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Sydney Pollack

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Birthday July 1, 1934 (91 years old)

Place of Birth Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Also Known As Sidney Pollack, Sydney Irwin Pollack

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Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Pollack is known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films. During his forty-year career, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards.

Pollack won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for Out of Africa (1985). He was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and Tootsie (1982). Pollack's other notable films include Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), The Yakuza (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Absence of Malice (1981), The Firm (1993), and Sabrina (1995).

Pollack produced and acted in Michael Clayton (2007), and he produced numerous films including The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Iris (2001), Cold Mountain (2003) and The Reader (2008). Pollack acted in Robert Altman's The Player (1992), Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1993), and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

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Filmography (100)

John Candy: I Like Me 2025

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die 2020

Citizen Jane Fonda 2020

Amazing Grace 2018

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles 2014

The Story of The Swimmer 2014

Char·ac·ter 2012

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood 2009

Adapting Austen 2009

A Very Quiet Man 2009

Made of Honor 2008

A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' 2008

Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence 2008

Michael Clayton 2007

Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' 2007

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' 2007

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick 2007

Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 2007

Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick 2007

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 2007

Avenue Montaigne 2006

Sketches of Frank Gehry 2006

Filmmakers in Action 2006

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light 2006

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters 2006

One Six Right 2005

The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz 2005

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons 2005

The Interpreter 2005

The Last Mogul 2005

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz 2004

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand 2004

Something About Sydney Pollack 2004

A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard' 2004

In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema 2004

Entourage 2004

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin 2003

A Decade Under the Influence 2003

More About the Condor 2003

Changing Lanes 2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller 2002

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories 2002

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul 2001

The Majestic 2001

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures 2001

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" 2001

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand 2001

Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma 2000

Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' 2000

A Song of Africa 2000

Eyes Wide Shut 1999

Random Hearts 1999

The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' 1999

The Way We Were: Looking Back 1999

The Sopranos 1999

The Directors 1999

A Civil Action 1998

Independent's Day 1998

Will & Grace 1998

The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson 1997

King of the Hill 1997

Just Shoot Me! 1997

Love in Hollywood 1996

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach 1996

Inside the Actors Studio 1994

American Cinema 1994

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O 1993

Frasier 1993

The Player 1992

Husbands and Wives 1992

Death Becomes Her 1992

Mad About You 1992

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star 1991

Pebble Mill 1991

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret 1990

Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies 1990

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre 1989

Hello Actors Studio 1988

Barbra Streisand: One Voice 1986

Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album 1986

Tootsie 1982

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady 1982

The Making of 'Tootsie' 1982

The Electric Horseman 1979

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche 1975

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor 1973

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks 1973

Le Grand Échiquier 1972

Great Performances 1971

The Dick Cavett Show 1968

War Hunt 1962

The New Breed 1961

For Whom the Bell Tolls 1959

The Twilight Zone 1959

Startime 1959

Have Gun, Will Travel 1957

Playhouse 90 1956

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955

Golden Globe Awards 1944

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