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Film director Robert Altman dies
Robert Altman, the acclaimed director of MASH, Nashville, Gosford Park and The Player, has died at the age of 81, his production company has announced. The Hollywood maverick, renowned for his improvisational style, died in a Los Angeles hospital on Monday. He was a five-time Academy Awards best director nominee, but never won the movie industry’s top honour. However, he was given an honorary Oscar this year for “a career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form”. One of Altman’s final projects was a stage production of Arthur Miller’s play Resurrection Blues at London’s Old Vic theatre. Actor Kevin Spacey, director of the Old Vic, said he had been “privileged” to work with him. “Robert Altman was a truly unique director and an extraordinary man,» he said.“We are all saddened by this news and send our condolences to his wife Kathryn and family.” Actor and author Julian Fellowes, who wrote the screenplay for Altman’s 2001 film Gosford Park, called him “an extraordinary character”.
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