Sydney Pollack
Known for: Directing
Born: July 1, 1934
Died: May 26, 2008
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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Filmography
133 movies · 36 TV shows, newest first
7.8
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
7.1
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
7.2
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
7.2
Amazing Grace
2018
6.5
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
NR
The Story of The Swimmer
2014
4.0
Char·ac·ter
2012
7.2
Silver Linings Playbook
2012
6.4
Margaret
2011
NR
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009NR
Adapting Austen
2009NR
A Very Quiet Man
2009
7.5
The Reader
2008
7.5
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
2008
6.8
Recount
2008
6.5
Made of Honor
2008
5.9
Leatherheads
2008
6.0
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008
NR
James Taylor | One Man Band
2007
6.1
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
2007
7.4
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007
6.9
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007
6.0
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007
6.6
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
2007
6.2
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007
6.8
Michael Clayton
2007
6.1
Breaking and Entering
2006
6.3
Catch a Fire
2006
7.2
Filmmakers in Action
2006
7.1
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006
6.5
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
6.9
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006
6.1
Avenue Montaigne
2006
4.5
Forty Shades of Blue
2005
5.3
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
2005
8.0
One Six Right
2005
6.8
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
5.5
The Last Mogul
2005
6.3
The Interpreter
20059.0
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
2004NR
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
2004
7.4
Entourage
2004
8.0
Something About Sydney Pollack
2004
9.0
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
2004
8.1
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004
6.9
Cold Mountain
2003
6.9
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003
7.9
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
10.0
In the Name of Love
20037.0
More About the Condor
2003
6.5
The Quiet American
2002
5.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
7.7
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
6.3
Changing Lanes
2002
6.5
Heaven
2002
7.0
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
2001
6.8
The Majestic
2001
6.4
Iris
2001
5.9
Birthday Girl
2001
6.0
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001
9.0
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
20016.3
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001
5.9
Blow Dry
2001
7.4
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
2001
6.2
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000
5.3
Up at the Villa
2000
8.5
A Song of Africa
20008.0
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
2000
7.2
The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
5.6
Random Hearts
1999
7.7
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
1999
7.5
Eyes Wide Shut
1999
8.7
The Sopranos
1999
9.2
The Way We Were: Looking Back
1999
6.1
The Directors
1999
6.5
A Civil Action
1998
6.9
Will & Grace
1998
5.5
Poodle Springs
1998
6.6
Sliding Doors
1998
6.0
Independent's Day
1998
9.0
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
1997
6.6
Just Shoot Me!
1997
7.4
King of the Hill
1997
10.0
Love in Hollywood
1996
7.7
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996
6.2
Sabrina
1995
7.4
Sense and Sensibility
1995
NR
Red Wind
1995
NR
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
8.3
American Cinema
1994
6.0
Flesh and Bone
1993
7.7
Frasier
1993
7.1
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
6.6
Fallen Angels
1993
6.7
The Firm
1993
8.0
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
1993
6.8
Mad About You
1992
7.0
Husbands and Wives
1992
6.8
Death Becomes Her
1992
5.5
A Private Matter
1992
7.2
The Player
1992
6.0
Leaving Normal
19924.1
Pebble Mill
1991
6.4
Dead Again
1991
7.5
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
5.4
King Ralph
1991
5.8
Havana
1990
NR
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990
6.6
White Palace
1990NR
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
NR
Sanford Meisner Master Class
1990
6.8
Presumed Innocent
1990
6.6
The Fabulous Baker Boys
1989NR
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
6.7
Hello Actors Studio
1988
5.7
Bright Lights, Big City
1988
4.5
A Tiger's Tale
1988
7.6
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
6.1
Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986
9.0
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986
7.2
Out of Africa
1985
5.5
Songwriter
1984
7.2
Tootsie
1982
6.0
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
6.0
The Making of 'Tootsie'
1982
6.6
Absence of Malice
1981
5.4
Honeysuckle Rose
1980
6.1
The Electric Horseman
1979
5.8
Bobby Deerfield
1977
7.3
Three Days of the Condor
1975
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
7.1
The Yakuza
1974
7.0
The Way We Were
1973
6.5
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1973
6.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973
7.3
Jeremiah Johnson
1972
8.0
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
6.1
Great Performances
1971
7.6
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969
5.7
Castle Keep
1969
7.4
The Swimmer
1968
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
6.4
The Scalphunters
1968
6.4
This Property Is Condemned
1966
7.1
The Slender Thread
1965
7.0
Slattery's People
19645.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
7.3
The Fugitive
1963
7.4
Breaking Point
1963
8.3
Arrest and Trial
1963
7.9
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
6.4
War Hunt
1962
5.3
Frontier Circus
1961
7.7
The New Breed
1961
5.9
Ben Casey
1961
5.7
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
5.2
Cain's Hundred
1961
6.3
The Defenders
1961
6.5
The Young Savages
1961
6.9
The Tall Man
1960
7.0
The Turn of the Screw
1959
6.8
Startime
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
NR
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.5
Playhouse 90
1956
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
1944
7.5
Now Is Tomorrow
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