Biography
Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, writer and producer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Best Director for All the President's Men (1976) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sophie's Choice (1982). Pakula was also notable for directing his "paranoia trilogy": Klute (1971), The Parallax View (1974) and All the President's Men (1976). Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan J. Pakula, l...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
2020
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Meryl Streep is one of the most versatile and successful actresses of all time and is still considered a superstar after 50 years of career. She fasci...
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
as Self (archive footage)
"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was...
Fearful Symmetry
1998
as Self
A documentary about the making of "To Kill a Mockingbird."
The Devil's Own
1997
Director
Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to bu...
The Pelican Brief
1993
Producer, Screenplay, Director
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
Consenting Adults
1992
Producer, Director
Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy and...
Presumed Innocent
1990
Director, Screenplay
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fig...
See You in the Morning
1989
Director, Writer, Producer
Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young wi...
Orphans
1987
Producer, Director
Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.
Dream Lover
1986
Director, Producer
After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in ...
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
as Self
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
Sophie's Choice
1982
Screenplay, Director, Producer
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns...
Rollover
1981
Director
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
Starting Over
1979
Director, Producer
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
Comes a Horseman
1978
Director
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her ne...
All the President's Men
1976
Director
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
1976
as Self
Hoffman, Redford, Bernstein, Woodward, Pakula and Bradlee. Creators and creatures involved in one way or another with 'All the President's Men', wheth...
The Parallax View
1974
Director, Producer
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corpora...
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
1973
Director, Producer
While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Walter, the aimless young son of a doctor, makes the acquaintance of proper, middle-aged, clumsy and ...
'Klute' in New York
1971
as Self
A closer look at the making of "Klute" (1971). The project follows the complex shooting on multiple locations in New York with major stars Jane Fonda ...
Klute
1971
Producer, Director
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
The Sterile Cuckoo
1969
Director, Producer
Uptight college freshman Jerry Payne finds a carefree friend in zany Pookie. After an awkward meeting on the bus, Pookie quickly works her way into Je...
The Stalking Moon
1968
Producer
While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sa...
Up the Down Staircase
1967
Producer
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an ...
Inside Daisy Clover
1965
Producer
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Baby the Rain Must Fall
1965
Producer
Henry Thomas tries to overcome the horrors of his childhood and start a new life with his wife and kid. However, his abusive step-mother and his depen...
Love with the Proper Stranger
1963
Producer
Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz m...
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
Producer
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their recl...
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Self (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...
Fear Strikes Out
1957
Producer
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.