Sydney Pollack
Directing
1934-07-01 · 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.
Filmography
John Candy: I Like Me
2025 · Movie
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020 · Movie
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020 · Movie
Amazing Grace
2018 · Movie
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014 · Movie
The Story of The Swimmer
2014 · Movie
Char·ac·ter
2012 · Movie
Silver Linings Playbook
2012 · Movie
Margaret
2011 · Movie
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009 · Movie
Adapting Austen
2009 · Movie
A Very Quiet Man
2009 · Movie
The Reader
2008 · Movie
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
2008 · Series
Recount
2008 · Movie
Made of Honor
2008 · Movie
Leatherheads
2008 · Movie
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008 · Movie
James Taylor | One Man Band
2007 · Movie
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007 · Movie
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007 · Movie
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
2007 · Movie
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
2007 · Movie
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007 · Movie
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007 · Movie
Michael Clayton
2007 · Movie
Breaking and Entering
2006 · Movie
Catch a Fire
2006 · Movie
Filmmakers in Action
2006 · Movie
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006 · Movie
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006 · Movie
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006 · Movie
Avenue Montaigne
2006 · Movie
Forty Shades of Blue
2005 · Movie
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
2005 · Movie
One Six Right
2005 · Movie
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005 · Movie
The Last Mogul
2005 · Movie
The Interpreter
2005 · Movie
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
2004 · Movie
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
2004 · Movie
Entourage
2004 · Series
Something About Sydney Pollack
2004 · Movie
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
2004 · Movie
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004 · Movie
Cold Mountain
2003 · Movie
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003 · Movie
A Decade Under the Influence
2003 · Movie
In the Name of Love
2003 · Movie
More About the Condor
2003 · Movie
The Quiet American
2002 · Movie
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002 · Movie
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002 · Movie
Changing Lanes
2002 · Movie
Heaven
2002 · Movie
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
2001 · Movie
The Majestic
2001 · Movie
Iris
2001 · Movie
Birthday Girl
2001 · Movie
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001 · Movie
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
2001 · Movie
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001 · Movie
Blow Dry
2001 · Movie
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
2001 · Movie
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000 · Movie
Up at the Villa
2000 · Movie
A Song of Africa
2000 · Movie
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
2000 · Movie
The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 · Movie
Random Hearts
1999 · Movie
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
1999 · Movie
Eyes Wide Shut
1999 · Movie
The Sopranos
1999 · Series
The Way We Were: Looking Back
1999 · Movie
The Directors
1999 · Series
A Civil Action
1998 · Movie
Will & Grace
1998 · Series
Poodle Springs
1998 · Movie
Sliding Doors
1998 · Movie
Independent's Day
1998 · Movie
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
1997 · Movie
Just Shoot Me!
1997 · Series
King of the Hill
1997 · Series
Love in Hollywood
1996 · Movie
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996 · Movie
Sabrina
1995 · Movie
Sense and Sensibility
1995 · Movie
Red Wind
1995 · Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
American Cinema
1994 · Series
Flesh and Bone
1993 · Movie
Frasier
1993 · Series
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993 · Movie
Fallen Angels
1993 · Series
The Firm
1993 · Movie
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
1993 · Movie
Mad About You
1992 · Series
Husbands and Wives
1992 · Movie
Death Becomes Her
1992 · Movie
A Private Matter
1992 · Movie
The Player
1992 · Movie
Leaving Normal
1992 · Movie
Pebble Mill
1991 · Series
Dead Again
1991 · Movie
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991 · Movie
King Ralph
1991 · Movie
Havana
1990 · Movie
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990 · Movie
White Palace
1990 · Movie
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990 · Movie
Sanford Meisner Master Class
1990 · Movie
Presumed Innocent
1990 · Movie
The Fabulous Baker Boys
1989 · Movie
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989 · Movie
Hello Actors Studio
1988 · Movie
Bright Lights, Big City
1988 · Movie
A Tiger's Tale
1988 · Movie
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986 · Movie
Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986 · Movie
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986 · Movie
Out of Africa
1985 · Movie
Songwriter
1984 · Movie
Tootsie
1982 · Movie
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982 · Movie
The Making of 'Tootsie'
1982 · Movie
Absence of Malice
1981 · Movie
Honeysuckle Rose
1980 · Movie
The Electric Horseman
1979 · Movie
Bobby Deerfield
1977 · Movie
Three Days of the Condor
1975 · Movie
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Series
The Yakuza
1974 · Movie
The Way We Were
1973 · Movie
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973 · Movie
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1973 · Movie
Jeremiah Johnson
1972 · Movie
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Series
Great Performances
1971 · Series
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969 · Movie
Castle Keep
1969 · Movie
The Swimmer
1968 · Movie
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
The Scalphunters
1968 · Movie
This Property Is Condemned
1966 · Movie
The Slender Thread
1965 · Movie
Slattery's People
1964 · Series
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · Series
The Fugitive
1963 · Series
Breaking Point
1963 · Series
Arrest and Trial
1963 · Series
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Series
War Hunt
1962 · Movie
Frontier Circus
1961 · Series
The New Breed
1961 · Series
Ben Casey
1961 · Series
Target: The Corruptors!
1961 · Series
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Series
The Defenders
1961 · Series
The Young Savages
1961 · Movie
The Tall Man
1960 · Series
The Turn of the Screw
1959 · Movie
Startime
1959 · Series
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Series
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959 · Movie
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Series
Playhouse 90
1956 · Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Now Is Tomorrow
Movie