Alan J. Pakula
Gender: Male
Born: 7th April 1928
Died: 19th November 1998
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: All the President's Men, Comes a Horseman, Consenting Adults, Dream Lover, Klute, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, Orphans, Presumed Innocent, Rollover, See You in the Morning, Sophie's Choice, Starting Over, The Devil's Own, The Parallax View, The Pelican Brief, The Sterile Cuckoo
Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, writer and producer noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre.
Pakula started his Hollywood career as an assistant in the cartoon department at Warner Brothers. In 1957, he undertook his first production role for Paramount Pictures. In 1962, he produced To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. In 1969, he directed his first feature, The Sterile Cuckoo, starring Liza Minnelli.
In 1971, Pakula released the first installment of what would informally come to be known as his "paranoia trilogy". Klute, the story of a relationship between a private eye (played by Donald Sutherland) and a call girl (played by Jane Fonda, who won an Oscar for her performance), was a commercial and critical success. This was followed in 1974 by The Parallax View starring Warren Beatty, a labyrinthine post-Watergate thriller involving political assassinations. The film has been noted for its experimental use of hypnotic imagery in a celebrated film-within-a-film sequence in which the protagonist is inducted into the Parallax Corporation, whose main, albeit
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