Sidney Lumet
Gender: Male
Born: 25th June 1924
Died: 9th April 2011
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: 12 Angry Men, A Stranger Among Us, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Bye Bye Braverman, Child's Play, Critical Care, Daniel, Deathtrap, Dog Day Afternoon, Equus, Fail-Safe, Family Business, Find Me Guilty, Garbo Talks, Getting Out, Gloria, Guilty as Sin, Just Tell Me What You Want, King: a Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis, Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Lovin' Molly, Murder on the Orient Express, Network, Night Falls on Manhattan, Power, Prince of the City, Q&A, Rachel, quand du seigneur, Running on Empty, Serpico, Stage Struck, Strip Search, That Kind of Woman, The Anderson Tapes, The Appointment, The Deadly Affair, The Fugitive Kind, The Group, The Hill, The Iceman Cometh, The Morning After, The Offence, The Pawnbroker, The Sea Gull, The Verdict, The Wiz, The Wiz
Sidney Lumet ( /luːˈmɛt/ loo-MET; June 25, 1924 - April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982). He did not win an individual Academy Award, but he did receive an Academy Honorary Award and 14 of his films were nominated for various Oscars, such as Network, which was nominated for 10, winning 4.
The Encyclopedia of Hollywood states that Lumet was one of the most prolific directors of the modern era, making more than one movie per year on average since his directorial debut in 1957. He was noted by Turner Classic Movies for his "strong direction of actors", "vigorous storytelling" and the "social realism" in his best work. Film critic Roger Ebert described him as having been "one of the finest craftsmen and warmest humanitarians among all film directors." Lumet was also known as an "actor's director," having worked with the best of them during his career, probably more than "any other director." Sean Connery, who acted in five of his films, considered him one of his favorite directors,
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