Robert Redford
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1981 Best Director Won Ordinary People
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Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career, he won several film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1980 film Ordinary People. He also received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2016 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a re-union with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford.
In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. He received a second Academy Award—for Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He additionally won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.
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Perry Mason
Avengers: Endgame
CBS News Sunday Morning
Dark Winds
Golden Globe Awards
Maverick
American Experience
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Twilight Zone
The Virginian
Dr. Kildare
The Untouchables
Spécial cinéma
Naked City
The Defenders
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Route 66
Film '72
The Oscars
The Madison
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Kennedy Center Honors
Sneakers
The Sting
Indecent Proposal
Out of Africa
Pete's Dragon
White House Plumbers
A Bridge Too Far
Charlotte's Web
The Last Castle
Superpowered: The DC Story
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
V.I.P. Schaukel
Spy Game
The New Breed
aspekte
A River Runs Through It
Bus Stop
Three Days of the Condor
The Natural
All the President's Men
The Great Gatsby
All Is Lost
Iconoclasts
An Unfinished Life
The Way We Were
The Horse Whisperer
Lions for Lambs
Talking Pictures
Leçon de Cinéma
The Chase
Breaking Point
Play of the Week
The Americans
Jeremiah Johnson
The Company You Keep
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Dark Winds
A River Runs Through It
Iconoclasts
Quiz Show
The Horse Whisperer
Lions for Lambs
The Company You Keep
Directing
6 credits
A River Runs Through It
Ordinary People
Quiz Show
The Horse Whisperer
Lions for Lambs
The Company You Keep
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