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.
77 movies · 23 shows
John Candy: I Like Me
2025·7.9
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020·7.1
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020·7.8
Amazing Grace
2018·7.2
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014·6.5
The Story of The Swimmer
2014·0.0
Char·ac·ter
2012·4.0
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009·0.0
Adapting Austen
2009·0.0
A Very Quiet Man
2009·0.0
Made of Honor
2008·6.5
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008·6.0
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
2007·6.1
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007·7.4
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007·6.9
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007·6.0
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
2007·6.6
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007·6.2
Michael Clayton
2007·6.8
Filmmakers in Action
2006·7.2
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006·7.1
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006·6.5
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006·6.9
Avenue Montaigne
2006·6.1
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
2005·5.3
One Six Right
2005·8.0
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005·6.8
The Last Mogul
2005·5.5
The Interpreter
2005·6.3
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
2004·9.0
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
2004·0.0
Something About Sydney Pollack
2004·8.0
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
2004·9.0
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004·8.1
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003·6.9
A Decade Under the Influence
2003·7.9
More About the Condor
2003·7.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002·5.8
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002·7.7
Changing Lanes
2002·6.3
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
2001·7.0
The Majestic
2001·6.8
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001·6.0
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
2001·9.0
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001·6.3
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001·7.4
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000·6.2
A Song of Africa
2000·8.5
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
2000·8.0
Random Hearts
1999·5.6
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
1999·7.7
Eyes Wide Shut
1999·7.5
The Way We Were: Looking Back
1999·9.2
A Civil Action
1998·6.5
Independent's Day
1998·6.0
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
1997·8.0
Love in Hollywood
1996·10.0
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996·7.7
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
1993·8.0
Husbands and Wives
1992·7.0
Death Becomes Her
1992·6.8
The Player
1992·7.2
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991·7.5
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990·0.0
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990·0.0
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989·0.0
Hello Actors Studio
1988·6.7
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986·7.6
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986·9.0
Tootsie
1982·7.2
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982·6.0
The Making of 'Tootsie'
1982·6.0
The Electric Horseman
1979·6.1
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1973·6.5
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973·6.8
War Hunt
1962·6.4
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959·0.0