:Robert Redford

Redford was born on August 18, 1936,{{cite news|title=Monitor|newspaper=Entertainment Weekly|date=Aug 17–24, 2012|issue=1220/1221|page=28}} in Santa Monica, California, to Martha Woodruff Redford (née Hart; 1914–1955), who was from Austin, Texas, and Charles Robert Redford Sr. (1914–1991), an accountant.{{cite web |last1=Schlosser |first1=Conor |title=Keeping Nature in the Picture: An Interview with Robert Redford |url=https://orionmagazine.org/article/robert-redford-nature-interview/ |website=Orion |access-date=23 February 2025 |date=8 November 2024}} He has a paternal half-brother, William.Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2005 Redford is of Irish, Scottish, and English ancestry.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDVXCQgRBaAC&q=robert+redford+grandfather+charles+elisha&pg=PT28|title=Robert Redford: The Biography |date=2011 |first=Michael Feeney |last=Callan|publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9780857206190|access-date=April 25, 2020}}{{cite news |last=Farber |first=Stephen |date=October 20, 1991 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/ads/theclearing/redford_4.html |title=Sponsored Archives: A Robert Redford Retrospective, Redford Turns West Again |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116123746/http://www.nytimes.com/ads/theclearing/redford_4.html |archive-date=January 16, 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=January 6, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/gbr_78.asp |title=New England Historic Genealogical Society |access-date=April 27, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051212091640/http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/gbr_78.asp |archive-date=December 12, 2005 }}. Web.archive.org (December 12, 2005). Retrieved January 6, 2012. His patrilineal great-great-grandfather, a Protestant Englishman named Elisha Redford, married Mary Ann McCreery, of Irish Catholic descent, in Manchester, Lancashire. They emigrated to New York City in America in 1849, immediately settling next in Stonington, Connecticut. They had a son named Charles, the first in line to have been given the name. Regarding Redford's maternal lineage, the Harts were Irish from Galway and the Greens were Scotch-Irish who settled in the United States in the 18th century. Redford's family lived in Van Nuys while his father worked in El Segundo. As a child, he and his family would often travel to Austin, Texas to visit his maternal grandfather and credits his environmentalism and love of nature to his childhood in Texas.{{cite web | url=https://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies/article/Redford-discusses-how-Texas-saved-itself-from-1786207.php | title=Redford discusses how Texas saved itself from serious environmental harm | work=Chron | date=March 23, 2008 }}

Robert attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball pitcher Don Drysdale.{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/07/did-robert-redford-play-high-school-baseball-with-don-drysdale.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |agency=(blog) |last=Cronin |first=Brian |title=Did Robert Redford play high school baseball with Don Drysdale? |date=July 14, 2011 |access-date=August 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812155939/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/07/did-robert-redford-play-high-school-baseball-with-don-drysdale.html |archive-date=August 12, 2016 |url-status=live }} He has described himself as having been a "bad" student, finding inspiration outside the classroom in art and sports. He hit tennis balls with Pancho Gonzalez at the Los Angeles Tennis Club to help Gonzalez warm up for matches. Redford had a mild case of polio when he was 11.{{cite web |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/polio-battle-sparked-redfords-jonas-doco/tsp2hrecj |title=Polio battle sparked Redford's Jonas doco |website=Special Broadcasting Service |agency=Australian Associated Press |date=February 13, 2014 |access-date=December 15, 2024}}

After graduating from high school in 1954,{{cite web | url=http://www.biography.com/people/robert-redford-9453490 | title=Robert Redford | access-date=April 24, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427114231/http://www.biography.com/people/robert-redford-9453490 | archive-date=April 27, 2016 | url-status=live | df=mdy-all }} he attended the University of Colorado in Boulder for a year and a half,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7oEcAAAAIBAJ&pg=4491%2C4173446 |newspaper=The Dispatch |location=(Lexington, North Carolina) |agency=Associated Press |last=De Forest |first=Ben |title=Redford plays a natural |date=August 10, 1983 |page=9}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K2AxAAAAIBAJ&pg=5533%2C6078589 |newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star|location=(North Carolina)|agency=Associated Press |title=Redford visits 'party school' |date=May 14, 1987|page=7D}} where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.{{cite web |url=http://www.kappasigma.org/alumni/entertainmentmedia/ |title=Entertainment/Media |website=Kappa Sigma Fraternity |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822021732/http://www.kappasigma.org/alumni/entertainmentmedia/ |archive-date=August 22, 2014 }} While there, he worked at a restaurant/bar called The Sink, where a painting of his likeness now figures prominently among the bar's murals.{{cite web |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/crazywanda/863313365/ |title=Entra |publisher=Flickr.com |access-date=July 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207091656/https://www.flickr.com/photos/crazywanda/863313365/ |archive-date=February 7, 2017 |url-status=live }} While at Colorado, Redford began drinking heavily and, as a result, lost his half-scholarship and was kicked out of school. He went on to travel in Europe, living in France, Spain, and Italy. He later studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Class of 1959) in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/04/arts/academy-of-dramatic-arts-at-100.html|title=Academy of Dramatic Arts at 100|first=Nan|last=Robertson|date=October 4, 1984|website=The New York Times}}

Redford's career began in New York City, where he worked both on stage and in television. His Broadway debut was in a small role in Tall Story (1959), followed by parts in The Highest Tree (1959) and Sunday in New York (1961). His biggest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in the original 1963 cast of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park.Drew Casper, Hollywood Film 1963–1976: Years of Revolution and Reaction (2011), p. xlv Starting in 1960, Redford appeared as a guest star on numerous television drama programs, including Naked City, Maverick, The Untouchables, The Americans, Whispering Smith, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Route 66, Dr. Kildare, Playhouse 90, Tate, The Twilight Zone, The Virginian, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion, among others.{{Cite web|url=https://www.metv.com/stories/watch-for-robert-redfords-first-role-ever-he-took-a-punch-on-maverick|title=Watch: For Robert Redford's first role ever, he took a punch on Maverick|website=Me-TV Network|access-date=June 19, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.deseret.com/2012/8/23/20505827/chris-hicks-robert-redford-cut-his-teeth-on-60s-tv/|title=Chris Hicks: Robert Redford cut his teeth on '60s TV|date=August 23, 2012|website=Deseret News|access-date=June 19, 2019|archive-date=July 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130716082116/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865561117/Robert-Redford-cut-his-teeth-on-760s-TV.html|url-status=live}}

Redford made his screen debut in Tall Story (1960), reprising his Broadway role. The film's stars were Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda (her debut), and Ray Walston. After his Broadway success, he was cast in larger feature roles in movies. In 1960, Redford was cast as Danny Tilford, a mentally disturbed young man trapped in the wreckage of his family garage, in "Breakdown", one of the last episodes of the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis and Lang Jeffries.{{Citation |title=Breakdown |date=March 31, 1960 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074035/ |series=Rescue 8 |access-date=August 9, 2022}} Redford earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (ABC, 1962). One of his last television appearances until 2019 was on October 7, 1963, on Breaking Point, an ABC medical drama about psychiatry. In 1962 Redford got his second film role in War Hunt, and was soon after cast alongside screen legend Alec Guinness in the war comedy Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious, in which he played a US soldier falsely imprisoned by a German civilian even after the war has ended. In Inside Daisy Clover (1965), which won him a Golden Globe for best new star, he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood, and rejoined her along with Charles Bronson for Sydney Pollack's This Property Is Condemned (1966) — again, as her lover, though this time in a film which achieved even greater success. The same year saw his first teaming (on equal footing) with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's The Chase. This film marked the only time Redford would star with Marlon Brando.

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Fonda and Redford were paired again in the popular big-screen version of Barefoot in the Park (1967) and were again co-stars many years later in Pollack's The Electric Horseman (1979), followed 38 years later with a Netflix feature, Our Souls at Night. After this initial success, Redford became concerned about his blond male stereotype image{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3622923/Robert-Redford-acts-his-age.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3622923/Robert-Redford-acts-his-age.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Robert Redford acts his age|last=Gritten|first=David|journal=Daily Telegraph|date=August 27, 2004|access-date=June 19, 2019|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}} and refused roles in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate.{{Cite web|url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/beginners-guide-to-robert-redford/|title=A Beginner's Guide to Robert Redford|date=September 24, 2018|website=Film School Rejects|access-date=June 19, 2019}} Redford found the niche he was seeking in George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. The film was a huge success and made him a major bankable star, cementing his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy.{{Cite web|url=http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/robert-redford-career-highlights-391831.html|title=Robert Redford's Career Highlights|date=December 22, 2013|website=femalefirst.co.uk|access-date=June 19, 2019}}

While Redford did not receive an Academy Award or Golden Globe nomination for playing the Sundance Kid, he won a British Academy of Film and Television Award (BAFTA) for that role and his parts in Downhill Racer{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-robert-redford|author=Ebert, Roger|work=Chicago Sun-Times|title=Interview With Robert Redford|date=June 15, 1969|access-date=March 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329054458/https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-robert-redford|archive-date=March 29, 2018|url-status=live}} (1969) and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969). The latter two films and the subsequent Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970), and The Hot Rock (1972) were not commercially successful. Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the camera. As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for Downhill Racer. The political satire The Candidate (1972) was a moderate box office and critical success.{{cite web|url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/candidate-review-1972-movie-1123602/|title= 'The Candidate': THR's 1972 Review|website= The Hollywood Reporter|date= June 29, 2018|accessdate= August 18, 2023}}

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Starting in 1973, Redford experienced an almost-unparalleled four-year run of box office success. The western Jeremiah Johnson{{'}}s (1972) box office earnings from early 1973 until its second re-release in 1975 would have placed it as the No. 2 highest-grossing film of 1973.Michael Gebert, The Encyclopedia of Movie Awards, St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, 1996, p. 305. The romantic period drama with Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were (1973), was the 5th highest-grossing film of 1973. The crime caper reunion with Paul Newman, The Sting (1973), became the top-grossing film of 1974Michael Gebert, The Encyclopedia of Movie Awards, St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, 1996, pg. 315. and one of the top 20 highest-grossing movies of all time when adjusted for inflation, plus landed Redford the lone nomination of his career for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The following year he starred in the romantic drama The Great Gatsby (1974) starring Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, and Bruce Dern. The film was the No. 8 highest-grossing film of 1974. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) placed as the No. 10 highest-grossing film for 1974 as it was re-released due to the popularity of The Sting. In 1974 Redford became the first performer since Bing Crosby in 1946 to have three films in a year's top ten grossing titles. Each year between 1974 and 1976, movie exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box-office star.

In 1975, Redford's hit movies included 1920s aviation drama, The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), and the spy thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975), alongside Faye Dunaway, which finished at Nos. 16 and 17 in box office grosses for 1975, respectively.Michael Gebert, The Encyclopedia of Movie Awards, St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, 1996, pg. 321. In 1976 he co-starred with Dustin Hoffman in the No. 2 highest-grossing film for the year, the critically acclaimed All the President's Men.Michael Gebert, The Encyclopedia of Movie Awards, St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, 1996, pg. 328. In 1975, 1977 and 1978, Redford won the Golden Globe for Favorite World Film Star, a popularity-based award that is no longer awarded.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} In 1976, Robert Redford published The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time. Redford states, "The Outlaw Trail. It was a name that fascinated me - a geographical anchor in Western folklore. Whether real or imagined, it was a name that, for me, held a kind of magic, a freedom, a mystery. I wanted to see it in much the same way as the outlaws did, by horse and by foot, and document the adventure with text and photographs."{{cite book |last1=Redford |first1=Robert |title=The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time |date=1976 |publisher=Grosset & Dunlap |location=New York |isbn=0448145901 |pages=8–13}}

All the President's Men (1976), in which Redford and Hoffman play Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, was a landmark film for Redford. Not only was he the executive producer and co-star, but the film's serious subject matter — the Watergate scandal — and its attempt to create a realistic portrayal of journalism also reflected the actor's offscreen concerns for political causes. The film landed eight Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture and Best Director (Alan J. Pakula), while winning for the Best Screenplay (Goldman). It won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Picture and Best Director. In 1977, Redford appeared in a segment of the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977). Then he took a two-year hiatus from movies, before starring as past-his-prime rodeo star in the adventure-romance The Electric Horseman (1979). This film reunited him with Jane Fonda, finishing at No. 9 in the box office for 1980.Michael Gebert, The Encyclopedia of Movie Awards, St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, 1996, pg. 355.

His first film as director was the drama film Ordinary People (1980), a drama about the slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family after the death of a son. Redford was credited with obtaining a powerful dramatic performance from Mary Tyler Moore, as well as superb work from Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. The film is one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Academy Awards, including Best Director for Redford himself, and Best Picture.{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/01/movies/ordinary-people-wins-the-academy-award-for-best-picture.html|title= 'ORDINARY PEOPLE' WINS THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE|work= The New York Times|date= April 1981|accessdate= August 18, 2023|last1= Harmetz|first1= Aljean}} Critic Roger Ebert declared it "an intelligent, perceptive, and deeply moving film."{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ordinary-people-1980|title= Ordinary People movie review|website= Roger Ebert.com|accessdate= August 18, 2023}} Later that year he appeared in the prison drama Brubaker (1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system.

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Soon after that, he starred in the baseball drama The Natural (1984). Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa (1985), with Redford in the male lead role opposite Meryl Streep, became a large box office success (combined 1985 and 1986 grosses placed it at No. 5 for 1986),Michael Gebert, The Encyclopedia of Movie Awards, St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, 1996, pg. 401. won a Golden Globe for Best Picture,{{cite web | url=https://www.nme.com/news/bohemian-rhapsody-worst-reviewed-golden-globes-winner-since-80s-2429215 | title='Bohemian Rhapsody' is the worst-reviewed Golden Globes winner in 33 years | work=NME | date=January 10, 2019 | access-date=January 14, 2019 | first=John | last=Earls | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110151752/https://www.nme.com/news/bohemian-rhapsody-worst-reviewed-golden-globes-winner-since-80s-2429215 | archive-date=January 10, 2019 | url-status=live | df=mdy-all }} and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Streep was nominated for Best Actress but Redford did not receive a nomination. The movie proved to be Redford's biggest success of the decade and Redford and Pollack's most successful of their seven movies together. Redford's next film, Legal Eagles (1986) alongside Debra Winger, was only a minor success at the box office.

Redford did not direct again until The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols's acclaimed novel of the Southwest. The Milagro Beanfield War is the story of the people of Milagro, New Mexico (based on the real town of Truchas in northern New Mexico), overcoming big developers who set about to ruin their community and force them out with tax increases. Other directorial projects have included the period drama A River Runs Through It (1992), based on Norman Maclean's novella starring Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, and Tom Skerritt. Redford received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. In 1994 he directed the exposé Quiz Show about the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s. In the latter film, Redford worked from a screenplay by Paul Attanasio with noted cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and a strong cast that featured Paul Scofield, John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Ralph Fiennes. David Ansen of Newsweek wrote, "Robert Redford may have become a more complacent movie star in the last decade, but he has become a more daring and accomplished filmmaker. 'Quiz Show' is his best movie since 'Ordinary People'".{{cite web|url= https://www.newsweek.com/when-america-lost-its-innocence-maybe-188338|title= When America Lost Its Innocence--Maybe|website= Newsweek|date= September 18, 1994|accessdate= August 18, 2023|last1=Ansen|first1=David|author-link=David Ansen}}

Redford continued as a major star throughout the 1990s and 2000s. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992, which was a return to mainstream success for Redford as a director and brought a young Brad Pitt to greater prominence. In 1993, he played what became one of his most popular and recognized roles, starring in Indecent Proposal as a billionaire businessman who tests a couple's morals; the film became one of the year's biggest hits. He co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in the newsroom romance Up Close & Personal (1996), and with Kristin Scott Thomas and a young Scarlett Johansson in The Horse Whisperer (1998), which he also directed. Redford also continued work in films with political contexts, such as Havana (1990), playing Jack Weil, a professional gambler in 1959 Cuba during the Revolution, as well as Sneakers (1992), in which he co-starred with River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier.{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/dec/20/sneakers-robert-redford-and-river-phoenix-nerd-out-in-1992s-prescient-high-tech-caper|title= Sneakers: Robert Redford and River Phoenix nerd out in 1992's prescient, high-tech caper|website= Guardian|date= December 19, 2021|accessdate= August 18, 2023|last1= Cryer|first1= Vanessa}}

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Redford also directed Matt Damon and Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the prison drama The Last Castle (2001), directed by Rod Lurie. In the same year, Redford reteamed with Brad Pitt for Spy Game, another success for the pair but with Redford switching this time from director to actor. During that time, he planned to direct and star in a sequel of The Candidate{{Cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2002/10/24/robert-redford-plans-candidate-sequel/|title=Robert Redford plans Candidate sequel|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=December 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230233514/https://ew.com/article/2002/10/24/robert-redford-plans-candidate-sequel/|archive-date=December 30, 2018|url-status=live}} but the project never happened.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/09/the-candidate-and-the-sequel-that-never-was/502301/|title=The Candidate and the Sequel That Never Was – The Atlantic|last=Garber|first=Megan|website=The Atlantic|date=September 29, 2016 |access-date=December 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230181344/https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/09/the-candidate-and-the-sequel-that-never-was/502301/|archive-date=December 30, 2018|url-status=live}} Redford, a leading environmental activist, narrated the IMAX documentary Sacred Planet (2004), a sweeping journey across the globe to some of its most exotic and endangered places. In The Clearing (2004), a thriller co-starring Helen Mirren, Redford was a successful businessman whose kidnapping unearths the secrets and inadequacies that led to his achieving the American Dream.

Redford stepped back into producing with The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and his friend Alberto Granado. It also explored the political and social issues of South America that influenced Guevara and shaped his future. With five years spent on the film's making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting it made and released. Back in front of the camera, Redford received good notices for his role in director Lasse Hallström's An Unfinished Life (2005) as a cantankerous rancher who is forced to take in his estranged daughter-in-law (Jennifer Lopez)—whom he blames for his son's death—and the granddaughter he never knew he had when they fled an abusive relationship. The film, which sat on the shelf for many months while its distributor Miramax was restructured, was generally dismissed as clichéd and overly sentimental.

Meanwhile, Redford returned to familiar territory when he reteamed with Meryl Streep 22 years after they starred in Out of Africa, for his personal project Lions for Lambs (2007), which also starred Tom Cruise. After a great deal of hype, the film opened to mixed reviews and disappointing box office. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Lions for Lambs is so square it's like something out of the gray twilight glow of the golden age of television. Even the military plot, which clunks, seems to be taking place on stage."{{cite magazine|url= https://ew.com/article/2007/11/07/lions-lambs-2/|title= Lions for Lambs|magazine= Entertainment Weekly|accessdate= August 18, 2023}} In 2010, Redford released The Conspirator, a period drama revolving around the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Redford appeared in the 2011 documentary Buck by Cindy Meehl, where he discussed his experiences with title subject Buck Brannaman during the production of The Horse Whisperer. In 2012, Redford directed The Company You Keep, in which he starred as a former Weather Underground activist who goes on the run after a journalist discovers his identity. The film starred himself, Shia LaBeouf and Julie Christie.

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In 2013, Redford starred in All Is Lost, directed by J.C. Chandor, about a man lost at sea. He received acclaim for his performance in the film, in which he is its only cast member and there is almost no dialogue. Redford was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, his first time winning an acting honour from that group (he had been nominated in 1969 for Downhill Racer). Ali Arikan wrote in RogerEbert.com, "Chandor plays to Redford's strengths: his battered visage, calm determination, and detachment from the vagaries of a "normal" existence. In return, Redford gives the performance of the latter half of his career in a role that is not just physically, but also psychologically demanding".{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/all-is-lost-2013|title= All is Lost movie review & film summary|website= Rogerebert.com|accessdate= August 18, 2023}}

In April 2014, Redford played the main antagonist of the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Alexander Pierce, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. and leader of the Hydra cell operating the Triskelion.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/robert-redford-confirms-captain-america-winter-soldier-role-153202834.html |title=Robert Redford Confirms Captain America: The Winter Soldier Role |publisher=Yahoo! News |date=April 3, 2013 |access-date=July 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504235253/http://news.yahoo.com/robert-redford-confirms-captain-america-winter-soldier-role-153202834.html |archive-date=May 4, 2013 |url-status=live }} Redford was a co-producer and, with Emma Thompson and Nick Nolte, acted in the film A Walk in the Woods (2015), based on Bill Bryson's book of the same name. Redford had optioned the film rights for the book from Bryson after reading it more than a decade earlier, with the intent of costarring in it with Paul Newman but had shelved the project after his death.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/a-walk-woods-director-robert-818321 |title='A Walk in the Woods' Director on Why Robert Redford Put Film on Shelf After Paul Newman's Death |last=Gajewski |first=Ryan |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=September 2, 2015 |access-date=June 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627204856/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/a-walk-woods-director-robert-818321 |archive-date=June 27, 2017 |url-status=live }}

The same year, he played news anchor Dan Rather in James Vanderbilt's Truth alongside Cate Blanchett. The film received mixed reviews with Justin Chang of Variety noting, "Redford, who bears a solid resemblance to Rather but not quite enough to make you forget whom you're watching, plays the veteran newsman with easy gravitas, inner strength and a gentle paternal twinkle, with little display of the anger and volatility for which he was often known over the course of his storied career."{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/truth-review-cate-blanchett-robert-redford-toronto-film-festival-1201592326/|title= Toronto Film Review: 'Truth'|website= Variety|date= September 13, 2015|accessdate= August 18, 2023}} In 2016, he took the supporting role of Mr. Meacham in the Disney remake Pete's Dragon. The next year, Redford starred in The Discovery and Our Souls at Night, both released on Netflix streaming in 2017. The latter film, which was also produced by Redford, reunited him with co-star Jane Fonda for the fourth time and garnered positive reviews.{{Citation|title=Our Souls at Night (2017)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/our_souls_at_night|volume=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=December 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127051127/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/our_souls_at_night/|archive-date=November 27, 2017|url-status=live}},

Redford played bank robber Forrest Tucker in the David Lowery directed drama film The Old Man & the Gun, which was released in September 2018, and for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. Alissa Wikinson wrote in Vox, "In The Old Man & the Gun, both Redford and Lowery are returning to their roots. For Redford, a role as a lifelong bank robber feels like a fitting cap to a career effectively launched half a century ago with his role alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."{{cite web|url= https://www.vox.com/2018/9/25/17887624/old-man-gun-review-robert-redford-retire-david-lowery-sissy-spacek|title= Robert Redford bids farewell to the silver screen in the pitch-perfect The Old Man & the Gun|website= Vox|date= September 25, 2018|accessdate= August 18, 2023}} In August 2018, Redford announced his retirement from acting after completion of the film,{{Cite magazine|url=http://ew.com/movies/2018/08/06/robert-redford-retiring-acting/|title=Exclusive: Robert Redford announces he's retiring from acting|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=August 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807093018/http://ew.com/movies/2018/08/06/robert-redford-retiring-acting/|archive-date=August 7, 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/06/robert-redford-retires-the-old-man-and-the-gun|title=Robert Redford confirms retirement from acting|last=Pulver|first=Andrew|date=August 6, 2018|website=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806173031/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/06/robert-redford-retires-the-old-man-and-the-gun|archive-date=August 6, 2018|url-status=live|access-date=August 6, 2018}} though the following month, Redford stated that he "regretted" announcing his retirement because "you never know".{{cite web|title=Robert Redford Reveals He Never Should Have Said He Is Retiring: 'That Was a Mistake'|url=https://people.com/movies/robert-redford-admits-he-never-should-have-said-he-is-retiring-mistake/|date=September 21, 2018|access-date=April 17, 2021|website=People}}

He briefly reprised his role as Alexander Pierce for a cameo appearance in Avengers: Endgame, filmed in 2017 prior to the completion of the former film.{{cite web |url=https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2019/04/30/robert-redford-comes-out/ |title=Robert Redford comes out of retirement for a strategic cameo in (spoiler alert!) ‘Avengers: Endgame’ |work=Salt Lake Tribune |last=Means |first=Sean P. |date=April 30, 2019 |access-date=May 5, 2025}}

Redford, an executive producer of the series Dark Winds made a cameo alongside fellow executive producer George R. R. Martin portraying a detainee playing chess.{{cite web |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/dark-winds-season-3-premiere-robert-redford-george-rr-martin-cameo.html |title=How Dark Winds Scored Two Legends for a Premiere Cameo |work=Vulture |last=Chaney |first=Jen |date=March 9, 2025 |access-date=May 5, 2025}}

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{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Robert Redford}}

File:2005 Kennedy Center honorees.jpg and First Lady Laura Bush pose with the Kennedy Center honorees (L-R), actress Julie Harris, actor Redford, singer Tina Turner, ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell and singer Tony Bennett on December 4, 2005, at a reception in the Blue Room at the White House.]]

In his directing debut, Redford won the 1980 Academy Award for Best Director for the film Ordinary People. He was a 2002 Academy Honorary Award recipient at the 74th Academy Awards.{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/2000-present/74nominees.html |title=Nominees & Winners for the 74th Academy Awards |website=Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907043052/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/2000-present/74nominees.html |archive-date=September 7, 2014}} In 2017, he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Venice Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/jane-fonda-and-robert-redford-golden-lions-venice|title=Biennale Cinema 2017 {{!}} Jane Fonda and Robert Redford Golden Lions in Venice|date=July 18, 2017|website=La Biennale di Venezia|access-date=June 19, 2019}} On February 22, 2019, Redford received the Honorary César at the 44th César Awards in Paris.

Redford attended the University of Colorado in the 1950s and received an honorary degree in 1988. In 1989, the National Audubon Society awarded Redford its highest honor, the Audubon Medal.{{cite web|url=http://www.audubon.org/content/audubon-medal|title=Previous Audubon Medal Awardees|date=January 9, 2015|access-date=August 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923180426/http://www.audubon.org/content/audubon-medal|archive-date=September 23, 2015|url-status=live}} In 1995, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College. Redford received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Brown University at the 240th Commencement exercises on May 25, 2008, with the actor also speaking at the ceremonies.{{cite press release |url=http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2008/05/commence2008hdrecipients |title=Brown University to Confer Seven Honorary Degrees May 25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513072701/http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2008/05/commence2008hdrecipients |archive-date=May 13, 2009 |access-date=July 15, 2009}} He was a 2010 recipient of the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.{{cite web|title=Award Winners|url=http://www.nmartmuseum.org/governors/awards/search.php?view=detail&year=2010&id=264|publisher=New Mexico Museum of Art|access-date=June 27, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109034650/http://www.nmartmuseum.org/governors/awards/search.php?view=detail&year=2010&id=264|archive-date=January 9, 2014}} On May 24, 2015, Redford delivered the commencement address and received an honorary degree from Colby College in Maine.{{Cite web|url=http://www.colby.edu/commencement/2015/robert-redford/|title=Robert Redford|date=May 24, 2015|website=Commencement|access-date=June 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817093131/http://www.colby.edu/commencement/2015/robert-redford/|archive-date=August 17, 2016|url-status=live}}

In 1996, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton.{{cite web |title=Lifetime Honors: National Medal of Arts |url=http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html |website=nea.gov |access-date=March 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194408/http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#96 |archive-date=August 26, 2013 |url-status=dead }} On October 14, 2010, Redford was appointed chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by President Nicolas Sarkozy.{{cite web |url=http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2010/10/robert-redford-receives-legion-dhonneur-from-frances-president-sarkozy/ |title=SUNfiltered | Robert Redford Receives "Legion d'Honneur" from France's President Sarkozy |work=sundancechannel.com |date=October 14, 2010 |access-date=May 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312080745/http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2010/10/robert-redford-receives-legion-dhonneur-from-frances-president-sarkozy/ |archive-date=March 12, 2011 |url-status=dead }}

On November 22, 2016, President Barack Obama honored Redford with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.{{cite web |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/16/president-obama-names-recipients-presidential-medal-freedom |title=President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom |date=November 16, 2016 |access-date=November 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121161738/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/16/president-obama-names-recipients-presidential-medal-freedom |archive-date=January 21, 2017 |via=National Archives |work=whitehouse.gov |url-status=live }} In December 2005, he received the Kennedy Center Honors for his contributions to American culture. The honors recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts: whether in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures or television.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/05/arts/at-kennedy-center-honors-5-more-join-an-elite-circle.html| newspaper=The New York Times| title=At Kennedy Center Honors, 5 More Join an Elite Circle| first=John| last=Files| date=December 5, 2005| access-date=February 11, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529172527/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/05/arts/at-kennedy-center-honors-5-more-join-an-elite-circle.html| archive-date=May 29, 2015| url-status=live| df=mdy-all}}

In 2008, Redford received The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life."{{cite web |title=The Prize |url=http://gishprize.org/prize/ |website=The Dorothy & Lillian Gish Prize |access-date=August 31, 2019}} The University of Southern California (USC) School of Dramatic Arts announced the first annual Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists in 2009. According to the school's website, the award was created "to honor those who have distinguished themselves not only in the exemplary quality, skill and innovation of their work, but also in their public commitment to social responsibility, to increasing awareness of global issues and events, and to inspiring and empowering young people."{{cite web |url=http://theatre.usc.edu/Robert-Redford-award/index.html |title=Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826023753/http://theatre.usc.edu/Robert-Redford-award/index.html |archive-date=August 26, 2009 |access-date=July 15, 2009}}

With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Downhill Racer, Redford bought a ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah, called "Timp Haven". He renamed it "Sundance" after his Sundance Kid character. Redford's ex-wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. Portions of the movie Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, was shot near the ski area.

Redford went on to create the Sundance Film Festival, which became the country's largest festival for independent films. In 2008, Sundance exhibited 125 feature-length films from 34 countries, with more than 50,000 attendees in Salt Lake City, and Park City, Utah.{{cite web |first=Adrienne |last=Papp |url=http://www.adriennepapp.com/pdf/Sundance%202008rev.pdf |title=2008 Sundance Insider |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528223150/http://www.adriennepapp.com/pdf/Sundance%202008rev.pdf |archive-date=May 28, 2008 |access-date=May 16, 2008}}

Robert Redford also founded the Sundance Institute; Sundance Cinemas; Sundance Catalog; and the Sundance Channel; all in and around Park City, 30 miles (48 km) north of the Sundance ski area. Redford also owned a Park City restaurant, Zoom, that closed in May 2017.{{cite web|last=Gardner|first=Chris|date=November 10, 2016|title=Robert Redford's Park City Restaurant Zoom to Close Its Doors|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/robert-redfords-park-city-restaurant-zoom-close-doors-945483|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320053416/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/robert-redfords-park-city-restaurant-zoom-close-doors-945483|archive-date=March 20, 2017|access-date=March 19, 2017|website=The Hollywood Reporter}}

Robert Redford is the co-owner of Wildwood Enterprises, Inc., with Bill Holderman, producer, with the following film credits: Lions for Lambs; Quiz Show; A River Runs Through It; Ordinary People; The Horse Whisperer; The Legend of Bagger Vance; Slums of Beverly Hills; The Motorcycle Diaries; and The Conspirator.{{cite web|url=https://www.backstage.com/resources/detail/productioncompany/wildwood-enterprises-inc-50256/|title=Wildwood Enterprises, Inc. – Production Company – Backstage|website=backstage.com|access-date=January 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004604/https://www.backstage.com/resources/detail/productioncompany/wildwood-enterprises-inc-50256/|archive-date=January 29, 2018|url-status=live}}

Redford is the president and co-founder of Sundance Productions, with Laura Michalchyshyn.

Most recently, Sundance Productions produced Chicagoland (CNN), Cathedrals of Culture (Berlin Film Festival), The March (PBS) and Emmy nominee All The President's Men Revisited (Discovery), Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live!, and To Russia With Love on Epix.{{cite web|url=http://sundance-productions.com/who-we-are/|title=Who We Are – Sundance Productions|website=sundance-productions.com|access-date=January 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123152152/http://sundance-productions.com/who-we-are/|archive-date=January 23, 2018|url-status=live}}

Since founding the nonprofit Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah, in 1981, Redford has been deeply involved with independent film. Through its various workshop programs and popular film festival, Sundance has provided support for independent filmmakers. In 1995, Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable television channel devoted to airing independent films. The Sundance Channel premiered on February 29, 1996.{{Cite web |last=Kim |first=Gobi |date=1 January 1998 |title=Programming Profile: The Sundance Channel – And the Festival Goes on… Tv |url=https://realscreen.com/1998/01/01/20279-19980101/ |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=Realscreen.com}}

On August 9, 1958, Redford married Lola Van Wagenen in Las Vegas. A second reception was held at Lola's grandmother's home on September 12. They had four children: Scott Anthony Redford (September 1, 1959 – November 17, 1959), Shauna Jean Redford{{Cite web|last=Fox|first=Courtney|date=February 12, 2021|title=Robert Redford: Meet The Hollywood Legend's Four Children|url=https://www.wideopencountry.com/amy-redford/|access-date=April 15, 2021|website=Wide Open Country|language=en-US}} (b. November 15, 1960), David James Redford (May 5, 1962 – October 16, 2020),{{Cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/celebrity/james-redford-filmmaker-son-robert-redford-dies/|title=James Redford, filmmaker and son of Robert Redford, dies at 58|magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jamie-redford-filmmaker-and-son-of-robert-redford-dies-at-58|title=James Redford Dead: Filmmaker and Son of Robert Redford Was 58|date=October 19, 2020|website=The Hollywood Reporter}} and Amy Hart Redford (b. October 22, 1970).

Redford and Van Wagenen never publicly announced a separation or divorce, but in 1982, entertainment columnist Shirley Eder reported that the pair "have been very much apart for a number of years."Eder, Shirley (October 7, 1982). "Redfords have been living apart for a long time". Detroit Free Press. p. 13B. In 1991, Parade magazine stated, "it is unclear whether the divorce has been finalized.""Walter Scott's Personality Parade." The Salt Lake Tribune. July 21, 1991.

Scott Redford died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of {{frac|2|1|2}} months and is buried at Provo City Cemetery in Provo, Utah. Shauna Redford is a painter and married to journalist Eric Schlosser. James Redford was a writer and producer, while Amy Redford is an actress, director, and producer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.villanovaice.com/2016/03/in-development-a-chat-with-director-amy-redford/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806193030/https://www.villanovaice.com/2016/03/in-development-a-chat-with-director-amy-redford/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 6, 2020|title=In Development: A Chat with Director Amy Redford|date=March 6, 2016|work=Villanova ICE Institute|first=Myra|last=Villas|language=en|access-date=October 21, 2019}} Redford has seven grandchildren.{{cite web|url=http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Robert-Redford-praises-younger-wife-Sibylle-Szaggars--talks-retirement/7911723|title=Robert Redford praises younger wife Sibylle Szaggars, talks retirement|work=ABC7 Los Angeles|access-date=April 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408112048/http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Robert-Redford-praises-younger-wife-Sibylle-Szaggars--talks-retirement/7911723|archive-date=April 8, 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite news |last1=Braun |first1=Kelly |title=Robert Redford's Family: Get to Know Kids James, Shauna, Amy and Scott |url=https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/robert-redfords-kids-meet-james-shauna-amy-and-scott/ |access-date=31 March 2023 |work=Closer Weekly |date=18 August 2022}}

On July 11, 2009, Redford married his longtime girlfriend, Sibylle Szaggars, at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. She had moved in with Redford in 1996 and shared his home in Sundance, Utah.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5836472/Robert-Redford-marries-long-term-girlfriend.html|title=Robert Redford marries long-term girlfriend|date=July 15, 2009|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=April 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100411082749/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5836472/Robert-Redford-marries-long-term-girlfriend.html|archive-date=April 11, 2010|url-status=dead}}

In May 2011, Robert Redford: The Biography was published by Alfred A. Knopf, written by Michael Feeney Callan over fifteen years with Redford's input and drawn from his personal papers and diaries.

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Redford supports environmentalism, Native American rights, LGBT rights,{{cite news|url=http://dot429.com/articles/3038-robert-redford-stands-up-for-equal-rights-at-equality-utah-allies-dinner|title=Robert Redford stands up for equal rights at Equality Utah Allies dinner|date=September 17, 2013|publisher=Dot429|access-date=September 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019053339/http://dot429.com/articles/3038-robert-redford-stands-up-for-equal-rights-at-equality-utah-allies-dinner|archive-date=October 19, 2013|url-status=dead}} and the arts. He also supported advocacy groups, such as the Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America.{{cite web |url=http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Robert_Redford.php |title=Robert Redford's Federal campaign contributions |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071002172647/http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Robert_Redford.php |archive-date=October 2, 2007 |website=Newsmeat.com}} Redford has supported Republicans, including Brent Cornell Morris in his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination for Utah's 3rd congressional district in 1990. Redford also supported Gary Herbert, another Republican and a friend, in Herbert's successful 2004 campaign to be elected Utah's Lieutenant Governor. Herbert later became Governor of Utah.{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/robert-redford-utah-gary-herbert-99649.html|title=Robert Redford honored by Utah's leaders|agency=Associated Press|work=Politico|access-date=January 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116081902/http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/robert-redford-utah-gary-herbert-99649.html|archive-date=November 16, 2013|url-status=live}}

As an avid environmentalist, Redford is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-redford/obama-energy-policy_b_1985714.html|title=Why I'm Supporting President Obama|date=October 19, 2012|access-date=October 20, 2012|work=HuffPost|first=Robert|last=Redford|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020145428/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-redford/obama-energy-policy_b_1985714.html|archive-date=October 20, 2012|url-status=live}} Redford is the first quote on the back cover of Donald Trump's book Crippled America (2015), saying of Trump's candidacy, "I'm glad he's in there, being the way he is, and saying what he says and the ways he says it, I think shakes things up and I think that is very needed."{{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/252564-robert-redford-im-glad-trump-is-running-for-president/ |title=Robert Redford 'glad' Trump is running |first=Eric |last=Garland |date=September 2, 2015 |access-date=May 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129000736/http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/252564-robert-redford-im-glad-trump-is-running-for-president |archive-date=January 29, 2016 |url-status=live }}{{cite book|title=Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again|first=Donald J.|last=Trump|date=November 5, 2015|publisher=Threshold Editions|id={{ASIN|1501137964|country=uk}}}} A representative later clarified that Redford's statement, taken from a longer conversation with Larry King, was not intended to endorse Trump for president.{{cite web | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-redford-donald-trump-endorsement-820933 |title=Robert Redford Denies Endorsing Donald Trump for President |date=September 8, 2015 |work=The Hollywood Reporter}}

File:Robert Redford with Bill Richardson.jpg Bill Richardson in 2009]]

In 2019, Redford penned an op-ed in which he referred to Trump's administration as a "monarchy in disguise" and stated "[i]t's time for Trump to go".{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/president-trump-s-dictator-administration-attacking-values-america-holds-dear-ncna1091156?cid=eml_nbn_20191126|title=Robert Redford: President Trump's dictator-like administration is attacking the values America holds dear|last=Redford|first=Robert|work=NBC News|date=November 26, 2019|access-date=April 11, 2020}} Redford later co-authored another op-ed in which he criticized Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic while also citing the collective public response to the pandemic as a model for how to respond to climate change.{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-coronavirus-failures-offer-warnings-lessons-about-future-climate-ncna1195931|title=Trump's coronavirus failures offer warnings and lessons about future climate change challenges|last1=Redford|first1=Robert|last2=Redford|first2=James|work=NBC News|date=April 30, 2020|access-date=May 5, 2020}} He criticized the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/08/opinions/robert-redford-paris-accord-opinion/index.html|title=Robert Redford: A race against time to undo damage caused by Trump|last=Redford|first=Robert|work=CNN|date=November 8, 2019|access-date=May 5, 2020}} In July 2020, Redford penned an op-ed in which he stated President Trump lacks a "moral compass". In the same piece, he announced that he would be voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.{{Cite web |last=Redford |first=Robert |title=Robert Redford: This is who gets my vote in 2020 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/opinions/trump-biden-presidential-election-robert-redford/index.html |access-date=July 8, 2020 |website=CNN|date=July 7, 2020 }}

Redford was opposed to the TransCanada Corporation's Keystone Pipeline.{{cite news|title=Robert Redford helping anti-pipeline cause, says TransCanada head|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/robert-redford-helping-anti-pipeline-cause-says-transcanada-head-1.2446562|access-date=October 16, 2016|publisher=CBC News|date=November 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019225833/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/robert-redford-helping-anti-pipeline-cause-says-transcanada-head-1.2446562|archive-date=October 19, 2016|url-status=live}} In 2013, he was identified by its CEO, Russ Girling, for leading the anti-pipeline protest movement. In April 2014, Redford, a Pitzer College Trustee, and Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley announced that the college will divest fossil fuel stocks from its endowment; at the time, it was the higher education institution with the largest endowment in the US to make this commitment. The press conference was held at the LA Press Club. In November 2012, Pitzer launched the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College.{{cite web|url=http://pitweb.pitzer.edu/communications/2014/04/pitzer-college-robert-redford-announce-breakthrough-fossil-fuel-divestment-climate-action-model/|title=Pitzer College|work=Office of Communications|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129035013/http://pitweb.pitzer.edu/communications/2014/04/pitzer-college-robert-redford-announce-breakthrough-fossil-fuel-divestment-climate-action-model/|archive-date=November 29, 2014}}

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Further reading

• {{cite book |last1=Callan |first1=Michael Feeney |author-link=Michael Feeney Callan |title=Robert Redford: The Biography |location=New York |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |year=2011 |isbn=978-0679450559 |oclc=320697546 |url=https://archive.org/details/robertredfordbio0000call |url-access=registration |access-date=March 29, 2016 }}
• {{cite news |last1=Meyerson |first1=Debra E. |last2=Fryer |first2=Bronwyn |title=Turning an Industry Inside Out: A Conversation with Robert Redford |url=https://hbr.org/2002/05/turning-an-industry-inside-out-a-conversation-with-robert-redford |work=Harvard Business Review |date=1 May 2002}}

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• [http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/25/sundance_founder_robert_redford_on_his Sundance Founder Robert Redford on His Life, His Activism and the Importance of Independent Films] – Democracy Now, January 2010
• [http://www.c-span.org/person/?robertredford Robert Redford appearances on C-SPAN]
• {{cite web|url=https://thetubegalore.com/scott-anthony-redford/|title=Charles Robert Redford's Son|website=TubeGalore|date=May 18, 2024 |access-date=June 24, 2024}}

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