Bonnie and Clyde (film) Clyde Barrow firing a Thompson submachine gun as he escapes from the Red Crown Tourist Court. Bonnie and Clyde (film) Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The film features Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons, with Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder (first film role), Evans Evans, and Mabel Cavitt in supporting roles. The screenplay was written by David Newman and Robert Benton. Robert Towne and Beatty provided uncredited contributions to the script; Beatty
Moonlight (2016 film) and Best Adapted Screenplay. At the ceremony, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read "La La Land" as the winner of Best Picture. Beatty later stated that he had mistakenly been given the duplicate Best Actress envelope, for which Emma Stone had won for her role in "La La Land" several minutes prior. When the mistake was realized, "La La Land" producer Jordan Horowitz came forward to announce "Moonlight" as the correct winner. Because the film's screenplay was based on a play that had not previously been produced or published, different awards have had different rules about whether it qualified