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Sydney Pollack
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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 (…
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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.
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Sydney Pollack's Filmography
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John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Director (archive footage)
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self (archive footage)
Citizen Jane Fonda
as Self (archive footage)
Amazing Grace
as Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Story of The Swimmer
as Self (archive footage)
Char·ac·ter
as Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
as Self
No Poster
Adapting Austen
as Self
No Poster
A Very Quiet Man
as Self
Made of Honor
as Thomas Sr.
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
as Self
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
as Self
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
as Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
as Self
Michael Clayton
as Marty Bach
Filmmakers in Action
as Self
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
as Self
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self
Sketches of Frank Gehry
as Self
Avenue Montaigne
as Brian Sobinski
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
as Narrator (voice)
One Six Right
as Self
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self
The Last Mogul
as Self
The Interpreter
as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
No Poster
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
as Self
No Poster
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
as Self
Something About Sydney Pollack
as Self
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
as Self
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
as Self
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
as Narrator
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
No Poster
More About the Condor
as Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Narrator (voice)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
as Self
Changing Lanes
as Stephen Delano
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
as Self
The Majestic
as Studio Executive (voice)
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
as Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
as self
No Poster
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
as Self
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
as Self
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
as Self
A Song of Africa
as Self
No Poster
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
as Self
Random Hearts
as Carl Broman
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
as Self
Eyes Wide Shut
as Victor Ziegler
The Way We Were: Looking Back
as Self
A Civil Action
as Al Eustis
Independent's Day
as Self
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
as Self
Love in Hollywood
as Self
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
as Self
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
as Self
Husbands and Wives
as Jack
Death Becomes Her
as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
The Player
as Dick Mellen
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
as Self
No Poster
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
No Poster
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
as Self
Tootsie
as George Fields
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
as Self
The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
The Electric Horseman
as Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
as Narrator (voice)
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self - Narrator (voice)
War Hunt
as Sgt. Owen Van Horn
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Andres
Now Is Tomorrow
as Capt. Stein