Sidney Lumet, one of the great directors of the modern era will receive an Honorary Academy Award at this year’s ceremony in February in recognition of his body of work over the last near fifty years.
Four times nominated for Oscars as best director for Twelve Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982), Lumet is among the elite directors to emerge from the seventies. Known as an actor’s director for his remarkable skills with actors, many of the actors he has directed over the years have earned Oscars or nominations.
Among the elite performances Lumet has directed have been Henry Fonda (Twelve Angry Men), Katherine Hepburn and Jason Robards (Long Day’s Journey into Night), Al Pacino (Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon), Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, William Holden, Beatrice Straight and Peter Finch (Network), Richard Burton and Peter Firth (Equus), Treat Williams (Price of the City), Paul Newman and James Mason (The Verdict) and Jane Fonda (The Morning After).
In addition to be nominated four times as director, he was also nominated for his screenplay adaptation to Prince of the City (1981) which won him the coveted New York Film Critics Award for best director.
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