Sean Penn is a two-time Academy Award-winning actor, filmmaker, and author, and has become an American icon in a career spanning over four decades. As an actor, Penn has been nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins, 1995), Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 2000), and I Am Sam (Jessie Nelson, 2002). He won his first Oscar for Best Actor in 2003 for his searing performance in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River and his second in 2009 for Gus Van Sant's Milk. He was also awarded the Best Actor Prize at the Festival de Cannes in 1997 for his performance in Nick Cassavetes’s She’s So Lovely. As a filmmaker, Penn’s esteemed work includes the Academy Award-nominated Into the Wild, Flag Day, The Pledge, The Crossing Guard, and his debut film, The Indian Runner. Established in January 2010 by Penn as the J/P Haitian Relief Organization in the immediate aftermath of the catastrophic Haiti earthquake, the emergency relief nonprofit, renamed Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), continues to deliver immediate aid to underserved communities across the globe.