Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in All the President's Men (1976)

Just two years after the dramatic events of the Watergate scandal led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation, this story of the courageous newspaper investigation that unseated him appeared on the screen. Rarely has a film so literally been “ripped from the headlines,” and even more rarely have investigating reporters become the popular heroes of the story they covered.

Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman are captivating as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, and the script by William Goldman, based upon Woodward and Bernstein’s book of the same name, crackles with the immediacy, tension and urgency of the profound national crisis. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film earned eight Academy Award® nominations and took home four Oscars®; it brings to life a tumultuous and scandalous period in American history whose ghosts remain with us to this day.

Cast Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jane Alexander, Meredith Baxter, Ned Beatty, Stephen Collins, Penny Fuller, John McMartin, Robert Walden, Frank Wills, F. Murray Abraham, David Arkin.

Director Alan J. Pakula; Producer Walter Coblenz; Screenplay William Goldman, based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward; Cinematography Gordon Willis; Film Editor Robert L. Wolfe; Production Designer George Jenkins; Set Decorator George Gaines; Music David Shire; Supervising Sound Editor Milton C. Burrow; Sound Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Jim Webb. A Wildwood Enterprises Production. Warner Bros. Pictures. 35mm. 135 minutes. 1976. Print courtesy of Warner Bros. and the Academy Film Archive.

Academy Award® Winner: Actor in a Supporting Role (Robards), Art Direction (Jenkins, Gaines), Sound (Piantadosi, Fresholtz, Alexander, Webb), Writing – Screenplay based on material from another medium (Goldman).

Academy Award Nominee: Actress in a Supporting Role (Alexander), Directing (Pakula), Film Editing (Wolfe), Best Picture (Coblenz).