Lumet, Sidney Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The 84th Annual Academy Awards

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Memorial Tribute
• Play in Full Screen The Orange British Academy Film Awards

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Memorial Tribute
• Play in Full Screen LaBrava

  2009, role: director
• Play in Full Screen In Her Skin

  2009, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Getting Out

  2009, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Getting Out

  2009, role: director
• Play in Full Screen I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 10 Top 10: America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 17th Annual Gotham Awards

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Al Pacino

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

  2007, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Whistle

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Prince of the City: The Real Story

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Paul Newman: The Craft of Acting

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Milestones in Cinema History: The Verdict

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Whistle

  2007, role: director
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 'Network': The Style

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 'Network': The Experience

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Find Me Guilty

  2006, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Find Me Guilty

  2006, role: director
• Play in Full Screen 'Network': The Cast, the Characters

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 'Dog Day Afternoon': After the Filming

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 'Dog Day Afternoon': Recreating the Facts

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 'Network': Mad as Hell - The Creation of a Movie Moment

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 'Dog Day Afternoon': Casting the Controversy

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 'Network': The World and Words of Paddy Chayefsky

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Based on a True Story

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 77th Annual Academy Awards

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Honorary Award Recipient
• Play in Full Screen Making 'Murder on the Orient Express'

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Rachel, quand du seigneur

  2004, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Finding Eleazar

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Manchurian Candidate

  2004, role: actor , character name: Political Pundit
• Play in Full Screen Strip Search

  2004, role: director
• Play in Full Screen A Decade Under the Influence

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Spike Lee's '25th Hour': The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Tramp and the Dictator

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 'Serpico': From Real to Reel

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sean Connery, an Intimate Portrait

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 'Serpico': Favorite Moments

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Inside 'Serpico'

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen New York at the Movies

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 100 Centre Street

  2001, role: director
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director, 'Fail Safe'
• Play in Full Screen Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Sidney Lumet:

"I thought back to the O.J. Simpson trial. I would have voted him guilty. But there was no doubt that Johnnie Cochran overwhelmed the jury."

"I knew I wasn't buying a pig in a poke. I knew how good he was."

"We all have a prejudice about action films. It's sort of like, if they're beautiful and blonde, she can't act, and we should know better by now. I've heard it from people, 'What are you doing, doing a picture with Vin Diesel?' They're not giving him the credit he deserves. Sometimes, I just say, 'Wait till you see him in the picture."

"That's the only part of 'Network' that hasn't happened yet, and that's on its way."

"We're all, and I include myself in this, big snobs about action heroes, we relegate them. It's what we used to do with beautiful actresses ... if you're an action hero and a star it means you cannot act - and all of this despite the fact that we know different."

"We're all, and I include myself in this, big snobs about action heroes, we relegate them. It's what we used to do with beautiful actresses... if you're an action hero and a star it means you cannot act -- and all of this despite the fact that we know different."

"People make the great mistake with action heroes. They think that because generally the plots are simpler and their behavior is one-note that they can't act. But most of the time they can."

"Galvin uses the word 'faith' several times in his summation to the jury, ... He says, 'In my faith, we are told you have only to act as if you have faith and faith will be given you.... You have only to act with justice,' and so on. He is using 'faith' absolutely synonymously with 'love.'"

"there is no justice without love."

"All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen."

"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."