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Monday was, according to reports, a grand night for Robert Redford — who was honored at the 42nd annual Chaplin Gala from the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Stars Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda and Elisabeth Moss — all of whom have acted with Redford in films — were on hand to toast the 78-year-old actor/director/producer and Sundance Institute founder. (For full details, read Eric Kohn's account for IndieWire or Scott Feinberg's article in The Hollywood Reporter.)

So was director J.C. Chandor, who spoke movingly about their work on the one-man survival drama "All Is Lost," and documentarian Laura Poitras ("CitizenFour"), who credited the Sundance lab for helping her during editing of her 2005 film "My Country, My Country." Quentin Tarantino (who brought "Reservoir Dogs" to the Sundance lab) and George Lucas weighed in via video.

One tribute was especially touching. On Monday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center posted online an essay to accompany the gala — a moving appreciation of Redford's career written by critic Richard Corliss, who died Thursday at the age of 71.

Redford, though, the last word. "To me, not taking a risk is taking a risk," Redford said. "For me, it's [winning is] really the climb up the mountain, not so much standing at the top, because at that point there's nowhere to go."