All the President’s Men | film by Pakula [1976] (original) (raw)

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discussed in biography

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  In Alan J. Pakula: Films of the 1970s
  His next effort, All the President’s Men (1976), was an adaptation of the best-selling book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (played in the movie by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, respectively) about the Watergate scandal. Applying the techniques he had developed in Klute and _The Parallax View_…
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Hoffman

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  In Dustin Hoffman
  …investigate the Watergate scandal in All the President’s Men (1976).
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Holbrook

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  In Hal Holbrook
  …roles included Deep Throat in All the President’s Men (1976), about the Watergate scandal; a wise and experienced broker in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987); and the head of a crime-affiliated law office in The Firm (1993). He took on the role of Lincoln adviser Francis Preston Blairin the acclaimed…
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Oscars to Robards for best supporting actor, to Goldman for best adapted screenplay, and to Jenkins for best art direction, 1976

Redford

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  In Robert Redford
  …but they were overshadowed by All the President’s Men (1976). An account of the downfall of the administration of U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon, the film starred Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. It garnered Oscar nominations in eight categories and firmly established Redford’s…
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Robards

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  In Jason Robards
  …Post editor Ben Bradlee in All the President’s Men (1976) and detective novelist Dashiell Hammett in Julia (1977). He received a third Oscar nomination for his interpretation of yet another “real-life” character, Howard Hughes, in Melvin and Howard (1980). Robards’s later films included Philadelphia (1993),
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screenplay by Goldman

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  In William Goldman
  …adaptation of the Watergate exposé All the President’s Men (1976), which won him his second Academy Award.
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