SIDNEY LUMET
Name: Sidney Lumet
Born: 25 June 1924 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Sidney Lumet (born June 25, 1924) is an Academy Award-winning American film
director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12
Angry Men (1957), Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and
The Verdict (1982), all of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best
Director. He won an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, for his "brilliant
services to screenwriters, performers, and the art of the motion picture".
Lumet was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Eugenia (née Wermus),
an actress, and Baruch Lumet, a Yiddish theater actor, director, producer and
writer. He was the former son-in-law of Lena Horne as he was married to her
daughter, the journalist and author Gail Lumet Buckley (née Gail Jones). The
couple had two children before divorcing. He has also been married three other
times, including once to Gloria Vanderbilt.
A graduate of the Professional Children's School, Lumet was an actor before he
was a director. Lumet made his stage debut at New York's Yiddish Art Theater at
the age of four and acted in Yiddish theater and on Broadway into the 1950s.
At a press conference following a New York Film Festival press screening of his
2007 film, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Lumet announced his intention to
shoot all future projects on HD instead of film, and predicted that celluloid
would be abandoned by most of the industry within five years.
In the 2002 Sight and Sound Directors' poll, Lumet revealed his top-ten films:
The Best Years of Our Lives, Fanny and Alexander, The Godfather, The Grapes of
Wrath, Intolerance, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ran, Roma, Singin' in the Rain,
and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Name: Sidney Lumet
Born: 25 June 1924 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Sidney Lumet (born June 25, 1924) is an Academy Award-winning American film
director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12
Angry Men (1957), Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and
The Verdict (1982), all of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best
Director. He won an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, for his "brilliant
services to screenwriters, performers, and the art of the motion picture".
Lumet was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Eugenia (née Wermus),
an actress, and Baruch Lumet, a Yiddish theater actor, director, producer and
writer. He was the former son-in-law of Lena Horne as he was married to her
daughter, the journalist and author Gail Lumet Buckley (née Gail Jones). The
couple had two children before divorcing. He has also been married three other
times, including once to Gloria Vanderbilt.
A graduate of the Professional Children's School, Lumet was an actor before he
was a director. Lumet made his stage debut at New York's Yiddish Art Theater at
the age of four and acted in Yiddish theater and on Broadway into the 1950s.
At a press conference following a New York Film Festival press screening of his
2007 film, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Lumet announced his intention to
shoot all future projects on HD instead of film, and predicted that celluloid
would be abandoned by most of the industry within five years.
In the 2002 Sight and Sound Directors' poll, Lumet revealed his top-ten films:
The Best Years of Our Lives, Fanny and Alexander, The Godfather, The Grapes of
Wrath, Intolerance, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ran, Roma, Singin' in the Rain,
and 2001: A Space Odyssey.