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Sidney Lumet
Sidney Arthur Lumet was an American film director. Lumet started his career in theatre before moving to directing television in 1950, and then directing films from 1957, where he gained a reputation for making realistic and gritty New York dramas that focused on the working class, tackled social injustices, and often questioned authority. He received various accolades including an Academy Honorary…
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entertainment · American filmmaker (1924–2011) · film director · screenwriter · film producer · writer · stage actor · film actor · theatre director · television producer · director · producer · also Sidney Lumet, Sidney Arthur Lumet, Lumet
Born 25 June 1924 · Died 9 April 2011 · Q51559
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2026· 2 entries
“Every picture I did was an active, believable, passionate wish.”
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: Ethan Hawke Details How Sidney Lumet Pitted Him And Philip Seymour Hoffman Against Each Other For ‘Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead’
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2016· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: ‘American Masters: By Sidney Lumet’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Complex Moral Universe
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IndieWire: ‘By Sidney Lumet’ Clips: PBS Kicks Off Season 31 of ‘American Masters’ With Film’s Premiere
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2015· 2 entries
The Guardian: Network review – Philip French on Paddy Chayefsky and Sidney Lumet’s enduring satire
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Nancy Buirski directed By Sidney Lumet, a documentary about his career that aired in January 2017 as part of PBS's American Masters series
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2011· 2 entries
The Hollywood Reporter: Steven Spielberg Remembers Sidney Lumet
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Died 2011-04-09.
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Kinema Junpo Award (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Nastro d'Argento for Best Non-European Foreign Film for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Writing of his "nimble touch with performers, his ability to draw out great warmth and zesty humor with one hand and coax them toward ever darker, more anguished extremes of emotion with the other, was on gratifying disp
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2006· 2 entries
Lumet said that he had always been "fascinated by the human cost involved in following passions and commitments, and the cost those passions and commitments inflict on others"
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“fascinated by the human cost involved in following passions and commitments, and the cost those passions and commitments inflict on others”
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2005· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2005).
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Awarded Academy Awards (2005).
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Lumet received an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement for his "brilliant services to screenwriters, performers, and the art of the motion picture"
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And 14 of his films were nominated for various Oscars, such as Network, which was nominated for 10, winning 4
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Director (1982).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director (1981).
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1977· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Awards (1977).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director (1976).
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1960· 5 entries
Earned Silver Shell for Best Director (1960).
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Foreign Film (1960).
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Awarded Kinema Junpo Award (1960).
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Awarded Bodil Award for Best American Film (1960).
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Gained some notoriety: Sacco-Vanzetti Story on NBC
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Nastro d'argento for best non-Italian film for 12 Angry Men (1958).
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1957· 1 entry
Won Golden Bear (1957).
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1950· 2 entries
And then directing films from 1957, where he gained a reputation for making realistic and gritty New York dramas that focused on the working class, tackled social injustices, and often questioned authority
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After working as an assistant to friend and then-director Yul Brynner
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1939· 1 entry
At age 15, he made his only feature-length film appearance in
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1935· 1 entry
Aged 11, Lumet appeared in a Henry Lynn short film Papirossen (meaning "Cigarettes" in Yiddish), co-produced by radio star Herman Yablokoff
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-06-25.
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