Sydney Pollack

Known for DirectingBorn 1934-07-01Died 2008-05-26Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

In the Name of Love

Love in Hollywood

The Way We Were: Looking Back

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand

Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album

The Sopranos

A Song of Africa

American Cinema

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

The Twilight Zone

John Candy: I Like Me

One Six Right

Something About Sydney Pollack

Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma

Citizen Jane Fonda

The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson

A Decade Under the Influence

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

Arrest and Trial

Le Grand Échiquier

The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

Frasier

Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence

Inside the Actors Studio

The Reader

Eyes Wide Shut

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Entourage

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

King of the Hill

Sense and Sensibility

Amazing Grace

Silver Linings Playbook

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

The New Breed

Filmmakers in Action

Playhouse 90

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light