CLINT EASTWOOD’S T O P 1 0 MOVIES

“Gran Torino” (2008): Directing himself as an actor here, as he’s done many times, Eastwood is superb as a crusty war veteran forced to confront his bigotry.

“Million Dollar Baby” (2004): Everything Eastwood does on this Oscarwinning drama is so superb, it’s easy to overlook that his performance as a boxing trainer is as sterling as his directing.

“Mystic River” (2003): Eastwood directed Sean Penn and Tim Robbins to Academy Awards in this intense drama of grown friends from childhood.

“The Bridges of Madison County” (1995):

Eastwood shows wonderful tenderness – and stunning scene composition, as this story requires – as director and star (with Meryl Streep) of Robert James Waller’s story of middleaged romance.

“In the Line of Fire” (1993):

Playing a hero with flaws became Eastwood, seen as a veteran Secret Service man trying to prevent a JFK-assassination repeat.

“Unforgiven” (1992): Eastwood redefined the screen Western in this grim Oscar darling.

“The Outlaw Josey Wales” (1976): Among Eastwood’s finest Westerns post-“A Fistful of Dollars,” this drama (which he also directed) casts him as a farmer who targets his family’s murderers.

“Dirty Harry” (1971): No list of Eastwood’s best is complete without his initial, Don Siegel-directed turn as the maverick San Francisco police detective tracking a serial killer his own way.

“The Beguiled” (1971): Also working with Siegel here, in a melodrama regarded in Europe as a classic, Eastwood took a gamble as an injured Civil War soldier trapped in a girls school.

“A Fistful of Dollars” (1964): An international superstar was born with Eastwood’s original portrayal of the Man With No Name, which the then-“Rawhide” television actor did thinking it would just be fun to travel to Spain.