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

Filmography

• 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)
• Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
• Margaret (2011)
• Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood (2009)
• Adapting Austen (2009)
• A Very Quiet Man (2009)
• The Reader (2008)
• Recount (2008)
• Made of Honor (2008)
• Leatherheads (2008)
• A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' (2008)
• James Taylor | One Man Band (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)
• Michael Clayton (2007)
• Breaking and Entering (2006)
• Catch a Fire (2006)
• Filmmakers in Action (2006)
• Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006)
• Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
• Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006)
• Avenue Montaigne (2006)
• Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
• The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz (2005)
• One Six Right (2005)
• Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005)
• The Last Mogul (2005)
• The Interpreter (2005)
• Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004)
• In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema (2004)
• Something About Sydney Pollack (2004)
• A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard' (2004)
• Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand (2004)
• Cold Mountain (2003)
• Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
• A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
• In the Name of Love (2003)
• More About the Condor (2003)
• The Quiet American (2002)
• The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (2002)
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002)
• Changing Lanes (2002)
• Heaven (2002)
• Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot (2001)
• The Majestic (2001)
• Iris (2001)
• Birthday Girl (2001)
• The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" (2001)
• AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand (2001)
• Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul (2001)
• Blow Dry (2001)
• Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film (2001)
• Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (2000)
• Up at the Villa (2000)
• A Song of Africa (2000)
• Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma (2000)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
• Random Hearts (1999)
• The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
• The Way We Were: Looking Back (1999)
• A Civil Action (1998)
• Poodle Springs (1998)
• Sliding Doors (1998)
• Independent's Day (1998)
• The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson (1997)
• Love in Hollywood (1996)
• Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach (1996)
• Sabrina (1995)
• Sense and Sensibility (1995)
• Red Wind (1995)
• Flesh and Bone (1993)
• Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
• The Firm (1993)
• Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O (1993)
• Husbands and Wives (1992)
• Death Becomes Her (1992)
• A Private Matter (1992)
• The Player (1992)
• Leaving Normal (1992)
• Dead Again (1991)
• Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991)
• King Ralph (1991)
• Havana (1990)
• Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies (1990)
• White Palace (1990)
• Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1990)
• Sanford Meisner Master Class (1990)
• Presumed Innocent (1990)
• The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
• Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (1989)
• Hello Actors Studio (1988)
• Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
• A Tiger's Tale (1988)
• Barbra Streisand: One Voice (1986)
• Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
• Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album (1986)
• Out of Africa (1985)
• Songwriter (1984)
• Tootsie (1982)
• Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982)
• The Making of 'Tootsie' (1982)
• Absence of Malice (1981)
• Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
• The Electric Horseman (1979)
• Bobby Deerfield (1977)
• Three Days of the Condor (1975)
• The Yakuza (1974)
• The Way We Were (1973)
• The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor (1973)
• The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973)
• Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
• Castle Keep (1969)
• The Swimmer (1968)
• The Scalphunters (1968)
• This Property Is Condemned (1966)
• The Slender Thread (1965)
• War Hunt (1962)
• The Young Savages (1961)
• The Turn of the Screw (1959)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1959)
• Now Is Tomorrow (1958)