AWARDS & HONORS

Bonnie and Clyde was nominated for 10 Oscars®: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Warren Beatty), Best Actress (Faye Dunaway), Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman and Michael J. Pollard), Best Supporting Actress (Estelle Parsons), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Costuming. Only Parsons and cinematographer Burnett Guffey won.

David Newman and Robert Benton won Best Screenplay awards from the Writers Guild, the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.

Gene Hackman was named Best Supporting Actor by the National Society of Film Critics.

Faye Dunaway and Michael J. Pollard won awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) as Most Promising Newcomers to Leading Film Roles.

In 1992, Bonnie and Clyde was voted onto the National Film Registry, earning recognition as a national treasure.

The Critics Corner: BONNIE AND CLYDE

Despite the misgivings of Warner Bros.' top executives and a disastrous initial release, Bonnie and Clyde became one of the top-grossing films of its year. With $23 million in rentals, it became the studio's second highest-grossing film to that time, right behind My Fair Lady (1964).

"...a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cutups in Thoroughly Modern Millie [1967]." - Bosley Crowther, The New York Times "...a squalid shoot-'em-up for the moron trade." - Joe Morgenstern's first review in Newsweek. "I am sorry to say I consider that review grossly unfair and regrettably inaccurate. I am sorrier to say I wrote it." - Morgenstern's retraction, a week later, also in Newsweek. "How do you make a good movie in this country and not get jumped on? Bonnie and Clyde is the most exciting American movie since The Manchurian Candidate [1962]. The audience is alive to it." - Pauline Kael, The New Yorker.

"A film from which we shall date reputations and innovations in the American cinema." - Alexander Walker, Evening Standard.

"It works as comedy, as tragedy, as entertainment, as a meditation on the place of guns and violence in American society" - Roger Ebert, The Great Movies.

by Frank Miller