All the President’s Men was an unlikely hit, but they were unlikely times. When Robert Redford set out to dramatize the way in which two junior journalists pulled down a corrupt U.S. administration, he wasn’t thinking in terms of the success he achieved. But All the President’s Men won four Oscars after its release on April 9, 1976 – and it’s generally accepted that it should have won more. On the surface, it sounded like a worthy project. The narrative followed Washington Post newsmen Bob Woodward (Bernstein) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) – relatively low-key local reporters who didn’t like each other much – as their workmanlike process connected the burglary of an office in the Watergate building to the office of Richard Nixon, ultimately forcing the president's resignation.