The 96th Academy Awards include a few recognizable faces competing for major honors. One of the nominees has a husband who could be just as renowned in the film industry.
Annette Bening is nominated for her fifth Oscar. She has already been honored for her performances in The Grifters, American Beauty, Being Julia, and The Kids Are All Right, and she is hoping to win gold at this year's Nyad event. Her date may look familiar.
Annette Bening and Hollywood icon Warren Beatty walked down the aisle over three decades ago. Many people speculated if the couple was still together when he declined to attend the Oscars in 2024 with her.
How did Annette Bening and Warren Beatty meet?
Annette Bening and Warren Beatty first met in 1990 while working on the film Bugsy, in which Beatty played the real-life 1940s criminal Bugsy Siegel and Bening played his love interest, Virginia Hill.
Their on-screen chemistry was quite real: as soon as Beatty met Bening, he called Bugsy's director, Barry Levinson, and said, “I love her, and I'm going to marry her.”
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It's not common for two dynamic performers to collaborate, but Bening and Beatty's pairing was unexpected. Beatty was well-known for his womanizing, and he has been romantically linked to Joan Collins, Julie Christie, Michelle Phillips, Diane Keaton, Madonna, and a slew of other famous and gorgeous women.
Is Annette still married to Warren Beatty?
Warren and Annette will not be attending the 2024 Oscars together, but they are still happy together. During a visit to The Drew Barrymore Show in January 2024, the Being Julia actress discussed her long-term marriage.
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“I think marriage is like the greatest thing and greatest challenge, to make it all work and stay together, and that is the thing that I am so, so proud of with us,” she said.
Does Annette Bening have children?
Annette and Warren are parents to four children: Stephen, Benjamin, Isabel, and Ella. Now that the kids are grown, the Golden Globe winner admits that being an empty nester was difficult to adjust to.
“I miss them, quite frankly,” she told Closer in November 2019. “I understand that they are grownups and want to be independent in their lives; I admire that and am proud of them. I try to get them to text me as much as possible, but it doesn't always work.
