Robert Redford's Success and Achievements in Timeline

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Robert Redford

A success timeline featuring the most significant achievements of Robert Redford.

Robert Redford was a highly acclaimed American actor, director, and producer prominent during the American New Wave. His illustrious career, extending over six decades, garnered numerous prestigious accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and multiple Golden Globe Awards. He received several honors, such as the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, an Honorary Academy Award, Kennedy Center Honors, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and an Honorary César Award.

2016: Presidential Medal of Freedom

After Robert Redford was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, The Salt Lake Tribune called Redford's Sundance Film Festival a "catalyst for an explosion of independent films".

2016: Obama Calls Redford Conservationist

In 2016, then-president Barack Obama called Robert Redford "one of the foremost conservationists of our generation".