Pairography

Pair · Actor and director

Robert Redford made Ordinary People with Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland appears in Ordinary People (1980), directed by Robert Redford.

Redford was credited with obtaining a powerful dramatic performance from Mary Tyler Moore, as well as superb work from Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

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Robert Redford

1936–2025
  • Actor and director

American actor and director, born in Santa Monica. Won the Academy Award for Best Director, the Academy Honorary Award, the Directors Guild of America Award and one other major prize. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

The film

By release year
  1. 1980 · Drama · 124 min · United States

    Ordinary People

    Robert Redford: director · Donald Sutherland: actor

    Music: Marvin Hamlisch

    Camera: John Bailey

    Written by: Alvin Sargent, Judith Guest

    Produced by: Ronald L. Schwary

    Academy Award for Best Picture · Academy Award for Best Director · Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor · Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Worked with both

  • Jane Fonda5 films with Robert Redford, 2 with Donald Sutherland
  • Robert Duvall2 films with Robert Redford, 4 with Donald Sutherland
  • Woody Harrelson1 film with Robert Redford, 4 with Donald Sutherland
  • Stanley Tucci1 film with Robert Redford, 4 with Donald Sutherland
  • Brad Pitt3 films with Robert Redford, 1 with Donald Sutherland
  • Morgan Freeman3 films with Robert Redford, 1 with Donald Sutherland