For which Kevin Costner was nominated 13 times for the Golden Raspberry anti-award

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Charismatic bodyguard in the tape of the same name, brave and fair Robin Hood, "pale-faced" lieutenant - the most famous and beloved by the audience roles Kevin Costner, which turned 65 years old in January of this year. Throughout his creative career, the popular actor invariably wore the image of a romantic hero, an example of strength, masculinity, courage and charisma, and not only in films, but also in life. By the way, Kevin, ready to do anything for love, is still called the last romantic of Hollywood.

Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor, producer, film director and musician. Winner of the Golden Globe Awards (1991, 2013) and Emmy Awards (2012). In 1991 he won two Oscars for Best Director and Best Film. Costner is one of six directors in the history of world cinema to receive a gold statuette for their debut film. In addition, he was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Costner's filmography, as an actor, has more than six dozen roles, and more than a dozen works as an actor, director and producer.

A strong, strong-willed and at the same time romantic personality - this is the role of Kevin Costner, who forever won the hearts of the audience, despite the fact that his career path was strewn not only with laurels, but also with thorns.

Turning the pages of a biography

Kevin Michael Costner was born in January 1955 in Compton, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, California. He is the youngest of three sons in the family. Father - William Costner was an electrical engineer, and my mother served in the Department of Health. The ideal man worthy of imitation for the boys was their father. Especially for Kevin, who has been obsessed with baseball since childhood. Costner Sr., a former baseball player, referee baseball games in his spare time. And as a boy, Kevin dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player.

But when the time came, at the insistence of his parents, he had to enter the University of California for a course in marketing and finance in Fullerton. Having chosen the Faculty of Economics, the young man became one of the best students in his course. Everyone predicted a brilliant career as a financier for him, but during his first year, he unexpectedly became interested in theater and entered the theater studio of the university. After university lectures, he rushed to acting lessons, and at night rehearsed roles, trying to master a new profession for himself.

It should be noted that this hobby did not in any way affect the academic performance of the future actor - he graduated from the university with honors, and then even got a job as a marketer. Although in reality he was little attracted by the field of marketing, Kevin was unrestrainedly attracted by his horizons as an actor. However, the road to Hollywood for the future screen star turned out to be rather long and winding.

Fateful meeting

It was at that time that significant changes took place in the fate of Kevin. Almost immediately after graduating from university in 1978, Kevin married Cindy Silva, who was a childhood friend. And during his honeymoon trip to Mexico, he accidentally found himself in the next seat of the plane with Richard Burton himself. Thus, a seven-time Oscar nominee, twice married to Elizabeth Taylor. The well-trained eye of the producer immediately saw creativity in the guy, and throughout the flight he and Kevin discussed his acting future if he decided on a desperate step and moved to Hollywood.

This chance meeting served as an impetus for active action. Kevin quit his job and with a young wife, who supported her husband in everything, moved to Los Angeles. These are hard times. At first, in order to support his family, as well as pay for housing and acting courses, he somehow interrupted himself as extras, and in his free time he earned a living with hard physical labor - he drove a truck, even went to sea on a fishing boat. Sometimes he worked as a tourist guide. But at the same time, he did not abandon his attempts to break into the film industry. Cindy, who supports her husband in all his endeavors, also took a higher-paying job to help her husband make ends meet.

Actor's career

Costner got his first role in 1981 in the erotic comedy "Wild Beach" about the entertainment of "hot girls". This tape was little known at that time. However, a few years later, as Costner's popularity took off, Troma, a low-standard film company, re-released the film by buying the rights to the screening, building an advertising campaign around Kevin's name and trying to capitalize on his popularity. The actor himself preferred not to speak and not remember his debut role.

However, the next role - in the western "Silverado", directed by Lawrence Kasdan, brought the actor to a completely different level. His play was seen by Brian De Palma, who was looking for a "new face" at that time for the film adaptation of the memoirs of federal agent Eliot Ness, played by Costner in the blockbuster "The Untouchables" (1987). Kevin's partners are Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia and Sean Connery. The film, which surpassed all expectations, was a huge success with the viewer, collected many prizes, including an Oscar, and Kevin immediately became famous and stood on a par with the most popular actors in Hollywood.

For more information about the acclaimed blockbuster, read: 11 curious facts about the Untouchables crime drama.

Two subsequent works, in the films Darkham Bull (1988) and The Field of His Dreams (1989), bring the actor even greater triumph and fame. By the way, the box office success of these films allowed Kevin to raise the necessary amount of money for his debut as a director.

Director's career

A triumphant success for Costner was his directorial debut in the movie Dancing with Wolves, released in 1990, about the events of the American Civil War. Moreover, the main role of the "pale-faced" lieutenant, for whom the Indian tribe became a family, in the historical film Kevin performed independently.

For Costner, as a director, it was very important to create his film at the highest level. The Lakota language was taught to the performers by Professor Doris Charge, and when the film crew went out of budget, Kevin Costner shelled out a huge amount out of his pocket. Subsequently, his investment paid off: the film at the box office earned more than $ 180 million.

The film, which unexpectedly became one of the hits of the year, received warm reviews from viewers and critics, as well as many awards, including 12 Oscar nominations and 7 gold statuettes, including best film and best director. In addition to awards and applause, the picture also brought Kevin $ 50 million, world fame and the status of one of the best Hollywood actors.

And this despite the fact that Kevin broke almost all the unwritten rules that a debutant director must follow: do not shoot on location, do not work with children and animals, do not star in the lead role, and do not get too carried away with timing. the most interesting, the Lakota Indian tribe, which participated in the filming, invited Kevin as an elder, and the gratitude of the indigenous population of America was worth a lot.

Contradictory opinions and the Golden Raspberry Award

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Then something strange began to happen with Costner's career as a director. So, his film "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" (1991) was received ambiguously. Millions of fans fell in love with Costner for this role, and professional critics considered it a failure. Kevin Costner was awarded the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor. Nevertheless, the film was a great commercial success at the box office.

"Bodyguard" (1992)

The film "The Bodyguard" (1992), which glorified Whitney Houston and made millions of women dream of the same reliable and silent lover as Kevin Costner's character looked on the screen, was met in a similar way. Once again, the lukewarm reviews from critics about his work were a fly in the ointment. But Costner was not too worried about the opinion of professionals - the main thing he always considered the opinion of the audience, who without any conventions accepted and fell in love with "Bodyguard".

The backstory of the creation of this film is quite remarkable, after the release of which Kevin topped the list of sex symbols. Costner, as the producer of the drama "The Bodyguard," almost two years persuaded Whitney Houston to accept the lead role. The singer, referring to her inexperience, at first refused, but in the end she agreed, and then deep in her soul she more than once regretted her decision. During the filming, she suffered a miscarriage due to nervousness, and after the premiere of Whitney's picture, however, like Kevin himself, she received the Golden Raspberry for the worst game - critics called the picture mediocre.

By the way, Kevin had to become a nominee for this award thirteen times during his creative career, and six times - its owner.

However, neither the attacks of critics from the cinema, nor the negative published in the press could belittle the enormous popularity of this luxurious love-detective melodrama, which is still considered one of the best in the history of cinema at the end of the last century.

The film shot by Kevin immediately became a box office super hit in 1992, and the song "I will always love you", performed by Whitney Houston, occupied the top of the world charts for a long time. The full version of the soundtrack to the film for several years held the status of the best-selling cinema in the history of cinema.

For more on this popular drama, read Behind the Scenes of the 1990s Cult Film The Bodyguard: The Other Side of Whitney Houston's Glory.

"Water World" (1995)

In 1995 Costner returned to directing and the fantastic picture Water World was released. The story of the dire consequences of global warming, starring Kevin, had a fabulous $ 175 million budget at the time. This work became one of the main paradoxes in American cinema: having earned a considerable sum at the box office, with an equally huge budget, "Water World" received low ratings from critics and was nominated for another anti-award "Golden Raspberry" for the worst film and the worst male role.

Black line

In the 90s, Costner shot several more films, which negatively affected his reputation. In addition, in the personal life of our hero, a black streak went. Unexpectedly for everyone, he divorced his wife in 1994 and became a real ladies' man, changing women like gloves. Cindy then said that she did not recognize in this man the former Kevin, with whom they lived together for almost 17 years, raising three children.

Costner's creative search also came to a standstill - the directors no longer saw in him an actor's potential, which was confirmed by the failure at the box office of the films with the actor's participation released at that time: "Wyatt Earp" (1994) and "War" (1994). The $ 80 million film The Postman (1997), directed by Kevin Costner at the box office, failed miserably, grossing only 17. The hero, once erected on a pedestal, was overthrown.

Life with a clean slate

However, everything passes, and that too has passed. In 2004, the 49-year-old actor married Christine Baumgartner, who is almost 20 years his junior. With a beautiful blonde, Kevin met on the golf course, and a chance meeting quickly grew into mutual love.

The wedding was played on a ranch in Colorado, in the presence of three hundred invited guests, including Bruce Willis, Oliver Stone and Tim Allen.

Kevin Costner to this day continues to act in his usual romantic role and always finds time for his seven children: three from his first marriage to Cindy - Annie (1984), Lily (1986) and Joe (1988), illegitimate son from journalist Bridget Rooney - Liam (1996) and three from Christine Baumgartner - Kaiden, Hayes and Grace. He loves all of them very much and does not refuse anyone. Kevin can easily gather all his offspring together and go for a walk with them.

Continuing the theme of Hollywood fathers with many children, read: 8 famous actors who became dads with many children.

Kevin Costner now

In 2017, the actor starred in the drama The Big Game. Since 2018, Kevin has been taking part in the filming of the Yellowstone multi-part project. At the beginning of this year, the star turned 65. He regrets nothing at all and confesses on camera:

And when asked about his mistakes and failures in his creative career, Kevin answers:

P. S

Few people know Kevin Costner as an excellent musician who sings and plays rock and roll on the guitar.

Curiously, the main "bodyguard" of our planet acquired his first vocal skills as a child, performing in a church choir. Later he played in groups, even recorded unofficial albums, composed lyrics. In recent years, Kevin Costner has created his own country-rock band "Modern West", with which he records his own compositions, tours Europe, USA, Canada, playing traditional American music.

Continuing the theme of actors with the gift of being excellent musicians, read: As "the best singer among actors" he achieved success among women, on stage and in the ring: Evgeny Dyatlov.