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Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack

Birthday: 1934-07-01 | Place of Birth: Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2009
Adapting Austen

as    Self

2009
A Very Quiet Man

as    Self

2007
Avenue Montaigne

as    Brian Sobinski

2007
Michael Clayton

as    Marty Bach

2007
2006
Sketches of Frank Gehry

as    Self

2005
One Six Right

as    Himself

2005
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz

as    Narrator (voice)

2005
The Last Mogul

as    Self

2004
2003
2002
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

as    Narrator (voice)

2002
Changing Lanes

as    Stephen Delano

1999
Random Hearts

as    Carl Broman

1999
Eyes Wide Shut

as    Victor Ziegler