Sydney Pollack
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.
33 directing credits · 100 acting credits
Directing · 33
The Fugitive
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Ben Casey
1961
The Defenders
1961
Arrest and Trial
1963
The Tall Man
1960
Cain's Hundred
1961
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Breaking Point
1963
The Firm
1993
Sabrina
1995
Three Days of the Condor
1975
Slattery's People
1964
The Interpreter
2005
Out of Africa
1985
The Way We Were
1973
Tootsie
1982
Random Hearts
1999
Frontier Circus
1961
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969
Absence of Malice
1981
Jeremiah Johnson
1972
The Yakuza
1974
Havana
1990
The Scalphunters
1968
This Property Is Condemned
1966
Bobby Deerfield
1977
The Electric Horseman
1979
The Slender Thread
1965
Castle Keep
1969
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006
Sanford Meisner Master Class
1990
Acting · 100
The Sopranos
1999
Frasier
1993
King of the Hill
1997
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Will & Grace
1998
Entourage
2004
Great Performances
1971
Mad About You
1992
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Twilight Zone
1959
Just Shoot Me!
1997
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Pebble Mill
1991
Playhouse 90
1956
Eyes Wide Shut
1999
Startime
1959
The New Breed
1961
The Directors
1999
Death Becomes Her
1992
The Player
1992
The Interpreter
2005
The Majestic
2001
Michael Clayton
2007
Made of Honor
2008
Changing Lanes
2002
Tootsie
1982
Random Hearts
1999
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
American Cinema
1994
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
2008
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
A Civil Action
1998
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
Husbands and Wives
1992
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
The Electric Horseman
1979
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
War Hunt
1962
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
Amazing Grace
2018
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004
Hello Actors Studio
1988
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
1993
Filmmakers in Action
2006
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
2004
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1973
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
2007
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
2005
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
2001
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
2007
Avenue Montaigne
2006
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
1999
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
2000
Char·ac·ter
2012
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996
Independent's Day
1998
One Six Right
2005
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007
Something About Sydney Pollack
2004
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
2004
More About the Condor
2003
Now Is Tomorrow
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Love in Hollywood
1996
The Making of 'Tootsie'
1982
The Last Mogul
2005
The Way We Were: Looking Back
1999
A Song of Africa
2000
The Story of The Swimmer
2014
A Very Quiet Man
2009
Adapting Austen
2009
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
2004
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
1997