When “A River Runs Through It” was released, Robert Redford had been a Hollywood star for 25 years, as his breakthrough film “Barefoot in the Park” was released in 1967. Even after he started directing, Redford continued to make screen appearances. While he acted less frequently in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, he still retained his star power. He followed “A River Runs Through It” with the starring role in “Indecent Proposal” in 1993, which became one of that year’s ten highest-grossing films in domestic box office (via Box Office Mojo). Since “Indecent Proposal,” he has also starred in films like 2001’s “Spy Game,” a reunion of him and “A River Runs Through It” actor Brad Pitt, and 2013’s “All is Lost,” for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. He also continued to make his mark on film off-camera, heading the Sundance Film Festival, which premiered films from breakout directors like Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino.
After “A River Runs Through It” was released, Redford kept directing, making six more films and receiving best picture and best director nominations for his follow-up directorial effort, the 1994 film “Quiz Show.” Those would be the final competitive Oscar nominations of his career, with an honorary award in 2002 being his last Oscar of any kind. He continued to act until the 2010s, when he retired following the production of 2018’s “The Old Man and the Gun.” His final screen appearance was in an easy-to-miss cameo in “Avengers: Endgame,” where he reprised the role of Alexander Pierce from “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”
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