'The Outlaw Josey Wales'

I would think most think of Clint Eastwood as an actor first, director second.

However, you have to consider him much more as a accomplished director, which is odd because he's also considered a hard, cold son of a bitch. But that's the screen Eastwood that we know well and that he pulls off so well.

He's won two Best Director and Best Picture Oscars. That's saying something considering Martin Scorcese waiting a billion years to get one for a movie that wasn't nearly as good as 90 percent of his other movies.

Eastwood's westerns (both as actor and director), particularly from the 1970s are beautiful, gritty films that deserve a ton of attention.