Sydney Pollack
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. For his film Out of Africa (1985), Pollack won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture. He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and Tootsie (1982). Some of his other best-known works include Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Absence of Malice (1981). His subsequent films included Havana (1990), The Firm (1993), The Interpreter (2005), and he produced and acted in Michael Clayton (2007). Pollack also made appearances in Robert Altman's Hollywood mystery The Player (1992), Woody Allen's relationship drama Husbands and Wives (1993), and Stanley Kubrick's erotic psychological drama 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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PHOTOS
TV Series
Mad About You
6.7
Inside the Actors Studio
7.518
The Sopranos
8.7
King of the Hill
7.353
Entourage
7.346
Frasier
7.674
Will & Grace
6.855
The Twilight Zone
8.447
Just Shoot Me!
6.6
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
The New Breed
7
The Directors
5.8
Pebble Mill
3.1
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
7.5
The New Breed
7
Playhouse 90
7.6
Le Grand Échiquier
8
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
6
The Dick Cavett Show
6.7
Great Performances
5.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
Golden Globe Awards
7
Golden Globe Awards
7
Movies
Eyes Wide Shut
7.5
For Whom the Bell Tolls
0
Changing Lanes
6.267
Avenue Montaigne
6.2
The Player
7.207
Made of Honor
6.45
Michael Clayton
6.788
War Hunt
6.5
A Civil Action
6.462
Random Hearts
5.5
Tootsie
7.211
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
0
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
0
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
0
Husbands and Wives
7.011
Love in Hollywood
0
One Six Right
8.143
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
6.875
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
6
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
6.8
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
5.4
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
6
Char·ac·ter
4
Hello Actors Studio
6
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
5.8
Death Becomes Her
6.774
The Electric Horseman
6.088
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
0
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
0
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
6
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
8.1
Sketches of Frank Gehry
6.857
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
7.6
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
7.4
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
6.9
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
6.7
Something About Sydney Pollack
0
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
7
A Decade Under the Influence
8
Independent's Day
5
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
6
The Majestic
6.754
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
7
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
7.7
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
10
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
7.4
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
6
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
6.2
Filmmakers in Action
6.8
Amazing Grace
7.2
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
6.9
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
7.1
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
0
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
6
And the Oscar Goes To...
6.991
The Interpreter
6.309
A Song of Africa
8
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
0
The Way We Were: Looking Back
9.4
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
7
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
7
The Last Mogul
5.333
The Story of The Swimmer
0
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
6.143
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
6.5
More About the Condor
0
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
6.5
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
0