Overview

• Current coverage compiles film highlights and assessments of his cultural influence, offering appreciation rather than new reporting on his January passing at age 89 in Utah.
• Seminal performances spanned genres, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, The Candidate, All the President’s Men, The Great Gatsby, and Out of Africa.
• As a director, he won the Academy Award for Ordinary People in 1980 and later delivered acclaimed works such as Quiz Show, The Milagro Beanfield War, and Lions for Lambs.
• He founded the Sundance Institute and Festival in 1981, which became a launchpad for independent filmmakers and films including sex, lies, and videotape, Reservoir Dogs, Whiplash, and Get Out.
• Late-career standouts featured his near-solo turn in All Is Lost and his elegiac performances in The Old Man & the Gun and Our Souls at Night, the latter reuniting him with Jane Fonda.