Sydney Pollack
Directing
- Born:
- 1934-07-01
- Died:
- 2008-05-26
- Place of birth:
- Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Citizen Jane Fonda
Amazing Grace
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
The Story of The Swimmer
Char·ac·ter
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Adapting Austen
A Very Quiet Man
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
Made of Honor
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Michael Clayton
Filmmakers in Action
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Avenue Montaigne
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
One Six Right
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
The Last Mogul
The Interpreter
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
Entourage
Something About Sydney Pollack
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
A Decade Under the Influence
More About the Condor
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Changing Lanes
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
The Majestic
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
A Song of Africa
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
Random Hearts
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Eyes Wide Shut
The Sopranos
The Way We Were: Looking Back
The Directors
A Civil Action
Will & Grace
Independent's Day
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
Just Shoot Me!
King of the Hill
Love in Hollywood
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Inside the Actors Studio
American Cinema
Frasier
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
Mad About You
Husbands and Wives
Death Becomes Her
The Player
Pebble Mill
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Hello Actors Studio
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
Tootsie
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
The Making of 'Tootsie'
The Electric Horseman
The South Bank Show
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Le Grand Échiquier
Great Performances
The Dick Cavett Show
War Hunt
The New Breed
Startime
The Twilight Zone
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Now Is Tomorrow
Have Gun, Will Travel
Playhouse 90
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Golden Globe Awards