Warren Beatty was nominated for an Oscar as Best Actor, Director, Screenplay, and he produced the film nominated as Best film twice - once in 1978, and again in 1981. For which films?

Achieving Oscar nominations for acting, directing, writing, and producing the same film is one of Hollywood's rarest accomplishments. Warren Beatty first managed this remarkable feat in 1978 for the charming fantasy-comedy *Heaven Can Wait*. In the film, a remake of 1941's *Here Comes Mr. Jordan*, Beatty starred as a football quarterback mistakenly taken to the afterlife. He also served as producer, co-wrote the screenplay with Elaine May, and co-directed alongside Buck Henry, earning nominations in all four major categories.

Incredibly, Beatty managed the same feat only three years later with a vastly different project. For the 1981 ambitious historical epic *Reds*, he once again received nominations for Best Actor, Best Picture (as producer), Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay (with Trevor Griffiths). The film chronicled the life of journalist John Reed during the Russian Revolution. This time, his monumental effort paid off with a win, as he took home the Academy Award for Best Director.

This accomplishment places Beatty in incredibly rare company. Before him, only Orson Welles had managed to secure nominations in all four of these categories for a single film (*Citizen Kane* in 1941). To this day, Warren Beatty remains the only person in Oscar history to have done it twice.