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Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. was born in San Francisco, California. He is an American actor, film director, producer, pianist, composer, businessman and politician. For his work in the Western film Unforgiven and the sports drama Million Dollar Baby, Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor. The war drama biopic American Sniper set box office records for the biggest January release ever and was also the biggest opening ever for an Eastwood film. He has been awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he became a recipient of the Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2007 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur medal. Since 1967, Eastwood has run his own production company, Malpaso, which has produced all except four of his American films. From 1986 to 1988, he served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.