Sidney Lumet dies: Which of his films is your favourite?

Director Sidney Lumet with Al Pacino at the 77th Academy Awards in Hollywood. Pacino starred in Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters)

By CBC News

Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of such acclaimed films as Network, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and 12 Angry Men, has died. He was 86.

Lumet's death was confirmed Saturday by Marc Kusnetz, who is the husband of Lumet's stepdaughter, Leslie Gimbel. He said Lumet died overnight, and had suffered from lymphoma.

A Philadelphia native, Lumet moved to New York City with his family as a child, and it became the location of choice for more than 30 of his films.

He was nominated four times for Academy Awards for directing, and although he never won, Lumet did receive an honorary Oscar in 2005 for lifetime achievement. He also received the Directors Guild of America's prestigious D.W. Griffith Award for lifetime achievement in 1993.

Lumet established himself as an A-list director with his 1957 feature debut 12 Angry Men, which garnered him his first Academy Award nomination. He received other Oscar nominations were for Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982).

Network, a scathing view of the television business, proved to be Lumet's most memorable film and created an enduring catch phrase when crazed newscaster Peter Finch exhorted his audience to raise their windows and shout, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

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