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Alan J. Pakula
New York City, New York, USA
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-kno…
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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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan J. Pakula, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2020
Citizen Jane Fonda
Movie
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2020
Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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1998
Fearful Symmetry
Movie Self
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1997
The Devil's Own
Movie Director
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1993
The Pelican Brief
Movie Producer
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1992
Consenting Adults
Movie Producer
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1990
Presumed Innocent
Movie Director
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1989
See You in the Morning
Movie Director
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1987
Orphans
Movie Producer
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1986
Dream Lover
Movie Director
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1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Movie Self
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1982
Sophie's Choice
Movie Screenplay
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1981
Rollover
Movie Director
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1979
Starting Over
Movie Director
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1978
Comes a Horseman
Movie Director
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1976
All the President's Men
Movie Director
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1974
The Parallax View
Movie Director
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1973
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
Movie Director
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1971
'Klute' in New York
Movie Self
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1971
Film '72
TV show Self
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1971
Klute
Movie Producer
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1969
The Sterile Cuckoo
Movie Director
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1968
The Stalking Moon
Movie Producer
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1967
Up the Down Staircase
Movie Producer
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1966
Inside Daisy Clover
Movie Producer
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1965
Baby the Rain Must Fall
Movie Producer
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1963
Love with the Proper Stranger
Movie Producer
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1962
To Kill a Mockingbird
Movie Producer
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1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1957
Fear Strikes Out
Movie Producer
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1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
