
Place of Birth:
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Date of Birth:
7/1/1934
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.

Eyes Wide Shut

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Changing Lanes

Avenue Montaigne

The Player

Made of Honor

Michael Clayton

War Hunt

A Civil Action

Random Hearts

Tootsie
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

Husbands and Wives

Love in Hollywood

One Six Right

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'

Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

Char·ac·ter

Hello Actors Studio

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Death Becomes Her

The Electric Horseman
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Something About Sydney Pollack

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

A Decade Under the Influence

Independent's Day

A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'

The Majestic

The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz

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

Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

Filmmakers in Action

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"

The Interpreter

A Song of Africa

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

The Way We Were: Looking Back

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

The Last Mogul

The Story of The Swimmer

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
More About the Condor

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Adapting Austen
A Very Quiet Man
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema

The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson

John Candy: I Like Me