Sidney Lumet is an American film director. He received several awards 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.
Lumet's most known films include the courtroom drama 12 Angry Men (1957), the Holocaust drama The Pawnbroker (1964), the Cold War thriller Fail Safe (1964), the crime dramas Serpico (1973), and Dog Day Afternoon (1975) as well as the satirical news drama Network (1976), the psychological drama Equus (1977), the legal drama The Verdict (1982), and the crime thriller Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007).
Lumet received five Academy Award nominations winning the Honorary Oscar in 2004. He also received nine British Academy Film Award nominations as well as six Golden Globe Award for Best Director nominations winning for Network (1975). In 1961 he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series nomination for his work on NBC Sunday Showcase.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1957 Best Director 12 Angry Men 1975 Dog Day Afternoon 1976 Network 1981 Best Adapted Screenplay Prince of the City 1982 Best Director The Verdict 2004 Honorary Oscar
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.British Academy Film Awards1966 Best Film The Hill Outstanding British Film United Nations Award Fail Safe 1967 The Pawnbroker 1968 Outstanding British Film The Deadly Affair 1974 Best Direction Murder on the Orient Express / Serpico 1975 Best FilmDog Day Afternoon Best Direction 1977 Best Film Network
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.Primetime Emmy Awards1961 Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series NBC Sunday Showcase
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1957 Best Director 12 Angry Men 1975 Dog Day Afternoon 1976 Network 1981 Prince of the City 1982 The Verdict 1989 Running on Empty
Festival awards Cannes Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1962 Palme d'Or Long Day's Journey into Night 1965 The Hill 1969 The Appointment 1992 A Stranger Among Us
Berlin International Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1957 Golden Bear 12 Angry Men 1959 That Kind of Woman 1964 Pawnbroker 1966 The Group 2006 Find Me Guilty
Venice Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1981 Golden Lion Prince of the City
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