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===2010s=== In 2010, Bogdanovich joined the directing faculty at the School of Filmmaking at the [[University of North Carolina School of the Arts]]. On April 17, 2010, he was awarded the Master of Cinema Award at the 12th Annual [[RiverRun International Film Festival]]. In 2011, he was given the Auteur Award by the [[International Press Academy]], which is awarded to filmmakers whose singular vision and unique artistic control over the elements of production give a personal and signature style to their films.<ref>[http://www.pressacademy.com/award_cat/current-nominees/ 2011 Satellite Winners], December 2011.</ref> In 2012, Bogdanovich made news with an essay in ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', published in the aftermath of the [[2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting|Aurora, Colorado theater shooting]], in which he argued against excessive violence in the movies:{{Blockquote|Today, there's a general numbing of the audience. There's too much murder and killing. You make people insensitive by showing it all the time. The body count in pictures is huge. It numbs the audience into thinking it's not so terrible. Back in the '70s, I asked Orson Welles what he thought was happening to pictures, and he said, 'We're brutalizing the audience. We're going to end up like the [[Roman circus]], live at the [[Colosseum|Coliseum]].' The respect for human life seems to be eroding.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dark-knight-rises-shooting-peter-bogdanovich-353774 |title=Legendary Director Peter Bogdanovich: What If Movies Are Part of the Problem? |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=July 25, 2012|access-date=February 27, 2013}}</ref>}} In 2014, Bogdanovich's last narrative film, ''[[She's Funny That Way (film)|She's Funny That Way]]'', was released in theaters and on-demand, followed by the documentary, ''[[The Great Buster: A Celebration]]'' in 2018.<ref>{{Citation|title=The Great Buster|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt8758548/|access-date=January 2, 2020}}</ref> In 2018, [[Orson Welles]]' long-delayed film ''[[The Other Side of the Wind]]'', which was filmed in the 1970s and featured a prominent supporting role by Bogdanovich, who had long hoped to complete it, was released by [[Netflix]] to critical acclaim.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_other_side_of_the_wind|title=The Other Side of the Wind (2018)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|date=November 2, 2018 |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date=January 7, 2022}}</ref> One of his final hopes was to direct a personal passion project he had worked on since the 1980s titled ''Wait for Me'' which Bogdanovich had described as a "ghost picture", the likes of ''[[The Ghost Goes West]]'', that was directly inspired by his relationship with [[Dorothy Stratten]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/does-this-seem-strange-to-you-20020720-gdueyi.html|title=Does this seem strange to you?|newspaper=[[The Age]]|date=July 20, 2002|access-date=December 3, 2023|quote=And a ghost picture called ''Wait For Me'' that he says he's been working on "literally for 20 years", which takes us back to the immediate aftermath of [[Dorothy Stratten]]'s death. "I like the story. It's got a lot more difficult since I first thought of it, though. It used to be about a guy who married three times and had three daughters. Now he marries six times and has six daughters."}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Prigge|first=Matt|url=https://www.metro.us/peter-bogdanovich-on-shes-funny-that-way-and-orson-welles-last-movie/|title=Peter Bogdanovich on 'She's Funny That Way' and Orson Welles' last movie|work=[[Metro International]]|date=August 21, 2015|access-date=December 4, 2023|quote=I'm going to do another film first called "Wait for Me." It's a comedy-drama-fantasy, because there are ghosts in it. It's something I've been working on for more than 30 years. I think I've finally got it right. It's gone through many versions and drafts. But it was the first idea that sprang to mind after a little tragedy we had here in the family. In November of '80 I thought it might be an interesting idea. I don't think I wrote a script until the end of the '80s. Originally it was for [[John Cassavetes]] to play the lead. But John was very ill. He died in '89. But I sent him the script, which was an early draft, and he gave me some notes. And for the rest of the time before he died, he'd say, "Are you going to make that picture?" I said, "Yeah." He said, "You better make that picture." And then when he was very close to dying, one of the last things he said to me was, "Listen, kid, you better make that picture, because you know what? I'll be there."}}</ref> In a July 2015 interview for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', Bogdanovich revealed that [[Brett Ratner]] was going to produce the film, and that they were currently in the process of attaching actors. The plot, as described by Bogdanovich, would have followed a washed-up Hollywood director/star (someone like [[Orson Welles]] or [[Charlie Chaplin]]), who is visited by the ghost of his last wife, who was killed six years earlier in a plane crash.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Labrecque|first=Jeff|url=https://ew.com/article/2015/07/24/peter-bogdanovich-shes-funny-way/|title=Peter Bogdanovich talks his new screwball comedy and his plans to finish Orson Welles' lost, last movie|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=July 24, 2015|access-date=September 3, 2022|quote="It's about a movie director slash star β somebody like [[Woody Allen]] or [[John Cassavetes]] or [[Orson Welles]] or [[Charlie Chaplin]] β and he's basically known for comedy. And he's been married six times and he's got six daughters, and his last wife, the one he seems to have been most keen on, was killed in a plane crash, six years before the movie begins. And the guy's life in those six years, since it happened, has turned to s**t. He's in bad shape. He can't be hired by Hollywood because he chopped up a projection room and beat up a producer. So he's ''[[persona non grata]]'' in Hollywood. Before the picture begins, he spends quite a bit of time in Italy, conning the Italians that he's got a story, that he's got to check locations. So he's been traveling all around Italy. I don't want to get into the whole plot, but the point is the ghost of his last wife shows up eventually. And there's a rock star that gets into trouble. He's a friend of his, and he's in love with one of his daughters. It's a complicated comedy-drama-fantasy, and I'm very keen on it. And Brett likes it and we're going to do it."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=9_dnn8LAjI0&si=kKAFQTEdzCQ9ypp2|title=BOGDANOVICH, his next film "WAIT FOR ME"|date=April 18, 2016|website=[[YouTube]]|format=video}}</ref>
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