Robert Redford to Be Honored at San Francisco Film Festival
Robert Redford — actor, filmmaker, political and environmental activist, and independent film festival creator — will be the recipient of this year’s Peter J. Owens Award at the 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at 7:00 pm. at the Castro Theatre.
The Robert Redford tribute will feature career retrospective film clips, audience Q&A, and an onstage interview with Phil Bronstein, editor-at-large of the San Francisco Chronicle. That will be followed by a screening of the film that turned Redford into a superstar, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), directed by George Roy Hill, and co-starring Paul Newman and Katharine Ross.
Among Redford’s most notable films as a director are Ordinary People (1980), for which he won an Academy Award, and Quiz Show (1994).
As an actor, his biggest hits include Barefoot in the Park (1967), with Jane Fonda; The Sting (1973), once again teamed with Newman, and for which he received a best actor Oscar nomination; The Three Days of the Condor (1973), with Faye Dunaway; All the President’s Men (1976), with Dustin Hoffman; the prison drama Brubaker (1980); Out of Africa (1985), with Meryl Streep, and Indecent Proposal (1993), with Demi Moore.
Although his latest film as actor and director, Lions for Lambs, with Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep, failed to connect with audiences in the US, it became a box-office success elsewhere.
The Peter J. Owens Award, named for the San Francisco-based benefactor of arts and charitable organizations and San Francisco Film Society board member, "honors an actor whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity."
Tickets are $20 for SFFS members and $25 for non-members. Tickets are on sale now to Film Society members whose memberships are valid through the end of the Festival.
The 52nd edition of the San Francisco Film Festival, reportedly the longest-running film festival in the Americas, will be held from April 23-May 7, 2009.
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I can’t think of a more deserving individual to win a special award.
Not only is Robert Redford a great actor, he’s also a great humanitarian, a great environmentalist, great director and a great patron of independent filmmakers.
i LOVE robert redford.
ill never forget him in the way we were.
Any award given to Robert Redford is well-deserved. He is a fine actor and fine human being. But I beg to defer when you state that the role in Butch Cassidy made him a star. I think any red-blooded female will agree that The Way We Were was movie that made him pop into our collective female consciousness. But I’ve seen EVERY SINGLE FILM of Redford’s including those he’s directed and not one falls short of exceptional. Well done Bobby. Paul is laughing his head off up there and wishing he could send you another gag “item” to honor you as well.
Excellent news!
I hope that Robert Redford will have many other honors in his future.