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Kevin Costner

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Kevin Costner is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and musician born in Lynwood, California, in 1955, with a career spanning more than five decades. His breakthrough acting roles came in The Untouchables, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and The Bodyguard. Directing and starring in the Western Dances With Wolves in 1990, he won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, and he later directed Open Range and Horizon: An American Saga. From 2018 to 2024 he starred as rancher John Dutton in the television series Yellowstone, winning a Golden Globe Award for the role in 2023. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Classification
Award
Academy Award for Best Director 1
Award
Directors Guild of America Award 1
Award
Academy Award for Best Picture 1
Award
César Honorary Award 1
Birth Year
1955 1
Defining Contribution
Directed and starred in the western epic Dances With Wolves (1990) 1
Kevin Costner
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Dances with Wolves

Kevin Costner
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Associated With

Warner Bros., Organizations

Directed and starred in The Postman (1997), released by Warner Bros.

Long-Form Articles

Kevin Costner and the director's gamble, Articles

Works Created

Dances with Wolves, Landmark Works
Source Dances With Wolves (Wikipedia)
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Nationality

United States

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1. Kevin Costner (Wikipedia)
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    directed and starred in the western epic Dances With Wolves (1990)
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  • Wikipedia category (academy-award-for-best-picture), checked 2026-09-27
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  • Wikipedia category (cesar-honorary-award), checked 2026-09-27
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  • Wikipedia category (directors-guild-of-america-award), checked 2026-09-27
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  • Article lead sentence
    Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, and musician.
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Dances With Wolves (Wikipedia)
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Kevin Costner
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