![]() ![]() The latter film, which dramatized a 1950s quiz-show scandal, earned four Oscar nominations, including best picture and best director. Of Redford’s first seven directorial efforts, The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), The Horse Whisperer, The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), and Lions for Lambs (2007) garnered lukewarm reviews, but Ordinary People, A River Runs Through It (1992), and Quiz Show (1994) are regarded as minor masterpieces. The film won best picture at the Academy Awards, and Redford himself won an Oscar for best director. Redford launched his directing career with Ordinary People (1980), a family drama adapted from a novel by Judith Guest. His later film credits included Avengers: Endgame (2019). ![]() The next year Redford portrayed a bank robber with charming manners in The Old Man & the Gun. In 2017 he played a widower who is befriended by his longtime neighbour (played by Jane Fonda) in the Netflix movie Our Souls at Night. ![]() Redford then starred in a remake of Pete’s Dragon, a family film from Disney. Redford portrayed CBS reporter Dan Rather in the newsroom drama Truth (2015), which concerns the backlash from a story about U.S. He then appeared in the action film Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and the buddy comedy A Walk in the Woods (2015), which was based on the memoir (1998) by writer Bill Bryson. Better received, however, was All Is Lost (2013), in which he played a sailor whose yacht is struck by a shipping container the tense survival drama featured little dialogue, and Redford was the only actor in the movie. Sneakers (1992), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Spy Game (2001), and The Clearing (2004) earned mixed reviews. Redford, however, was unable to repeat that level of success in later films. Out of Africa (1985), in which he appeared opposite Meryl Streep, won 7 of the 11 Oscars for which it was nominated. He starred in The Natural (1984), an adaptation of the Bernard Malamud novel about mythical baseball hero Roy Hobbs, which earned four Oscar nominations. It garnered Oscar nominations in eight categories and firmly established Redford’s star status. Richard Nixon, the film starred Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. An account of the downfall of the administration of U.S. Other films of the 1970s included The Great Gatsby (1974), The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), and Three Days of the Condor (1975), but they were overshadowed by All the President’s Men (1976). The Sting won that year’s Academy Award for best picture and earned Redford his only Oscar nomination for acting. He starred with Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were and reteamed with Newman in The Sting-the two most successful films of 1973-and was ranked as the top American box office attraction. The film became the top-grossing picture of the year, and Redford was soon one of Hollywood’s most popular and bankable stars, next appearing in such successful films as Downhill Racer (1969 written by James Salter) and The Candidate (1972). The turning point in his career came when he costarred with Paul Newman in the enormously popular comic western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), in which he portrayed the outlaw Sundance Kid. Redford appeared in mostly forgettable films throughout the mid-1960s, the cult favourite The Chase (1966) and the screen adaptation of Barefoot in the Park (1967) being notable exceptions. Listen to Robert Ginna, Nick Antosca, and Robert Redford speaking on James Salter's work See all videos for this article
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