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” and soon after “The Last Picture Show,” from 1971, his evocative portrait of a small, dying town that earned eight Oscar nominations and catapulted him to stardom. He followed “The Last Picture Show” with the screwball comedy “What’s Up, Doc?,” starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, and then the Depression-era road trip film “Paper Moon,” which won 10-year-old Tatum O’Neal an Oscar.

FILE - Peter Bogdanovich arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "She's Funny That Way" on Aug. 19, 2015. Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director of "The Last Picture Show," and "Paper Moon," died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82. (Photo by Chris PizzelloInvisionAP, File)

FILE - Peter Bogdanovich arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "She's Funny That Way" on Aug. 19, 2015. Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director of "The Last Picture Show," and "Paper Moon," died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82. (Photo by Chris PizzelloInvisionAP, File)

His turbulent personal life was also often in the spotlight, from his well-known affair with Cybill Shepherd that began during the making of “The Last Picture Show” while he was married to his close collaborator, Polly Platt, to the murder of his Playmate girlfriend Dorothy Stratten and his subsequent marriage to her younger sister, Louise, who was 29 years younger than him.

A native of New York, Bogdanovich started out as a film journalist and critic, working as a film programmer at the Museum of Modern Art, where through a series of retrospectives he endeared himself to a host of old guard filmmakers including Orson Welles, Howard Hawks and John Ford.

FILE - U.S. film director, writer and actor Peter Bogdanovich poses during a photo call for the presentation of the movie "The Dukes" at the Rome Film Festival in Rome on Oct. 23, 2007. Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director of "The Last Picture Show," and "Paper Moon," died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82. (AP PhotoSandro Pace, File)

FILE - U.S. film director, writer and actor Peter Bogdanovich poses during a photo call for the presentation of the movie "The Dukes" at the Rome Film Festival in Rome on Oct. 23, 2007. Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director of "The Last Picture Show," and "Paper Moon," died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82. (AP PhotoSandro Pace, File)
FILE - Film director Peter Bogdanovich attends the Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Tribute to Quentin Tarantino on Dec. 3, 2012 in New York. Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director of "The Last Picture Show," and "Paper Moon," died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82. (Photo by Andy KropaInvisionAP, File)

FILE - Film director Peter Bogdanovich attends the Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit Tribute to Quentin Tarantino on Dec. 3, 2012 in New York. Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director of "The Last Picture Show," and "Paper Moon," died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82. (Photo by Andy KropaInvisionAP, File)