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A director known for versatility across genre — horror, western, erotica, science fiction — while maintaining a distinct authorial voice across each. His adaptation of The Right Stuff earned eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, and his version of The Unbearable Lightness of Being won the BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay. His 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is widely regarded as a rare case of a horror remake surpassing its original.