Robert Redford Dies at 89

According to CinemaDrame News Agency, Robert Redford, one of Hollywood’s most iconic actors, best known for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men, has died at the age of 89. His representative, Cindi Berger, confirmed in a statement moments ago that Redford passed away in his sleep early Tuesday in Sundance, Utah.

Redford starred in several classics, including Three Days of the Condor, and in 1980 won the Academy Award for Best Director for his debut feature, Ordinary People. That film also earned three other Oscars, including Best Picture.

The California-born actor rose to fame with George Roy Hill’s crime drama Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and went on to become one of the defining figures of “New Hollywood” with films such as The Sting, The Candidate, The Great Gatsby, and Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa.

A pioneer of independent cinema, Redford founded the Sundance Institute in 1981 to support original filmmaking. By 1985, the institute had taken over the U.S. Film Festival and renamed it the Sundance Film Festival, which went on to become one of the world’s most important platforms for independent film.

In later years, Redford also spoke out on political issues. In an op-ed for NBC News, he criticized Donald Trump, writing: “We are facing a crisis I never thought I’d see in my lifetime: a dictator-like attack by President Donald Trump on everything this country stands for. It’s time for Trump to go… What’s happening now is so disturbing that instead of the United States of America, we should call our country the Divided States of America. Leaders on both sides lack the fundamental courage to put aside party politics and put the country first.”

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