(Hollywood Reporter) 11:32 AM 4/9/2011 by Gregg Kilday – Sidney Lumet, who directed such gritty classics as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and Network, died Saturday morning of lymphoma at his home in New York City. He was 86.

Lumet, who received five Oscar nominations for his work, was awarded an honorary Oscar in 2005 for his “brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of motion pictures.”

Born in Philadelphia on June 25, 1924, Lumet grew up in New York, where his father Baruch joined the Yiddish theater. He got his start by directing live TV, and as a film director, he preferred filming in the streets of New York.

His first feature film was the 1957 courtroom drama 12 Angry Men, which followed Henry Fonda and other actors into the jury room.

In the ‘70s, he collaborated with Al Pacino on movies that burrowed into the reality of of New York street life — the cop drama Serpico and the bank heist tale Dog Day Afternoon.

Working from a screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, Lumet served up a satire about the TV business in 1976’s Network that proved in many ways to be prophetic.

His last film was 2007’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, a crime thriller which blended together a robbery gone bad with a family drama.

Lumet was married three times — to Rita Gam, Gloria Vanderbilt and Gail Jones — before marrying his current wife Mary Gimbel in 1980. He is survived by his wife, stepdaughter Leslie Gimbel, stepson Bailey Gimbel and daughters Amy Lumet and Jenny Lumet as well as nine grandchildren and a great grandson.