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Ordinary People

film by Redford [1980]

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    • The Candidate
      In Robert Redford

      …launched his directing career with Ordinary People (1980), a family drama adapted from a novel by Judith Guest. The film won best picture at the Academy Awards, and Redford himself won an Oscar for best director. Of Redford’s first seven directorial efforts, The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), The Horse Whisperer,…

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  • Oscar for best picture, 1980

    Oscars to

      • Hutton for best supporting actor
        • Redford for best director
          • Sargent for best adapted screenplay

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              • Hutton
                • filming of Ordinary People
                  In Timothy Hutton

                  …psychological anguish in the film Ordinary People (1980) earned him critical acclaim and an Academy Award for best supporting actor.

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                • Mary Tyler Moore
                  In Mary Tyler Moore

                  …distant mother in Robert Redford’s Ordinary People (1980). Among her well-received television films are First, You Cry (1978), Heartsounds (1984), and Lincoln (1988). She also won an Emmy for her role as an unscrupulous orphanage director in the television miniseries Stolen Babies (1993).

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                • Donald Sutherland
                  In Donald Sutherland

                  …in the Academy Award-winning film Ordinary People (1980). He played other paternal or avuncular film roles in A Dry White Season (1989), Cold Mountain (2003), The Italian Job (2003), Pride & Prejudice (2005; as the estimable Mr. Bennet), The Mechanic (2011), and The

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