Remembering 2025’s Losses: Robert Redford
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (84217)
United States
January 18, 2026 10:54am CST
NOW you’re starting to worry. If this guy isn’t top ten, then what is? 
Oh, come on, you know me better than that. This is definitely one of the biggest celebrity losses of 2025, and there’s no way I’m not going to honor him.
Robert Redford
Robert Redford. That’s all you have to say. What didn’t this man do? He was an acclaimed actor. He was an acclaimed director. He was an acclaimed environmentalist. He was an acclaimed champion of the independent film makers.
I want y’all to sit down, because you’re NOT going to believe this. Think of his iconic roles: the Sundance Kid, Jeremiah Johnson, Bob Woodward, Johnny Hooker…and yet, the man NEVER won an acting Oscar. Never. He was given an honorary Academy Award in 2002; however, his only “competitive” Oscar, where he was nominated, was won for directing the film Ordinary People. Wowza.
That’s okay. He had something more significant: status. His name meant box office success. His voice meant exposure to causes. And his establishment of the Sundance Film Festival meant that independent filmmakers were given legitimacy.
I truly believe motion pictures, especially the independent film industry, would be completely different if Robert Redford hadn’t happened along.
Robert Redford
Born Charles Robert Redford, Jr., August 18, 1936, Santa Monica, California
Died September 16, 2025, Sundance, Utah (natural causes) (age 89)
CBS Sunday Morning’s tribute:
Oh, come on, you know me better than that. This is definitely one of the biggest celebrity losses of 2025, and there’s no way I’m not going to honor him.
Robert Redford
Robert Redford. That’s all you have to say. What didn’t this man do? He was an acclaimed actor. He was an acclaimed director. He was an acclaimed environmentalist. He was an acclaimed champion of the independent film makers.
I want y’all to sit down, because you’re NOT going to believe this. Think of his iconic roles: the Sundance Kid, Jeremiah Johnson, Bob Woodward, Johnny Hooker…and yet, the man NEVER won an acting Oscar. Never. He was given an honorary Academy Award in 2002; however, his only “competitive” Oscar, where he was nominated, was won for directing the film Ordinary People. Wowza.
That’s okay. He had something more significant: status. His name meant box office success. His voice meant exposure to causes. And his establishment of the Sundance Film Festival meant that independent filmmakers were given legitimacy.
I truly believe motion pictures, especially the independent film industry, would be completely different if Robert Redford hadn’t happened along.
Robert Redford
Born Charles Robert Redford, Jr., August 18, 1936, Santa Monica, California
Died September 16, 2025, Sundance, Utah (natural causes) (age 89)
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13 responses
@FourWalls (84217)
• United States
18 Jan
Great actor, great humanitarian. We need more like him.
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@valherma00 (1691)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
18 Jan
very unfortunate he didn't get any oscar. remembering how eastwood waited for his oscars, it all tells about the academy. i must say, i've never seen such a beautiful man, when he was younger. 
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@FourWalls (84217)
• United States
18 Jan
I really thought Paul Newman was better looking. But he WAS handsome, no question.
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@FourWalls (84217)
• United States
18 Jan
He was at an Earth Day event at the University of Illinois one year. I was there for the music.
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@FourWalls (84217)
• United States
18 Jan
One that deserved the attention it received.
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@TheHorse (235860)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Jan
@FourWalls Was it in August?
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@coolimrose (656)
• Australia
19 Jan
@FourWalls isn't that why they are blessed with so much fame and money??
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@FourWalls (84217)
• United States
19 Jan
@coolimrose — some of them don’t think so. God bless the ones who do (like yesterday’s person, who co-founded the Ronald McDonald House for families who have sick children).
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@FourWalls (84217)
• United States
19 Jan
I like seeing people using their fame for good things like he did.
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@FourWalls (84217)
• United States
19 Jan
It’s great to see that, especially in this era.
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@LadyDuck (496154)
• Italy
19 Jan
@FourWalls - You are so right, there are a few generous actors, one is Keanu Reeves and another Willem Dafoe.
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@RasmaSandra (95613)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Jan
First fell in love with him watching Barefoot in the Park,
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@FourWalls (84217)
• United States
18 Jan
Think that was his first movie breakthrough.
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@Traceyjayne (9210)
• United Kingdom
19 Jan
One of my favourites ….Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid being a favourite film.
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@FourWalls (84217)
• United States
18 Jan
I saw Butch & Sundance and part of President’s Men and the Sting.
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@LindaOHio (217094)
• United States
19 Jan
I always applauded his humanitarian efforts.
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@FourWalls (84217)
• United States
19 Jan
Some people buy big mansions. He supported what was important to him.
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@thedevilinme (5004)
• Northampton, England
18 Jan
His looks carrie dhim. OK actor
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@FourWalls (84217)
• United States
18 Jan
I don’t think he was nearly as handsome as Paul Newman was.
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