Acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich dies at 82

Hollywood legend and Academy Award-nominated director Peter Bogdanovich has died at the age of 82, according to multiple media reports Thursday.

As The Hollywood Reporter noted in its coverage, Bogdanovich was perhaps best known for writing and directing 1971’s The Last Picture Show, considered a seminal coming-of-age film from that era, boasting an impressive ensemble cast that included Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman, with the latter two winnning Academy Awards for their supporting performances. The film, which was a financial and critical success, has since been inducted into the Library of Congress in 1998 as part of their National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”

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