Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Film Director                          

Selected Works:

Motion pictures:

The Delinquents - 1956 - Altman's directorial debut
The James Dean Story - 1957 - documentary - co-dir: George W. George
The Katherine Reed Story - 1965 - short documentary
Pot au feu - 1965 - short
Girl Talk - 1966 - ColorSonics short starring Bobby Troup
The Party - 1966 - ColorSonics short starring Robert Fortier
Speak Low - 1966 - ColorSonics short starring Lili St. Cyr
Ebb Tide - 1966 - ColorSonics short starring Lili St. Cyr
Countdown - 1968
That Cold Day in the Park - 1969
MASH - 1970
Brewster McCloud - 1970
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 1971
Images - 1972
The Long Goodbye - 1973
Thieves Like Us - 1974
California Split - 1974
Nashville - 1975
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson - 1976
3 Women - aka Robert Altman's 3 Women - 1977
A Wedding - 1978
Quintet - 1979
A Perfect Couple - 1979
HealtH - 1980
Popeye - 1980
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean - 1982
Streamers - 1983
Secret Honor - 1984
O.C. & Stiggs - 1984 - released in 1987
Fool for Love - 1985
Beyond Therapy - 1987
Aria - 1987 - segment: Les Boréades
Vincent and Theo - 1990
The Player - 1992
Short Cuts - 1993
Prêt-à-Porter also known as Ready to Wear - 1994
Kansas City - 1996
The Gingerbread Man - 1998
Cookie's Fortune - 1999
Dr. T & the Women - 2000
Gosford Park - 2001
The Company - 2003
A Prairie Home Companion - 2006, also distributed as The Last Show

Television work - TV movies and miniseries:

Nightmare in Chicago - 1964 [previously "Once Upon a Savage Night" in Kraft Suspense Theater]
Precious Blood - 1982 - TV-Movie written by Frank South
Rattlesnake in a Cooler - 1982 - TV-Movie written by Frank South
Secret Honor - 1984
The Laundromat - 1985 - 60 min.
Basements - 1987 - two one-act plays by Harold Pinter: The Dumb Waiter and The Room - the former was released to video as its own feature by Prism Entertainment
Tanner '88 - 1988 - six hour mini-series for HBO
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial - 1988 - TV-Movie based on the play by Herman Wouk
Vincent & Theo - 1990 - British Mini-series in 4 parts, later released in edited form worldwide as feature film.
McTeague - 1992 - an opera for PBS
The Real McTeague - 1993 - making of "McTeague", also for PBS
Black and Blue - 1993 - an Emmy nominated filmed play which aired on PBS' "Great Performances"
Robert Altman's Jazz '34 - 1996 - PBS special about the music from Kansas City
Tanner on Tanner - 2004 - two hour mini-series for the Sundance Channel, a follow-up to Tanner '88                          

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his work with an Academy Honorary Award in 2006.
His films MASH and Nashville have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.