Overview

• His agent Cindi Berger said he died while sleeping at his home in the mountains near Provo, Utah, as a family communiqué requested privacy and did not disclose a cause.
• A family statement described his passing in Utah surrounded by loved ones and asked for privacy during the mourning period.
• Redford won the Academy Award for directing Ordinary People (1980) and later received an honorary Oscar in 2002.
• He founded the Sundance Institute, which grew into the Sundance Film Festival, a premier platform for independent filmmakers.
• He announced his retirement from acting in 2018, capped his leading roles with The Old Man & the Gun (2018), made a final screen appearance in Avengers: Endgame (2019), and drew tributes from collaborators including Demi Moore, Sônia Braga and Walter Salles.