He is tied with Robert Altman and Alfred Hitchcock for the most Academy Award nominations for best director without a single win.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

Sidney Altman ( born May 7, 1939 ) is a Canadian American molecular biologist, who is currently the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University.

Robert Altman directed the film, which is a fictional representation of behind-the-scenes activities on a long-running radio show that has unexpectedly been canceled.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman.

The screenplay is by Altman and Brian McKay from the novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton.

Nashville is a 1975 American musical black comedy film directed by Robert Altman.

Altman himself plays Bob an unseen producer who in the beginning of the film is producing Haven Hamilton's song 200 Years.

The community is also home to the CUNY Graduate Center which share the landmark former B. Altman Building with the New York Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library or SIBL and Oxford University Press.

Jane's best friend and frequent collaborator, Aaron Altman ( Brooks ), is a gifted writer and reporter ambitious for on-camera exposure, who is secretly in love with Jane, and embittered by her rejection of him.

Durang has denounced the Robert Altman 1987 film adaptation of Beyond Therapy, calling it " horrific " and accusing Altman of totally rewriting the script " so that all psychology is thrown out the window, and the characters dash around acting crazy but with literally no behavioral logic underneath.

One example is Robert Altman, whose Gosford Park copies many of Rules of the Games plot elements ( a story of aristocrats in the country, aristocrats and their servants, murder ) and pays homage with a direct reference to the infamous hunting scene, or " la chasse ", in which no one moves but the help.

At about the same time, Sidney Altman, a professor at Yale University, was studying the way tRNA molecules are processed in the cell when he and his colleagues isolated an enzyme called RNase-P, which is responsible for conversion of a precursor tRNA into the active tRNA.

" It is tempting to argue that Vidal said more to subvert the dominant rules of sex and gender in Myra than is contained in a shelf of queer theory treatises ," wrote Dennis Altman.

* 1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements ; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.

Severity of manic symptoms can be measured by rating scales such as self-reported Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale and clinician-based Young Mania Rating Scale.

He was also joined for some of the storyline by Nick Cotton ( played by John Altman ), who was imprisoned for a different offence.

In the 2006 season, Spacey suffered a major setback with a production of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues, directed by Robert Altman.

* Kansas City ( film ), a 1996 film by Robert Altman

Critic Billy Altman, whose work has appeared in many publications including Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times, wrote the following for Amazon. com: " One of rock's most overlooked masterpieces, this third album by the L. A. folk-rock outfit led by inscrutable singer-songwriter Arthur Lee sounds as fresh and innovative today as it did upon its original release in 1968.

* Nashville ( film ), 1975 American musical film directed by Robert Altman

* Foreign rights to the 1975 Robert Altman film Nashville, are currently owned by ABC through Walt Disney Pictures but Paramount still owns North American rights ( both Paramount and ABC share copyrights ).

*" The RNA world " ( 2001 ) by Sidney Altman, on the Nobel prize website

Shortly after, Gardner, who at the time was a student at Atlantic Christian College, traveled to New York to be interviewed at MGM's New York office by Al Altman, head of MGM's New York talent department.

In February 2012, an early Calvin film directed by Altman, Modern Football ( 1951 ), was found by filmmaker Gary Huggins.

Altman directed some 65 industrial films and documentaries before being hired by a local businessman in 1956 to write and direct a feature film in Kansas City on juvenile delinquency.

Altman directed Short Cuts ( 1993 ), an ambitious adaptation of several short stories by Raymond Carver, which portrayed the lives of various citizens of Los Angeles over the course of several days.

* Sidney Altman Nobel Lecture: Enzymatic Cleavage of RNA by RNA

The radio program inspired a 2006 film of the same name, written by Keillor, directed by Robert Altman and featuring Keillor, Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline, John C. Reilly, and Woody Harrelson.

In the 1960s, Altman lived for nine years with his second wife in Mandeville Canyon in Brentwood, California.

In 1985, Altman made a deathbed confession to his wife, Marcelle Hall, that he had stolen the violin.

* 1960s: Joseph Altman and Gopal Das present scientific evidence of adult neurogenesis, ongoing stem cell activity in the brain ; like André Gernez, their reports contradict Cajal's " no new neurons " dogma and are largely ignored.

Altman's ancestry was German, English and Irish ; his paternal grandfather, Frank Altman, Sr., anglicized the spelling of the family name from " Altmann " to " Altman ".

In 1969 Altman was offered the script for MASH, an adaptation of a little-known Korean War-era novel satirizing life in the armed services ; more than a dozen other filmmakers had passed on it.

Now recognized as a major talent, Altman had critical breakthroughs with McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), known for its gritty portrayal of the American frontier ; The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ), a remake of a Raymond Chandler novel ; Thieves Like Us ( 1974 ), and Nashville ( 1975 ).

Altman favored stories expressing the interrelationships among several characters ; he stated that he was more interested in character motivation than in intricate plots.

It won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ( Julian Fellowes ) plus six more nominations, including two for Altman, as Best Director and Best Picture.

For much of the cast, Altman turned to the local Kansas City actors with whom he had worked in community theater and in industrial films, including James Lantz, Leonard Belove, and Kermit Echols, as well as his then-wife Lotus Corelli and his eight-year-old daughter Christine.

* Prince Tuesday ( voiced by Adair Roth ( pre ' 79 series ), Fred Michael ( 1979 – 1980 ), Charles Altman ( 1981 – 1986 ), briefly Carole Switala, Lenny Meledandri ( 1987 – 2001 )) — The young son of King Friday and Queen Sara.

* Mr. Probert ( Derek Jacobi ), valet to Sir William McCordle ( Michael Gambon ), and Robert Parks ( Clive Owen ), valet to Lord Stockbridge ( Charles Dance ), in the 2001 film Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman.

In 1983, Rabe adapted his play for a feature film directed by Robert Altman and produced by Robert Michael Geisler and John Roberdeau ( The Thin Red Line ).

He puts the landlord of The Queen Victoria public house, Eddie Royle ( Michael Melia ), in hospital after he makes a pass at Sharon ; he later becomes prime suspect for Royle's murder in 1991, but Nick Cotton ( John Altman ) eventually owns up to the crime.