Overview

• Cindi Berger of Rogers & Cowan PMK confirmed Redford died on September 16 at his home in Sundance, Utah, and said he was surrounded by loved ones as the family requested privacy.
• Across six decades, he headlined classics including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, All the President’s Men, and Out of Africa.
• He won the 1980 Academy Award for Best Director for Ordinary People and later received an Honorary Oscar in 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
• As founder of the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival, he created a premier platform that launched generations of independent filmmakers.
• He is survived by his wife, Sibylle Szaggars, and daughters Shauna and Amy; his sons Scott and James predeceased him.