Sydney Pollack
Birthday: 1934-07-01
Place of Birth: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Biography: 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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Eyes Wide Shut
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Changing Lanes
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Avenue Montaigne
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The Player
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Made of Honor
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Michael Clayton
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War Hunt
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A Civil Action
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Random Hearts
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Tootsie
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Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
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Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
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Husbands and Wives
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One Six Right
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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
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Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
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Char·ac·ter
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
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Death Becomes Her
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The Electric Horseman
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
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Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
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Barbra Streisand: One Voice
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View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
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The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
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Something About Sydney Pollack
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
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A Decade Under the Influence
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Independent's Day
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A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
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The Majestic
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The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
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The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
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Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
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Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
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Filmmakers in Action
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Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
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Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
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A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
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The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
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The Interpreter
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A Song of Africa
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Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
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The Way We Were: Looking Back
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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
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Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
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The Story of The Swimmer
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Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
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More About the Condor
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
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Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
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Adapting Austen
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A Very Quiet Man
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In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
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The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
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John Candy: I Like Me
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