Robert Benton, the Academy Award-winning director of such classic films as Kramer vs. Kramer, and Places in the Heart, has ...

Robert Benton, an Oscar-winning screenwriter and director has died at 92. Benton helped redefine American cinema with "Bonnie ...

If you ask the average person to name the first Frank Capra movie that comes to mind when they hear his name (assuming they know who the hell he is, of course), they're probably going to say It ...

Hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett were quick to congratulate Leitch, who began as a stunt man himself on films ...

FILE - Actor Nicole Kidman, left, and director Robert Benton ... was nominated for best adapted screenplay. “Somebody asked me once when the Academy Award nominations came out and I’d been ...

Benton won the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The acclaimed filmmaker subsequently won a third Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for ...

and no women were nominated for Best Director, prompting a social media outcry. In response, the Academy created a set of "inclusion standards" for Best Picture nominees, to be phased in over four ...