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Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career, he won several film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1980 film Ordinary People. He also received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2016 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a re-union with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. He received a second Academy Award—for Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He additionally won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.
No more mutants, tree words which changed world, 90% of mutants lost abilities. Wanda disappeared and is presumed dead. This day went down in history as M-Day - the mutant genocide. 1944 Nazi-occupied Poland, 13-year-old Erik Lehnsherr is separated from his parents in Auschwitz. While attempting to reach them, he causes a set of metal gates to bend towards him because of his mutant ability to generate magnetic fields. In the present Senator Robert Kelly attempts to pass a Mutant Registration Act in Congress, which forces mutants to reveal their identities and abilities. Present is Lehnsherr, known as Magneto, and his telepathic colleague Professor X. In the world, children are born with a special X-factor that gives them supernatural strength. Marie accidentally puts her boyfriend into a coma after she kisses him, her new name is Rogue and she meets Logan, then Strom and Cyclops. Senator Kelly is abducted by Brotherhood members Toad and Mystique. Magneto experiments on him and gives him mutant powers. Professor X sets up a special school and his intention is to teach mutants to handle their abilities in a way that humans will not fear them. Not all mutants are willing to adapt, they don't believe humans and mutants can live together. Now the X-men must protect humanity from these creatures, cause Magneto has sinister intentions. Both teams are fighting on the Statue of Liberty. X-Men won thanks to Quicksilver and Wanda who were alive all the time. Magneto is imprisoned.
