Film director Robert Altman died Monday at the age of 81. Altman was the man behind MASH, Gosford Park and, most recently, A Prairie Home Companion.

Garrison Keillor, host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion, talks about film director Robert Altman who died Tuesday at the age of 81. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

LOS ANGELES – Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player" who made a career out of bucking Hollywood, has died at 81. The director died ...

ROBERT ALTMAN, who receives an honorary Academy Award tonight, is perhaps the most American of directors. But his Americanness is of a special sort and doesn’t really connect up to any tradition ...

The American Cinematheque is marking the 20th anniversary of Robert Altman‘s Short Cuts by screening the film along with a documentary about its making Luck, Trust and Ketchup at 6:30 p.m ...

Yet Altman, whose centennial is this week, insisted on his own constancy. Upon receiving an Honorary Oscar in March 2006, he said that he didn’t view his films as discrete works.