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 Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for nine British Academy Film Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
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2009
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
actor
2008
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
director
2007
Find Me Guilty
director
2006
Find Me Guilty
writer
2006
The Making of 'Network'
actor
2006
Strip Search
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2004
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
actor
2004
A Decade Under the Influence
actor
2003
Gloria
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1999
Critical Care
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1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
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1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
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1997
Guilty as Sin
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1993
A Stranger Among Us
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1992
Fonda on Fonda
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1992
Q & A
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1990
Q & A
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1990
Family Business
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1989
Running on Empty
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1988
The Morning After
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1986
Power
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1986
Garbo Talks
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1984
Daniel
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1983
The Verdict
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1982
Deathtrap
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1982
The Making of 'Tootsie'
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1982
Prince of the City
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1981
Prince of the City
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1981
Just Tell Me What You Want
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1980
The Wiz
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1978
Wiz on Down the Road
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1978
Equus
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1977
Network
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1976
Dog Day Afternoon
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1975
Murder on the Orient Express
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1974
Serpico
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1973
The Offence
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1973
Child's Play
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1972
The Anderson Tapes
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1971
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
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1970
The Deadly Affair
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1967
The Group
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1966
The Hill
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1965
The Pawnbroker
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1965
Fail Safe
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1964
Long Day's Journey Into Night
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1962
A View from the Bridge
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1962
Play of the Week: Rashomon
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1960
The Iceman Cometh
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1960
John Brown's Raid
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1960
The Fugitive Kind
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1960
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
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1960
That Kind of Woman
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1959
All the King's Men
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1958
Stage Struck
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1958
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
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1958
Mr. Broadway
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1957
12 Angry Men
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1957
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
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1956
The Challenge
director
1955
One Third of a Nation
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1939