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.
Filmography (101 titles)
7.9MovieJohn Candy: I Like Me
Self - Director (archive footage) · 2025
7.1MovieBabenco: Tell Me When I Die
Self (archive footage) · 2020
7.8MovieCitizen Jane Fonda
2020
7.2MovieAmazing Grace
Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2018
6.5MovieMagician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) · 2014
MovieThe Story of The Swimmer
Self (archive footage) · 2014
4.0MovieChar·ac·ter
Self · 2012
MovieGlanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Self · 2009
Adapting Austen
Self · 2009
A Very Quiet Man
Self · 2009
7.5ShowElvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
Self · 2008
6.5MovieMade of Honor
Thomas Sr. · 2008
6.0MovieA Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Self · 2008
6.1MovieGreat Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Self · 2007
7.4MovieView from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
Self · 2007
6.9MovieThe Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Self · 2007
6.0MovieVision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Self · 2007
6.9MovieLost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
Self · 2007
6.2MovieStanding on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Self · 2007
6.8MovieMichael Clayton
Marty Bach · 2007
7.2MovieFilmmakers in Action
Self · 2006
7.1MovieFilm Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Self · 2006
6.5MovieBoffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self · 2006
6.9MovieSketches of Frank Gehry
Self · 2006
6.1MovieAvenue Montaigne
Brian Sobinski · 2006
5.3MovieThe Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
Narrator (voice) · 2005
8.0MovieOne Six Right
Self · 2005
6.8MovieFilmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self · 2005
5.5MovieThe Last Mogul
Self · 2005
6.3MovieThe Interpreter
Jay Pettigrew (uncredited) · 2005