The American film director Peter Bogdanovich, creator of the Oscar-winning classic ‘The Last Picture Show’ (1971), has died at the age of 82, according to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday.
His daughter, Antonia Bogdanovich, told the media that the filmmaker died this Thursday shortly after midnight of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles.
Bogdanovich, born in 1939 in New York (USA), was one of the directors most important of New Hollywood from the 70’s and leaves a legacy with about twenty recognized titles, including “What’s Up, Doc?” (“What’s the matter with me, Doctor?”), 1972, and “Paper Moon” (1973).
A fan of cinema since he was a child, he began his artistic career at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where he prepared an anthology of films about Orson Welles and Howard Hawks and at the same time was forging himself as a prestigious film critic.
In 1964 he moved to Los Angeles and made his foray into the seventh art as an assistant director to Robert Corman, who would produce his first feature film, “Targets,” which was followed by documentaries about filmmakers Howard Hawkes. and John Ford.
In 1971 she began filming ‘The Last Picture Show’, a black and white drama set in Texas that won the Oscars for Best Supporting Actor (Ben Johnson) and Best Supporting Actress (Cloris Leachman), as well as six nominations. .
This was the prelude to a prolific career in which titles such as ‘At Long Last Love’ (1975), ‘Cohen and Tate’ (1984) and ‘The Thing Called Love’ (1993) appeared. until 2014, when she released her latest film, ‘She´s Funny that Way’.
The laureate director was recognized several times in Spain, emphasizing the Silver shell of the San Sebastian Festival and the jury’s award in 1973 for ‘Paper Moon’ and ‘Noises Off’ (1992), which in 1994 earned him the Peñíscola Festival Audience Award.
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