Warren Beatty early misgivings by studio head Jack Warner, who put up the production money. Before filming began, Warner had asked an associate, "What does Warren Beatty think he's doing? How did he ever get us into this thing? This gangster stuff went out with Cagney." The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, and seven Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. After "Bonnie and Clyde", Beatty acted with Elizabeth Taylor in "The Only Game in Town" (1970), directed by George Stevens; "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), directed by Robert Altman; "Dollars" (1971),
Faye Dunaway convenient for her. That same year, she returned to the screen in Michael Winner's period melodrama "The Wicked Lady", in which she played an 18th-century highway robber. The film proved to be a critical and commercial failure. "Though I loved making "The Wicked Lady", in the end it just didn't have the juice it needed to be a hit. It seemed to never quite decide whether to be a farce or a drama, and so it failed by being neither." In 1984, Dunaway played the lead villain in the superhero movie "Supergirl". She felt that "the film was really just