Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack

Birthday: 1934-07-01

Deathday: 2008-05-26

Place of birth: Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Also known as: Sidney Pollack, Sydney Irwin Pollack

imdb_id: nm0001628

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.

Played in movies:

Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album

Score: 10.0

The Way We Were: Looking Back

Score: 9.4

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

Score: 8.1

One Six Right

Score: 8.1

A Song of Africa

Score: 8.0

A Decade Under the Influence

Score: 8.0

The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'

Score: 7.7

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

Score: 7.6

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

Score: 7.5

Eyes Wide Shut

Score: 7.5

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Score: 7.4

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

Score: 7.4

Tootsie

Score: 7.2

The Player

Score: 7.2

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

Score: 7.1

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

Score: 7.0

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Score: 7.0

The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz

Score: 7.0

Husbands and Wives

Score: 7.0

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

Score: 6.9

Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

Score: 6.9

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

Score: 6.9

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Score: 6.9

Filmmakers in Action

Score: 6.8

Death Becomes Her

Score: 6.8

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

Score: 6.8

Michael Clayton

Score: 6.8

The Majestic

Score: 6.8

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

Score: 6.5

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Score: 6.5

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Score: 6.5

Hello Actors Studio

Score: 6.5

War Hunt

Score: 6.5

A Civil Action

Score: 6.5

Made of Honor

Score: 6.4

The Interpreter

Score: 6.3

Changing Lanes

Score: 6.3

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Score: 6.2

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

Score: 6.1

The Electric Horseman

Score: 6.1

Avenue Montaigne

Score: 6.1

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"

Score: 6.0

Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

Score: 6.0

A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'

Score: 6.0

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

Score: 6.0

Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

Score: 6.0

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

Score: 6.0

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Score: 5.8

Random Hearts

Score: 5.6

Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'

Score: 5.4

The Last Mogul

Score: 5.3

Independent's Day

Score: 5.0

Char·ac·ter

Score: 4.0

The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson

Score: 0.0

In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema

Score: 0.0

A Very Quiet Man

Score: 0.0

Adapting Austen

Score: 0.0

Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies

Score: 0.0

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Score: 0.0

More About the Condor

Score: 0.0

The Story of The Swimmer

Score: 0.0

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

Score: 0.0

A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'

Score: 0.0

Something About Sydney Pollack

Score: 0.0

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

Score: 0.0

Love in Hollywood

Score: 0.0

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

Score: 0.0

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

Score: 0.0

Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma

Score: 0.0

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Sopranos

Score: 8.6

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

American Cinema

Score: 8.0

Le Grand Échiquier

Score: 8.0

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.8

Frasier

Score: 7.7

Playhouse 90

Score: 7.6

Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence

Score: 7.5

Inside the Actors Studio

Score: 7.5

King of the Hill

Score: 7.4

Entourage

Score: 7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.3

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

The New Breed

Score: 7.0

The New Breed

Score: 7.0

Will & Grace

Score: 6.8

The Dick Cavett Show

Score: 6.8

Mad About You

Score: 6.7

Just Shoot Me!

Score: 6.6

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Score: 6.0

The Directors

Score: 5.8

Great Performances

Score: 5.8

Pebble Mill

Score: 3.1