Sydney Pollack
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 1, 1934, Lafayette, Indiana, USA
- Died
- May 26, 2008
- Movies
- 109
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).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2018 | Amazing Grace | Director |
| 2011 | Margaret | Producer |
| 2008 | The Reader | Producer |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | Producer |
| 2006 | Breaking and Entering | Producer |
| 2006 | Sketches of Frank Gehry | Director |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | Director |
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | Producer |
| 1999 | Random Hearts | Director, Producer |
| 1998 | Sliding Doors | Producer |
| 1995 | Sabrina | Director, Producer |
| 1993 | The Firm | Director, Producer |
| 1990 | Havana | Director, Producer |
| 1990 | Sanford Meisner Master Class | Director |
| 1990 | Presumed Innocent | Producer |
| 1988 | Bright Lights, Big City | Producer |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Producer, Director |
| 1984 | Songwriter | Producer |
| 1982 | Tootsie | Producer, Director |
| 1981 | Absence of Malice | Director, Producer |
| 1979 | The Electric Horseman | Director |
| 1977 | Bobby Deerfield | Director, Producer |
| 1975 | Three Days of the Condor | Director, Producer |
| 1974 | The Yakuza | Director, Producer |
| 1973 | The Way We Were | Director |
| 1972 | Jeremiah Johnson | Director |
| 1969 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Director |
| 1969 | Castle Keep | Director |
| 1968 | The Scalphunters | Director |
| 1966 | This Property Is Condemned | Director |
| 1965 | The Slender Thread | Director |
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