Sidney Lumet - Milestones

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• 2001: Returned to TV directing for first time in over 40 years at helm of pilot for A&E series "100 Centre Street"; also penned script for first of 13 episodes and served as executive producer of series which ran for two seasons
• 1999: Helmed unsuccessful remake of John Cassavetes' "Gloria", starring Sharon Stone in role originated by Gena Rowlands
• 1997: Released "Critical Care" with a cast that included James Spader, Albert Brooks, Helen Mirren and Anne Bancroft
• 1996: Directed revised version of Ozick's play (retitled "The Shawl") Off-Off-Broadway
• 1996: Returned again to the world of power and betrayal among NYC cops, directing "Night Falls on Manhattan"; also received solo screenwritng credit
• 1995: Wrote primer on filmmaking "Making Movies"
• 1995: Directed premiere of Cynthia Ozick's play "Blue Light" at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, New York
• 1990: First film as solo writer (also director), "Q & A"
• 1988: Scored modest success with superb, small-scale "Running on Empty"
• 1982: Received fourth Best Director Oscar nomination for the David Mamet-scripted "The Verdict", starring Paul Newman
• 1981: Continued fascination with NYC police corruption with "Prince of the City"; first screenwriting credit; earned Academy Award nomination
• 1980: Formed second production company, LAH Film Group, with screenwriter Jay Presson Allen and producer Burtt Harris; first LAH film, "Just Tell Me What You Want"
• 1978: Worst career choice, directing mega-bomb "The Wiz"; cast then-mother-in-law Lena Horne as Glinda, the good Witch
• 1976: Scored fourth commercial and critical triumph in as many years with the brilliant satire on TV "Network"; received third Best Director Oscar nomination; Faye Dunaway (Best Actress), Peter Finch (Best Actor), Beatrice Straight (Best Supporting Actress) and Paddy Chayefsky (Best Screenplay) all won Oscars
• 1975: Earned second Oscar nomination for Best Director for "Dog Day Afternoon", starring Pacino
• 1974: Helmed the star-studded blockbuster "Murder on the Orient Express"
• 1973: Resurrected career with the huge hit "Serpico", starring Al Pacino
• 1966: First feature as producer (also director; production company), "The Deadly Affair" (Great Britain)
• 1965: British directing debut, "The Hill"
• 1965: Enjoyed commercial success with "The Pawnbroker"; technical breakthrough used to achieve Sol Nazerman's "awakening" came to be called "subliminal" cutting
• 1964: First film directed for production company "Fail Safe"
• 1957: Feature film directing debut, "12 Angry Men" (screenplay by Reginald Rose, based on his earlier teleplay); earned Academy Award nomination as Best Director
• 1951: Graduated to director as replacement for Yul Brynner
• 1950: Joined CBS-TV as assistant director
• 1948: Final Broadway acting performance in "Seeds in the Wind"
• 1948: Taught acting at High School for the Performing Arts in New York City
• 1947: Founded own experimental acting group in Greenwich Village; began to direct Off-Broadway
• 1939: Only screen credit as an actor, "One Third of a Nation"; had played in Broadway version earlier in the year
• 1938: Acted on Broadway in "Sunup to Sundown", directed by Joseph Losey
• 1935: Broadway acting debut, Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End"
• From 1931 to 1932: Performed in Yiddish radio serial, "The Rabbi from Brownsville", a real Lumet family affair; Baruch Lumet wrote, directed and acted the leading man and grandfather while Eugenia played the leading lady and Sidney, the son; their efforts earned the family $35 per week
• 1926: Moved to New York with family
• During 1960s and 1970s made a number of British-produced features
• Appeared on stage at age four
• Became leading live TV director, working on such series as "Danger", "You Are There", "Kraft Television Theater" and "Playhouse 90"
• Served in Far East as radar repairman for US Army Signal Corps
• Directed such Broadway productions as "The Doctor's Dilemma" (1955), "Caligula" (1960) and "Nowhere to Go but Up" (1962)
• Formed first production company, Sidney Lumet Productions