Throughout his almost 70-year career, Clint Eastwood has tried all types of genres as an actor and director. However, the western will always be associated with him after participating in acclaimed films such as A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone. Don’t forget Unforgiven, directed by him, which won him four Oscars in 1994. However, Eastwood revealed in 2017 that when fans congratulate him on the street, it is usually for Outlaw.
The film, directed by and starring Eastwood, was released in 1976 and follows a farmer who seeks revenge for the murders of his wife and son. “When people stop me on the street, it’s usually about him,” she told Empire.
As he added:
They seem to like it. I rented it recently and it’s still holding up.
Unlike other more classic westerns, The Outlaw plays in a somewhat different league. “The spaghetti westerns had a very elegant feel; they caught my attention and helped me get started, but The Outlaw was the first script I really liked,” he concluded. The film’s script was written by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman.
The Outlaw has a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score of 91%. Critics highlighted that the film is the first of the filmmaker’s “great revisionist works of the genre.” The film earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score. It is not the western that won Eastwood the most awards, since that was Unforgiven; it added nine nominations and won four statuettes, including Best Picture and Best Director.
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