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Bob Rafelson, the Oscar-nominated director of Five Easy Pieces, is dead at age 89
Bob Rafelson, the filmmaker who earned an Oscar nomination for his classic film Five Easy Pieces, has died at 89.The director died at his home in Aspen, Colorado, of natural causes, according to Deadline.In addition to his many collaborations with actor Jack Nicholson — who earned his own Academy Award nomination for Five Easy Pieces — Rafelson was known for co-creating The Monkees and their eponymous TV show with his producing partner Bert Schneider. Bob Rafelson, the Oscar-nominated director of Five Easy Pieces, has died at his Aspen, Colorado, home of natural causes at 89, according to Deadline; pictured in 1990Rafelson began his career in the 1950s as a story editor for televised plays, and by the early 1960s he had moved up to producing.By the middle of the decade, he met his future work partner Bert Schneider, and the two created BBS Productions, along with Schneider's friend Stephen Blauner.