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Sydney Pollack

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Birthdate

1934-07-01

Day of Death

2008-05-26

Place of Birth

Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Sydney Pollack

Biography

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sydney Pollack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (76)

⭐ 7.8 Role: Self - Director (archive footage)

John Candy: I Like Me

2025
⭐ 7.2 Role: Self (archive footage)

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

2020
⭐ 7.8 Role: Unknown

Citizen Jane Fonda

2020
⭐ 7.1 Role: Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)

Amazing Grace

2018
⭐ 6.5 Role: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

2014
⭐ 0 Role: Self (archive footage)

The Story of The Swimmer

2014
⭐ 4.0 Role: Self

Char·ac·ter

2012
⭐ 0 Role: Self

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

2009
No Image
⭐ 0 Role: Self

Adapting Austen

2009
No Image
⭐ 0 Role: Self

A Very Quiet Man

2009
⭐ 6.4 Role: Thomas Sr.

Made of Honor

2008
⭐ 6.0 Role: Self

A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'

2008
⭐ 6.1 Role: Self

Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

2007
⭐ 7.4 Role: Self

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

2007
⭐ 6.9 Role: Self

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

2007