Director
Alan J. Pakula
98 years · New York City, New York, USA · 30 films
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.
Best known for
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 · Producer
On Philo
All the President's Men
1976 · Director
On TCM
The Pelican Brief
1993 · Screenplay, Producer
On YouTube Free
The Devil's Own
1997 · Director
On Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel
Sophie's Choice
1982 · Screenplay, Director
On fuboTV
Presumed Innocent
1990 · Director, Screenplay
On Plex
Filmography 30
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020 · Self (archive footage)
On Tubi TV
Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
2020 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Fearful Symmetry
1998 · Self
The Devil's Own
1997 · Director
On Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel
The Pelican Brief
1993 · Screenplay, Producer
On YouTube Free
Consenting Adults
1992 · Producer, Director
On Hoopla
Presumed Innocent
1990 · Director, Screenplay
On Plex
See You in the Morning
1989 · Writer, Director
Orphans
1987 · Producer, Director
Dream Lover
1986 · Director, Producer
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985 · Self
On HBO Max
Sophie's Choice
1982 · Screenplay, Director
On fuboTV
Rollover
1981 · Director
Starting Over
1979 · Director, Producer
On Kanopy
Comes a Horseman
1978 · Director
On Tubi TV
All the President's Men
1976 · Director
On TCM
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
1976 · Self
The Parallax View
1974 · Director, Producer
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
1973 · Director, Producer
On fuboTV
'Klute' in New York
1971 · Self
Klute
1971 · Producer, Director
On Plex
The Sterile Cuckoo
1969 · Director, Producer
On Hoopla
The Stalking Moon
1968 · Producer
On Fawesome
Up the Down Staircase
1967 · Producer
On HBO Max