News: Clint Eastwood

Nominated for Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for this week’s Letters From Iwo Jima (it’s also up for best screenplay and best sound editing, with the American half of Eastwood’s Iwo Jima double bill, Flags of Our Fathers, up for sound editing and sound mixing), it’s Eastwood’s fourth time being nominated for Best Director – all of them coming after he hit the age of 60. Not bad going for an old timer.

Next up for 76-year-old Eastwood is, erm… a well-deserved rest, by the look of things. Having just done two highly-praised films back-to-back, he’ll be taking a bit of time off to work on his golf. He has, however, lent his distinctive voice to the computer game version of his cult 1971 film Dirty Harry, set to be released for the Xbox360 and PS3 sometime later this year, and he has supposedly bought the film rights to the authorised biography of Man on the Moon Neil Armstrong, which could be a nice follow-up to 200’s Space Cowboys.