Robert Redford, actor, director, producer, and Hollywood icon, has died at age 89.

Redford is best known for starring in films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, The Way We Were, and Out of Africa. He won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People in 1980.

Redford founded the Sundance Institute, named after his character in Butch Cassidy, in Utah in 1981 to support independent and emerging talent. The Sundance Film Festival became one of the industry’s most influential events and a launchpad for talent such as Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, and Darren Aronofsky.

He was also an environmental activist, championing causes like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Wildlife Federation.

Over the course of his care

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