Sydney Pollack
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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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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Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
