Sidney Lumet

Five-time Academy Award Best Director-nominee Sidney Lumet has been a prominent American filmmaker since the 1950s. He has directing credit on over fifty films.

In the 1970s, Lumet directed both Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Both films were critically praised and noted for their wry sense of humor, while dealing with issues such as suicide, violence and homosexuality.

Lumet's feature film debut, 12 Angry Men won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and earned him his first Best Director nomination. The film began Lumet's often-used theme of claustrophobic spaces to create tension and suspense. The film is ranked as #12 on the IMDb Top 250 and has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film also earned Henry Fonda a BAFTA award for "Best Foreign Actor."

• In alphabetical order:

1. The Best Years of Our Lives
2. Fanny and Alexander
3. The Godfather
4. The Grapes of Wrath
5. Intolerance
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc
7. Ran
8. Roma
9. Singin' in the Rain
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• June 25, 1924: Born

• 2007: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

• 2006: Find Me Guilty

• 1999: Gloria

• 1993: Guilty as Sin

• 1992: A Stranger Among Us

• 1990: Q & A

• 1988: Running on Empty

• 1982: The Verdict

• 1981: Prince of the City

• 1978: The Wiz

• 1976: Network

• 1975: Dog Day Afternoon

• 1974: Murder on the Orient Express

• 1973: Serpico

• 1965: The Hill

• 1964: Fail-Safe

• 1964: The Pawnbroker

• 1962: Long Day's Journey Into Night

• 1957: 12 Angry Men