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Robert Redford won 1 Oscar as Best Director for 'Ordinary People' and received multiple nominations for acting, directing and producing
Redford’s win for the family drama, starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore, made the “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” star one of six directors to win the Best Director Oscar for their debut film.
The 'Butch Cassidy' and 'All the President's Men' actor, Oscar-winning director and Sundance founder was "always about breaking the rules," he said.
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Late film legend Robert Redford directed Oscar-winning film in the High Desert
Actor and Oscar-winning director Robert Redford has died at 89. During his career, he starred and directed movies filmed in the High Desert.
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It Blows My Mind That Robert Redford Only Won One Oscar, Here Are 9 Times He Could Have Won Others
The entire cast puts in career-defining performances, and while Hoffman and Jane Alexander were nominated for Oscars, Jason Robards won for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Washington Post editor-in-chief Ben Bradlee; Redford was again snubbed completely.
Robert Redford had an adventurous childhood in California. He attended Van Nuys High School and later the University of Colorado. He travelled Europe
The legendary actor died Tuesday at 89. "I wasn't learning the way I was supposed to learn ..." he explained in 2013. "I realized that my education was going to happen when I got out in the world."