All Is Lost
It’s hard to imagine a Hollywood actor who better fits the accepted definition of a leading man, then that of a star, for decades. But there is the other Redford: the demanding director, the visionary, festival founder, and humanist. We pay equal tribute to both.
Winner of the Best Actor Award for Robert Redford, New York Film Critics Circle 2013
Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water after a collision with a shipping container left floating on the high seas. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the face.
J.C. Chandor
J.C. Chandor is an American filmmaker. Margin Call was Chandor's first feature-length film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film, which also won two Independent Spirit Awards, including for Best First Feature. His second feature film, All Is Lost (2013), was screened Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and received critical acclaim, especially for Robert Redford's solo performance. In 2014, Chandor directed Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in A Most Violent Year. He then replaced Kathryn Bigelow as director for the crime film Triple Frontier (2019) for Netflix, and directed Kraven the Hunter (2024), which marked the end of Sony's Spider-Man Universe.
