 Later that year he appeared in the prison drama "Brubaker" (1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system.As well, his directoral debut, "Ordinary People", which followed the disintegration of an upper-class American family after the death of a son, was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars, including Best Director for Redford himself, and Best Picture.Soon after that, he starred in the baseball drama "The Natural" (1984).