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Pioneering movie-maker Robert Altman Has Died

The legendary director was 81

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Robert Altman has passed away, aged 81, his production company has announced this afternoon.

The acclaimed director born in 1925 has been nominated for 5 Academy Awards in his lifetime.

This year Altman was awarded an honourary Oscar for “a career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form”.

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In his acceptance speech, he said he was grateful for the luck he’d had bestowed upon his movies, saying, “No other film-maker has gotten a better shake than I have. I’m very fortunate in my career.”

He added, “I’ve never had to direct a film I didn’t choose or develop. My love for film-making has given me an entree to the world and to the human condition.”

His films have tended to be arty, dark and sublime, and include The Player, Pret A Porter, Short Cuts, period mystery Gosford Park.

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His latest movie A Prairie Home Companion, starring Woody Harrelson and Tommy Lee Jones, premiered at the South By Southwest festival earlier this year.

Altman’s cause of death has not been revealed.

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