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Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula’s screen credits include director work on All the President's Men and director work on The Pelican Brief.
Born April 7, 1928† November 19, 1998 New York City, New York, USA2 movies on MoviHero
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Alan Jay Pakula (/pəˈkuːlə/; April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Associated with the New Hollywood movement, his best-known works include his critically acclaimed "paranoia trilogy": the neo-noir mystery Klute (1971), the conspiracy thriller The Parallax View (1974), and the Watergate scandal drama All the President's Men (1976). His other notable films included Comes a Horseman (1978), Starting Over (1979), Sophie's Choice (1982), Presumed Innocent (1990), and The Pelican Brief (1993). Pakula received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for All the President's Men and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sophie's Choice. He was also nominated for Best Picture for producing To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Additionally, he was a BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Directors Guild of America Award nominee. Pakula's films often dealt with psychological and political themes. His obituary in The New York Times stated Pakula made "different kinds of movies, all of them intended to entertain, but the …
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thread connecting many of them was a style that emphasized and explored the psychology and motivations of his characters." He was the subject of the 2023 documentary Alan Pakula: Going for Truth.
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- 2020Citizen Jane FondaSelf (archive footage)
- 2020Meryl Streep: Mystery and MetamorphosisSelf - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 1998Fearful SymmetrySelf
- 1997The Devil's OwnDirector
- 1992Consenting AdultsProducer · Director
- 1990Presumed InnocentDirector · Writer
- 1989See You in the MorningWriter · Director · Producer
- 1987OrphansProducer · Director
- 1986Dream LoverDirector · Producer
- 1985George Stevens: A Filmmaker's JourneySelf
- 1982Sophie's ChoiceWriter · Director · Producer
- 1981RolloverDirector
- 1979Starting OverDirector · Producer
- 1978Comes a HorsemanDirector
- 1976Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'Self
- 1974The Parallax ViewDirector · Producer
- 1973Love and Pain and the Whole Damn ThingDirector · Producer
- 1971'Klute' in New YorkSelf
- 1971KluteProducer · Director
- 1969The Sterile CuckooDirector · Producer
- 1968The Stalking MoonProducer
- 1967Up the Down StaircaseProducer
- 1966Inside Daisy CloverProducer
- 1965Baby the Rain Must FallProducer
- 1963Love with the Proper StrangerProducer
- 1962To Kill a MockingbirdProducer
- 1961Hollywood: The Selznick YearsSelf (uncredited)
- 1957Fear Strikes OutProducer
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