confirmed for Superman! | Superhero Hype
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13. ^ Pennington, Gail (24 September 2012). "'Homeland' wins big; Hamm loses again at Emmys". St. Louis Post-Dispatch via website. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
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16. ^ New Album ? "Turn It On" ? News ? Kevin Costner Modern West
17. ^ New Tour Dates Announced / New Album In the Works ? News ? Kevin Costner Modern West
18. ^ Academy Award winner, actor, director and musician, Kevin Costner and Juno Award winner Canadian musician and humanitarian Tom Cochrane to play at 2012 TELUS World Skins
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20. ^ Zion, IL 2010 Northern League Expansion Team Named the Lake County Fielders." Lake County Baseball.com. May 27, 2009.
21. ^ Costner appeals in casino wrangle, BBC
22. ^ Robbins, Liz (May 19, 2010). "If You Build It ?". The New York Times.
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26. ^ "Kevin Costner". Retrieved 2012-06-18.
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28. ^ Kevin Costner Named Grand Marshal
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40. ^ "Berlinale: 1991 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-03-22.

## External links[edit]

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- JewReview.net interview with Kevin Costner
- Kevin Costner ? Biography, filmography and awards
- Films They Would Rather Forget ? Shadows Run Black
- Review of Kevin's Country Band at www.CountryMusicpride.com

Films by Kevin Costner
As director | Dances with Wolves (1990) The Postman (1997) Open Range (2003)
As producer | The Bodyguard (1992) Rapa Nui (1994) Wyatt Earp (1994) Waterworld (1995) Message in a Bottle (1999) Thirteen Days (2000) Mr. Brooks (2007) The Explorers Guild (2008) Swing Vote (2008) Black and White (2014)

Awards for Kevin Costner
Academy Award for Best Director
Frank Borzage (1927) Lewis Milestone (1928) Frank Lloyd (1929) Lewis Milestone (1930) Norman Taurog (1931) Frank Borzage (1932) Frank Lloyd (1933) Frank Capra (1934) John Ford (1935) Frank Capra (1936) Leo McCarey (1937) Frank Capra (1938) Victor Fleming (1939) John Ford (1940) John Ford (1941) William Wyler (1942) Michael Curtiz (1943) Leo McCarey (1944) Billy Wilder (1945) William Wyler (1946) Elia Kazan (1947) John Huston (1948) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) George Stevens (1951) John Ford (1952) Fred Zinnemann (1953) Elia Kazan (1954) Delbert Mann (1955) George Stevens (1956) David Lean (1957) Vincente Minnelli (1958) William Wyler (1959) Billy Wilder (1960) Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (1961) David Lean (1962) Tony Richardson (1963) George Cukor (1964) Robert Wise (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Mike Nichols (1967) Carol Reed (1968) John Schlesinger (1969) Franklin J. Schaffner (1970) William Friedkin (1971) Bob Fosse (1972) George Roy Hill (1973) Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Miloš Forman (1975) John G. Avildsen (1976) Woody Allen (1977) Michael Cimino (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Robert Redford (1980) Warren Beatty (1981) Richard Attenborough (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Miloš Forman (1984) Sydney Pollack (1985) Oliver Stone (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci (1987) Barry Levinson (1988) Oliver Stone (1989) Kevin Costner (1990) Jonathan Demme (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Robert Zemeckis (1994) Mel Gibson (1995) Anthony Minghella (1996) James Cameron (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) Ron Howard (2001) Roman Polanski (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) Tom Hooper (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Ang Lee (2012)
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
1948-1959 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1948) Robert Rossen (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) George Stevens (1951) John Ford (1952) Fred Zinnemann (1953) Elia Kazan (1954) Delbert Mann (1955) George Stevens (1956) David Lean (1957) Vincente Minnelli (1958) William Wyler (1959)
1960-1979 | Billy Wilder (1960) Robert Wise (1961) David Lean (1962) Tony Richardson (1963) George Cukor (1964) Robert Wise (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Mike Nichols (1967) Anthony Harvey (1968) John Schlesinger (1969) Franklin J. Schaffner (1970) William Friedkin (1971) Francis Ford Coppola (1972) George Roy Hill (1973) Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Miloš Forman (1975) John G. Avildsen (1976) Woody Allen (1977) Michael Cimino (1978) Robert Benton (1979)
1980-1999 | Robert Redford (1980) Warren Beatty (1981) Richard Attenborough (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Miloš Forman (1984) Steven Spielberg (1985) Oliver Stone (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci (1987) Barry Levinson (1988) Oliver Stone (1989) Kevin Costner (1990) Jonathan Demme (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Robert Zemeckis (1994) Ron Howard (1995) Anthony Minghella (1996) James Cameron (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999)
2000-present | Ang Lee (2000) Ron Howard (2001) Rob Marshall (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) Tom Hooper (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Ben Affleck (2012)
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Golden Globe Award for Best Director
Henry King (1943) Leo McCarey (1944) Billy Wilder (1945) Frank Capra (1946) Elia Kazan (1947) John Huston (1948) Robert Rossen (1949) Billy Wilder (1950) László Benedek (1951) Cecil B. DeMille (1952) Fred Zinnemann (1953) Elia Kazan (1954) Joshua Logan (1955) Elia Kazan (1956) David Lean (1957) Vincente Minnelli (1958) William Wyler (1959) Jack Cardiff (1960) Stanley Kramer (1961) David Lean (1962) Elia Kazan (1963) George Cukor (1964) David Lean (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Mike Nichols (1967) Paul Newman (1968) Charles Jarrott (1969) Arthur Hiller (1970) William Friedkin (1971) Francis Ford Coppola (1972) William Friedkin (1973) Roman Polanski (1974) Miloš Forman (1975) Sidney Lumet (1976) Herbert Ross (1977) Michael Cimino (1978) Francis Ford Coppola (1979) Robert Redford (1980) Warren Beatty (1981) Richard Attenborough (1982) Barbra Streisand (1983) Miloš Forman (1984) John Huston (1985) Oliver Stone (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci (1987) Clint Eastwood (1988) Oliver Stone (1989) Kevin Costner (1990) Oliver Stone (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Robert Zemeckis (1994) Mel Gibson (1995) Miloš Forman (1996) James Cameron (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Ang Lee (2000) Robert Altman (2001) Martin Scorsese (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Julian Schnabel (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) James Cameron (2009) David Fincher (2010) Martin Scorsese (2011) Ben Affleck (2012)

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Name | Costner, Kevin
Alternative names | Costner, Kevin Michael
Short description | American film actor and director
Date of birth | January 18, 1955
Place of birth | Lynwood, California, U.S.
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