Known For
Directing
Born
Apr 07, 1928
Died
Nov 19, 1998
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
33 titles
Alan J. Pakula
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Citizen Jane Fonda
Self (archive footage)
Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Fearful Symmetry
Self
The Devil's Own
Director
The Pelican Brief
Director
Consenting Adults
Director
Presumed Innocent
Director
See You in the Morning
Director
Orphans
Director
Dream Lover
Director
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self
Sophie's Choice
Director
Rollover
Director
Starting Over
Director
Comes a Horseman
Director
All the President's Men
Director
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
Self
The Parallax View
Director
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
Director
'Klute' in New York
Self
Film '72
Self
Klute
Director
The Sterile Cuckoo
Director
The Stalking Moon
Producer
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Up the Down Staircase
Producer
Inside Daisy Clover
Producer
Baby the Rain Must Fall
Producer
Love with the Proper Stranger
Producer
To Kill a Mockingbird
Producer
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Self (uncredited)
Fear Strikes Out
Producer
The Oscars
Self