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Sydney Pollack

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sydney Pollack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

On screen

  • 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
  • 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
  • Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
  • Something About Sydney Pollack
  • A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
  • Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
  • A Decade Under the Influence
  • Changing Lanes
  • The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
  • AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
  • The Majestic
  • Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
  • The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
  • AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
  • Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
  • Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
  • A Song of Africa
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Random Hearts
  • The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
  • The Way We Were: Looking Back
  • A Civil Action
  • Independent's Day
  • The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
  • Love in Hollywood
  • Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
  • Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
  • The Player
  • Husbands and Wives
  • Death Becomes Her
  • Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
  • Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
  • 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 Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
  • The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
  • War Hunt
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • Now Is Tomorrow

Behind the camera

  • 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

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