Sydney Pollack
- Directing
- July 1, 1934 · Lafayette, Indiana, USA
- May 26, 2008
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.
Known for
Filmography
- John Candy: I Like Me · Self
- Babenco: Tell Me When I Die · Self
- Citizen Jane Fonda · Self
- Amazing Grace · Self, Director
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles · Self
- The Story of The Swimmer · Self
- Char·ac·ter · Self
- Silver Linings Playbook · Thanks
- Margaret · Producer
- Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood · Self
- Adapting Austen · Self
- A Very Quiet Man · Self
- The Reader · Producer
- Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence · Self
- Recount · Executive producer
- Made of Honor · Thomas Sr.
- Leatherheads · Executive producer
- A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' · Self
- James Taylor | One Man Band · Executive producer
- Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' · Self
- View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' · Self
- The Visions of Stanley Kubrick · Self
- Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 · Self
- Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick · Self
- Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 · Self
- Michael Clayton · Marty Bach, Producer
- Breaking and Entering · Producer
- Catch a Fire · Executive producer
- Filmmakers in Action · Self
- Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light · Self
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters · Self
- Sketches of Frank Gehry · Self, Director
- Avenue Montaigne · Brian Sobinski
- Forty Shades of Blue · Executive producer
- The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz · Narrator (Voice)
- One Six Right · Self
- Filmmakers vs. Tycoons · Self
- The Last Mogul · Self
- The Interpreter · Jay Pettigrew (uncredited), Executive producer
- Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz · Self
- In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema · Self
- Entourage · Sydney Pollack
- Something About Sydney Pollack · Self
- A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard' · Self
- Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand · Self
- Cold Mountain · Producer
- Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin · Narrator
- A Decade Under the Influence · Self
- In the Name of Love · Executive producer
- More About the Condor · Self
- The Quiet American · Executive producer
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller · Narrator (Voice)
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories · Self
- Changing Lanes · Stephen Delano
- Heaven · Executive producer
- Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot · Self
- The Majestic · Studio Executive (Voice)
- Iris · Executive producer
- Birthday Girl · Executive producer
- The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" · Self
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand · Self
- Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul · Self
- Blow Dry · Executive producer
- Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film · Self
- Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' · Self
- Up at the Villa · Executive producer
- A Song of Africa · Self
- Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma · Self
- The Talented Mr. Ripley · Executive producer
- Random Hearts · Carl Broman, Producer
- The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' · Self
- Eyes Wide Shut · Victor Ziegler
- The Sopranos · Warren Feldman
- The Way We Were: Looking Back · Self
- The Directors · Self
- A Civil Action · Al Eustis
- Will & Grace · George Truman
- Poodle Springs · Executive producer
- Sliding Doors · Producer
- Independent's Day · Self