Robert Redford Passes Away at 89: Oscar-Winning Actor, Director, and Sundance Founder

Robert Redford, an Oscar-winning actor and director, has died at 89, according to The New York Times. The publicist stated that Redford was taken peacefully in his sleep at home in the mountain location outside Provo, Utah. No information was given regarding his cause of death.

🌟 Career-Shaping Hollywood and Beyond

For over 50 years, Redford had become one of the most influential figures in cinema. He starred in:

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• The Sting (1973)
• Three Days of the Condor (1975)
• All the President's Men (1976)

For his first attempt directing, Ordinary People, he gained the Oscar for Best Director in 1980 and directed the admired films A River Runs Through It (1992) and Quiz Show (1994).

🎬 The Sundance Legacy

Apart from Hollywood, Redford has given the world cinema by way of founding the Sundance Institute in 1980. The Sundance Film Festival has over time become the world's most eminent bastion of independent cinema, wherein such greats as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and Ryan Coogler were launched.

🌱 Environmentally Conscious

Redford would thus be the quintessential environmental activist. He served on the Board of the NRDC for over 30 years, successfully opposing highway expansion and power plant projects in Utah. His activism created a platform from which actor-environmental activists like Leonardo DiCaprio eventually emerged.

👨‍👩‍👧 Family

He is survived by his wife, Sibylle Szaggars; daughters, Shauna Schlosser Redford and Amy Redford; and seven grandchildren.

Lasting Influence

That indeed would be painful; losing Redford, as the Hankins would say, for the one and only, have been a myriad of indelible attributes conferred by Redford upon the Earth on the one hand, whilst the constant suffrage for independent voice and vicissitudes in focus on environmental protection on the other hand has altered the trajectory of generations yet to come.