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Sydney Pollack
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).
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As director
Amazing Grace
Sketches of Frank Gehry
The Interpreter
Random Hearts
Sabrina
The Firm
Havana
Sanford Meisner Master Class
Out of Africa
Tootsie
Absence of Malice
The Electric Horseman
Bobby Deerfield
Three Days of the Condor
The Yakuza
The Way We Were
Jeremiah Johnson
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Castle Keep
The Scalphunters
This Property Is Condemned
The Slender Thread
As actor
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
Made of Honor
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Michael Clayton
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
Avenue Montaigne
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Filmmakers in Action
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
One Six Right
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
The Interpreter
The Last Mogul
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz