Sidney Lumet
Sidney Arthur Lumet (/luːˈmɛt/ loo-MET; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American film director. He was nominated five times for the Academy Award: four for Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976), and The Verdict (1982) and one for Best Adapted Screenplay for Prince of the City (1981). He did not win an individual Academy Award, but did receive an Academy Honorary Award, and 14 of his films were nominated for Oscars. According to The Encyclopedia of Hollywood, Lumet was one of the most prolific filmmakers of the modern era, directing more than one movie a year on average since his directorial debut in 1957. Turner Classic Movies notes his "strong direction of actors", "vigorous storytelling" and the "social realism" in his best work. Film critic Roger Ebert described him as "one of the finest craftsmen and warmest humanitarians among all film...
Filmography
Titles and credit roles
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Find Me Guilty
Strip Search
Gloria
Critical Care
Night Falls on Manhattan
Guilty as Sin
A Stranger Among Us
Q & A
Family Business
Running on Empty
The Morning After
Power
Garbo Talks
Daniel
The Verdict
Deathtrap
Prince of the City
Just Tell Me What You Want
The Wiz
Equus
Network
Dog Day Afternoon
Murder on the Orient Express
Lovin' Molly
Serpico
The Offence
Child's Play
The Anderson Tapes
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
The Appointment
The Sea Gull
Bye Bye Braverman
The Deadly Affair
The Group
The Hill
The Pawnbroker
Fail Safe
Long Day's Journey Into Night
A View from the Bridge
Play of the Week: Rashomon
John Brown's Raid
The Fugitive Kind
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
That Kind of Woman
All the King's Men
Stage Struck
12 Angry Men
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
The Challenge
Actor credits
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By Sidney Lumet
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
Prince of the City: The Real Story
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express'
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
The Education of Gore Vidal
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
New York at the Movies
Dziga and His Brothers
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
Fonda on Fonda
William Holden: The Golden Boy
Wiz on Down the Road- THThe Sun... the Sand... the Hill
One Third of a Nation
The 400 Million