- Home
- Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack
Known for: DirectingSydney 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 44
Eyes Wide Shut
as Victor Ziegler 
Michael Clayton
as Marty Bach 
The Interpreter
Director 
The Reader
Producer 
Cold Mountain
Producer 
Made of Honor
as Thomas Sr. 
The Firm
Director, Producer 
Out of Africa
Director, Producer 
Changing Lanes
as Stephen Delano 
The Player
as Dick Mellen 
Presumed Innocent
Producer 
Three Days of the Condor
Director, Producer 
Margaret
Producer 
Random Hearts
as Carl Broman 
The Way We Were
Director 
Sabrina
Director, Producer 
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Director 
Sliding Doors
Producer 
Tootsie
as George Fields 
A Civil Action
as Al Eustis 
Jeremiah Johnson
Director 
Breaking and Entering
Producer 
The Yakuza
Director, Producer 
Husbands and Wives
as Jack 
The Scalphunters
Director 
Absence of Malice
Director, Producer 
The Electric Horseman
Director 
Amazing Grace
as Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited) 
Bright Lights, Big City
Producer 
Castle Keep
Director 
Bobby Deerfield
Director, Producer 
This Property Is Condemned
Director 
Havana
Director, Producer 
The Slender Thread
Director 
Avenue Montaigne
as Brian Sobinski 
War Hunt
as Sgt. Owen Van Horn 
Sketches of Frank Gehry
as Self 
One Six Right
as Self 
Citizen Jane Fonda
as Self (archive footage) 
Char·ac·ter
as Self 
Songwriter
Producer 
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
as Self