Robert Benton, Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as a co-producer of “Boney and Clide”, and later recognized the mainstream as a writer-director of “Cramer vs. Cramer” and “places”, died at the age of 92.

Benton’s son, John Benton, said he died at his home of “natural reasons” in Manhattan on Sunday.

During a 40 -year screen career, the native of Texas received six Oscar nominations and won three times: for writing and directing “Cramer vs. Cramer” and to write “Location in Heart”. He was widely appreciated by the actors as vigilant and reliable, and the Oscar winning performance by Dustin Hoffman, Meril Stree and Sally Field. Although severe dyslexia left him unable to read more than a few pages at a time as a child, he wrote and directed the film adaptations of novels by Philip Roth, L. Doctors and Richard Russo.

Benton was an art director for the Eskwire Magazine in the early 1960s, when a love for French new wave films and old gangster stories (and the news that a friend got $ 25,000 for the Doris Day screenplay) and Eskwire Editor David Nammann inspired him to prepare a treatment for the darling of the depression-davidan-eagle.

His project took years to complete as Francois Trufot and Jean-Leuk Godard were among the directors who had rejected Warren Beatty before they agreed to produce and act in the film. Directed by Arthur Penn, “Boney and Clide,” directed by Beatti and Fay Dunve, overcrowd the initial significant resistance to the film’s shocking violence in 1967 and became one of the 1960s culture’s culture touchstone and the beginning of a more open and creative era in Hollywood.

The original story of Benton and Pneumon was even more adventurous: they made the clide barrows bisexual and were involved in a 3-way relationship with Boney and his male gateway driver. Both Beatti and Penn protested, and instead the barrows were depicted as impotent, in which an uncontrolled Robert Town made several other changes to the script. “I do not know honestly who was ‘Autorur’ of ‘Boney and Clide’,” Benton later told Mark Harris, author of “Picture in a revolution”, “Boney and Clide” and a book about four other films from 1967.

Oscar winner Vijay

In the next decade, no Benton’s film contacted the influence of “Boney and Clide”, although he had significant and professional success. In his writing credit, “Superman” and “Whats Up, Dock?” He directed and co-written such well-reviewed works such as the “Bad Company”, with a revisionist Western of Jeff Brides, and “The Late Show”, a Melancholi comedy, for which his script received an Oscar nomination.

His career increased with his adaptation of the Event Kermann novel “Cramer vs. Cramer” about a self-absorbed advertising executive in 1979, who becomes a loving parent for his young son after his wife leaves out, only to ask for his return and custody. Starring Hoffman and Streep, the film was praised as a conceptual, emotional image of changing family roles and expectations and received five Academy Awards, including the best portrait. Hoffman, disappointed with the film business at that time, would cite “Cramer vs. Cramer” and Bainon’s instructions to revive their love for film acting.

Five years later, Benton returned with a more individual film in the Oscar race, “Place in the Heart”, in which he attracted family stories and childhood memories into farms as a mother in Texas for his 1930s sets, who fights to hold her ground after her husband was killed.

Benton told The Associated Press in 1984, “I think when I saw all this together, I wondered what I had a romantic scene,” Benton told The Associated Press in 1984, saying that the film was a tribute to his mother, which was dead shortly before the release of “Cramer vs. Cremmer”.

A lifetime film fan

Benton was born outside Dallas, in Waxi, Texas. He credited his father, telephone company employee Allery Douglas Benton for his early love for films, who would take his family to a photo show instead of asking about homework. Elder Benton grew up in the Dallas region, also shared memories of attending the funeral of Bairo and Parker, a native of Texas.

Robert Benton studied at the University of Texas and Columbia, then served in the US Army from 1954 to 1956. Whereas in Eskwire, Benton helped the magazine’s long -standing suspected achievement awards and dated Gloria Steinum, then on employees of Humor Magazine! She married artist Sallie Rndigs in 1964. They had a son.

Among the hits, Benton often endured long dry mantras. His subsequent films included disappointments like thriller “Billy Bathgate,” The Human Stan “and” Twilight “. He had a lot of success with a Vri-Comedy “No Nose Fool” released in 1994 and Paul Namman starred in his last Oscar-Nammine demonstration, as a small town troubleshooter in New York. Benton, whose film was based on the novel by Russo, was nominated for the best customized screenplay.

“Somebody once asked me when the nomination of the Academy Award was revealed and I was nominated,” What is the great thing about the Academy Awards? ” this is home.