Overview

• Redford’s agent, Cindi Berger, confirmed he died in his sleep on September 16 at his home in the mountains near Provo, Utah, and no cause of death was disclosed.
• Over six decades he became a defining screen presence with films such as Butch Cassidy and the Kid, The Sting, All the President’s Men, Three Days of the Condor and Out of Africa, often collaborating with Sydney Pollack.
• He founded the Sundance Institute in 1981 and the Sundance Film Festival in 1985, nurturing generations of independent filmmakers; Marlee Matlin praised Sundance for propelling projects like CODA.
• Redford won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1981 for Ordinary People and received an honorary Oscar in 2002, later stepping back from acting after 2018 with a brief appearance in 2019.
• Tributes poured in from across culture and politics, with Meryl Streep calling him “a lion,” Jane Fonda mourning a longtime friend and co-star, and President Donald Trump praising his singular star power, as coverage also noted Redford’s environmental and Indigenous-rights advocacy.