Peter Bogdanovich, the ascot-wearing cinephile and director of 1970s black-and-white classics like The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, has died. He was 82.

Bogdanovich died early Thursday morning at this home in Los Angeles, said his daughter, Antonia Bogdanovich. She said he died of natural causes. 

Considered part of a generation of young “New Hollywood” directors, Bogdanovich was heralded as an auteur from the start, with the chilling lone shooter film Targets. Soon after in 1971, The Last Picture Show, his evocative portrait of a small, dying town, earned eight Oscar nominations, including best director and best adapted screenplay for Bogdanovich himself, and won two (for actors