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Sidney Lumet

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Also known as Sidney Arthur Lumet

American director, producer and screenwriter (1924–2011)

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Sidney Lumet was a male person associated with Estonia. His work period began in 1930 and ended in 2007. He was born in 1924 and died in 2011.

His notable works include ʻOśim seraṭim, Murder on the Orient Express, The verdict, The Wiz, and Asi Se Hacen Las Peliculas. He is listed as an author in the Open Library, which records eight works. Crossref lists five works.

In music databases, he has 768 listeners and a playcount of 2148. He is referenced by 1,232 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1924
Works
8

Top works

  • ʻOśim seraṭim
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • The verdict
  • The Wiz
  • Asi Se Hacen Las Peliculas

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Estonia
Active from
1907-05-29
Active to
1981-07-25

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
768
Total plays
2,148

Sidney Arthur Lumet (pron.: /luːˈmɛt/ loo-MET; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976), and The Verdict (1982). He did not win an individual Academy Award, but he did receive an Academy Honorary Award and 14 of his films were nominated for various Oscars, such as Network, which was nominated for 10,

via Last.fm · Sidney Lumet

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

    · 2012 · cited 17,974x

  2. Harmonizing the Metabolic Syndrome

    · 2009 · cited 12,625x

  3. Studies of Illness in the Aged

    · 1963 · cited 9,729x

  4. Diagnosis and Management of the Metabolic Syndrome

    · 2005 · cited 9,442x

  5. Voice and Equality

    · 1995 · cited 6,516x

via Crossref · CC0

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Encyclopedic overview

Sidney Arthur Lumet (/luːˈmɛt/ loo-MET; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American film director. Lumet started his career in theatre before moving to directing television in 1950, and then directing films from 1957, where he gained a reputation for making realistic and gritty New York dramas that focused on the working class, tackled social injustices, and often questioned authority. He received various accolades including an Academy Honorary Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for nine British Academy Film Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.

He was nominated five times for Academy Awards: four for Best Director for the legal drama 12 Angry Men (1957), the crime drama Dog Day Afternoon (1975), the satirical drama Network (1976) and the legal thriller The Verdict (1982), and won for Best Adapted Screenplay for Prince of the City (1981). Other films include A View from the Bridge (1962), Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), The Pawnbroker (1964), Fail Safe (1964), The Hill (1965), Serpico (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Equus (1977), The Wiz (1978), The Morning After (1986), Running on Empty (1988) and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007). He received the Academy Honorary Award in 2004.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sidney Lumet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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