Robert Redford

9 films directed 18 Awards 3 Nominations

Biography

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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Awards and nominations

2019 Honorary César
2017 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom
2008 The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
2008 honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin
2002 Academy Honorary Award
1996 National Medal of Arts
1995 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
1995 Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated
1994 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
1989 Audubon Medal
1981 Academy Award for Best Director
1981 Academy Award for Best Director Nominated
1974 Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated
1962 Theatre World Award
— BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
— Directors Guild of America Award
— Kennedy Center Honors
— National Board of Review Award for Best Film
— Knight of the Legion of Honour
— Officer of Arts and Letters

The career in numbers

US$ 273 mi Total budget from 9 film(s) with data
US$ 464 mi Total box office from 9 film(s) with data
US$ 30 mi Average budget from 9 film(s) with data
US$ 52 mi Average box office from 9 film(s) with data
6.7 Average rating from 9 film(s) with data
1.7× Return on investment from 9 film(s) with data

Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.

Films directed

Film	Year	Budget	Box office	Rating
The Company You Keep	2012	US$ 2 mi	US$ 20 mi	6.2
The Conspirator	2011	US$ 25 mi	US$ 15 mi	6.6
Lions for Lambs	2007	US$ 35 mi	US$ 65 mi	6.0
The Legend of Bagger Vance	2000	US$ 80 mi	US$ 39 mi	6.6
The Horse Whisperer	1998	US$ 60 mi	US$ 187 mi	6.9
Quiz Show	1994	US$ 31 mi	US$ 25 mi	7.2
A River Runs Through It	1992	US$ 12 mi	US$ 43 mi	7.0
The Milagro Beanfield War	1988	US$ 22 mi	US$ 14 mi	6.6
Ordinary People	1980	US$ 6 mi	US$ 55 mi	7.4

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