Robert Altman is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

He is known for such films as the war comedy M*A*S*H (1970), the revisionist western McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the neo-noir The Long Goodbye (1973), the dramedy film California Split (1974), the satirical musical film Nashville (1975), the drama 3 Women (1977), the comedy A Wedding (1978), the musical comedy Popeye (1980), the drama Secret Honor (1984), the black comedy The Player (1992), the ensemble film Short Cuts (1993), the British murder mystery film Gosford Park (2001), and A Prairie Home Companion (2006).

Altman received various awards and nominations including seven Academy Award nominations winning the Honorary Oscar in 2006. He received seven British Academy Film Award nominations winning twice for The Player (1992), and Gosford Park (2001). He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Tanner '88 (1988). He also received five Golden Globe Award nominations winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Gosford Park. He also received various awards from film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme d'Or for M*A*S*H and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director for The Player. He has also received the Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear, and the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion. In 1994, he received the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award.

Major associations

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1970	Best Director	MASH	Nominated	^[1]
1975	Best Picture	Nashville	Nominated
1975	Best Director	Nashville	Nominated
1992		The Player	Nominated
1993		Short Cuts	Nominated
2001		Gosford Park	Nominated
2001	Best Picture	Gosford Park	Nominated
2006	Academy Honorary Award	—	Won

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1970	Best Direction	MASH	Nominated	^[1]
1978	Best Direction	A Wedding	Nominated
1978	Best Screenplay	A Wedding	Nominated
1992	Best Film	The Player	Nominated
1992	Best Direction	The Player	Won
2001	Best British Film	Gosford Park	Won
2001	Best Director	Gosford Park	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1989	Directing in a Drama Series	Tanner '88: The Boiler Room	Won	^[1]
1993	Directing in a Variety or Music Program	Great Performances: Black and Blue	Nominated	^[1]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1970	Best Director	MASH	Nominated	^[1]
1975		Nashville	Nominated
1992		The Player	Nominated
1993	Best Screenplay	Short Cuts	Nominated
2001	Best Director	Gosford Park	Won

Festival awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1970	Palme d'Or	MASH	Won	^[1]
1972		Images	Nominated
1977		3 Women	Nominated
1986		Fool for Love	Nominated
1987		Aria	Nominated
1992		The Player	Nominated
1992	Best Director	The Player	Won
1996	Palme d'Or	Kansas City	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1976	Golden Bear	Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson	Won	^[1]
1985	FIPRESCI Prize	Secret Honor	Won	^[1]
1999	Golden Bear	Cookie's Fortune	Nominated	^[2]
1999	Prize of the Guild	Cookie's Fortune	Won	^[1]
2002	Honorary Golden Bear	—	Won
2006	Golden Bear	A Prairie Home Companion	Nominated
2006	Reader Jury	A Prairie Home Companion	Won

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1983	Golden Lion	Streamers	Nominated	^[1]
1993	Golden Lion	Short Cuts	Won
	FIPRESCI Prize		Won
	Pasinetti Award		Won
1996	Career Golden Lion	—	Won
2000	Golden Lion	Dr T and the Women	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1993	Best Director	Short Cuts	Won	^[1]
1993	Best Screenplay	Short Cuts	Won
1994	Best Feature	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	Nominated
1999	Best Feature	Cookie's Fortune	Nominated
2006	Best Director	A Prairie Home Companion	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1971	Outstanding Directorial in Motion Pictures	MASH	Nominated	^[1]
1976		Nashville	Nominated
1993		The Player	Nominated
1994	Lifetime Achievement Award	—	Won
2005	Outstanding Directing - Miniseries or Movie	Tanner on Tanner	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1971	Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Nominated	^[1]
1972	Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen	Images	Nominated
1978	Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen	A Wedding	Nominated

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^ "Berlinale: 1999 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved January 29, 2012.

v t e Films directed by Robert Altman
Feature films	The Delinquents (1957) Countdown (1967) That Cold Day in the Park (1969) MASH* (1970) Brewster McCloud (1970) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Images (1972) The Long Goodbye (1973) Thieves Like Us (1974) California Split (1974) Nashville (1975) Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) 3 Women (1977) A Wedding (1978) Quintet (1979) A Perfect Couple (1979) HealtH (1980) Popeye (1980) Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) Streamers (1983) Secret Honor (1984) Fool for Love (1985) Beyond Therapy (1987) O.C. and Stiggs (1987) Vincent & Theo (1990) The Player (1992) Short Cuts (1993) Prêt-à-Porter (1994) Kansas City (1996) The Gingerbread Man (1998) Cookie's Fortune (1999) Dr. T & the Women (2000) Gosford Park (2001) The Company (2003) A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Short films	Les Boréades (1987)
Documentaries	The James Dean Story (1957)
Television	Nightmare in Chicago (1964) The Laundromat (1985) Tanner '88 (1988) Tanner on Tanner (2004)