In 1980 Hanson directed the kid’s karate film The Little Dragons, and followed that up with the seminal 1983 comedy Losin’ It, with Tom Cruise and Shelley Long.
He directed L.A. Confidential, almost universally regarded as one of the best American films of the 1990s.
Curtis Hanson enjoyed a directing career that spanned five decades, from the early 1970s to the 2010s, and included 13 feature films and an Academy Award in 1997 for co-writing L.A. Confidential.
Hanson died Tuesday at the age of 71 of natural causes, The Wrap reported.