His career boasts acclaimed performances in The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
He won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People, and he's starred alongside actresses such as Meryl Streep and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Hands down, Robert Redford has made an epic journey through Hollywood.
The next stop on his journey: Penn's very own Zellerbach Auditorium.
Accompanied by co-stars Michael Pena, Derek Luke and Andrew Garfield from his latest movie, Lions for Lambs, Redford is scheduled to screen his latest flick Oct. 10 at 7:00 p.m.
He will host a question-and-answer session following the screening to talk about the content and production of the film, moderated by Fels Institute of Government Director Don Kettl.
"It's a great chance for students to ask questions and get answers from somebody who has done a lot in Hollywood," SPEC Film Society Co-director and Engineering junior Jeff Lee said.
Lions for Lambs is the tale of a professor (Redford) and a journalist (Streep) whose lives intertwine with the war story of two soldiers struggling in Afghanistan.
"He brings a political message in his film which is very relevant to what's been going on in the world," Lee said.
"The movie takes the emotion of war as well as the bureaucratic aspect of American policy and ties it together," said College junior Boris Fedorov, who serves as co-director of SPEC's Film Society.
Free tickets to the event will be distributed to the Penn community via an online lottery, which opens today on SPEC's Web site, Specevents.net.
The lottery will close Oct. 3, and winners are entitled to two tickets; they will be available for pickup on Oct. 4, 5 and 7 outside the Office of Student Life.
Last year, SPEC Film Society welcomed actors Bam Margera and Johnny Knoxville for the screening of Jackass Number Two, as well as David Cross and Jon Benjamin for the screening of Comedy Central's Freak Show.
Fedorov said previous stars like Margera and Cross were more relaxed and were targeted at a younger demographic, but Redford's four-decade career makes him a standout.
"It's hard to find someone that hasn't seen a Redford movie or a movie that he's directly influenced," Fedorov said. "I can't think of a better person to kick off the year for the Penn community."
