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2021 marked the 50th year of Clint Eastwood's partnership with Warner Brothers, which began in 1971 with the release of Dirty Harry. Over the course of his remarkable career, Eastwood, a 4-time Academy Award winner, has received a number of lifetime and career achievement honours, including the Motion Picture Academy's Irving Thalberg Memorial Award and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Cecil B. DeMille Award.
He has also garnered tributes from the Directors Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, the American Film Institute, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the French Film Society, the National Board of Review, and the Henry Mancini Institute. He is also the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, the California Governor's Award for the Arts, and France's Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur.
Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood stars in and directs this fast-paced Western about the fight for vengeance by a Missouri farmer whose family is murdered in the last days of the United States' Civil War.
The film is directed by Clint Eastwood. The screenplay is by Phil Kaufman and Sonia Chernus and is based on the novel "Gone to Texas" by Forrest Carter. The film is produced by Robert Daley. b}The Outlaw Josey Wales stars Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, and John Vernon.
The Outlaw Josey Wales was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score. In 1996, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is released on 4K UHD for the first time on 4K Ultra HD and SteelBook 28th April 2025 from Warner Home Video.
Special Features
- Commentary by Richard Schickel
- An Outlaw and an Antihero
- The Cinematography of an Outlaw: Crafting Josey Wales
- Clint Eastwood's West
- Eastwood in Action
- Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales
- Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy - Reinventing Westerns