Sydney Pollack

Known For: Directing
Born: July 1, 1934
Place of Birth: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Died: May 26, 2008

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 T…

Filmography

John Candy: I Like Me

2025 · Self - Director (archive footage)

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

2020 · Self (archive footage)

Citizen Jane Fonda

2020

Amazing Grace

2018 · Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

2014 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

The Story of The Swimmer

2014 · Self (archive footage)

Char·ac·ter

2012 · Self

Silver Linings Playbook

2012 · Thanks

Margaret

2011 · Producer

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

2009 · Self

Adapting Austen

Adapting Austen

2009 · Self

A Very Quiet Man

A Very Quiet Man

2009 · Self

The Reader

2008 · Producer

Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence

2008 · Self

Recount

2008 · Executive Producer

Made of Honor

2008 · Thomas Sr.

Leatherheads

2008 · Executive Producer

A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'

2008 · Self

James Taylor | One Man Band

2007 · Executive Producer

Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

2007 · Self

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

2007 · Self

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

2007 · Self

Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

2007 · Self

Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

2007 · Self

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

2007 · Self

Michael Clayton

2007 · Marty Bach, Producer

Breaking and Entering

2006 · Producer

Catch a Fire

2006 · Executive Producer

Filmmakers in Action

2006 · Self

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

2006 · Self

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

2006 · Self

Sketches of Frank Gehry

2006 · Self, Director, Director of Photography, Executive Producer

Avenue Montaigne

2006 · Brian Sobinski

Forty Shades of Blue

2005 · Executive Producer

The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz

2005 · Narrator (voice)

One Six Right

2005 · Self

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

2005 · Self

The Last Mogul

2005 · Self

The Interpreter

2005 · Jay Pettigrew (uncredited), Director, Executive Producer

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

2004 · Self

In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema

In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema

2004 · Self

Entourage

2004 · Sydney Pollack

Something About Sydney Pollack

2004 · Self

A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'

2004 · Self

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

2004 · Self

Cold Mountain

2003 · Producer

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

2003 · Narrator

A Decade Under the Influence

2003 · Self

In the Name of Love

2003 · Executive Producer

More About the Condor

More About the Condor

2003 · Self

The Quiet American

2002 · Executive Producer

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

2002 · Narrator (voice)

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

2002 · Self

Changing Lanes

2002 · Stephen Delano

Heaven

2002 · Executive Producer

Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot

2001 · Self

The Majestic

2001 · Studio Executive (voice)

Iris

2001 · Executive Producer

Birthday Girl

2001 · Executive Producer

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"

2001 · Self

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand

2001 · self

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

2001 · Self

Blow Dry

2001 · Executive Producer

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

2001 · Self

Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'

2000 · Self

Up at the Villa

2000 · Executive Producer

A Song of Africa

2000 · Self

Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma

Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma

2000 · Self

The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999 · Executive Producer

Random Hearts

1999 · Carl Broman, Director, Producer

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

1999 · Self

Eyes Wide Shut

1999 · Victor Ziegler

The Sopranos

1999 · Warren Feldman

The Way We Were: Looking Back

1999 · Self

The Directors

1999 · Self

A Civil Action

1998 · Al Eustis

Will & Grace

1998 · George Truman

Poodle Springs

1998 · Executive Producer

Sliding Doors

1998 · Producer

Independent's Day

1998 · Self

The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson

1997 · Self

Just Shoot Me!

1997 · Sydney Pollack

King of the Hill

1997 · Grant Trimble (voice)

Love in Hollywood

1996 · Self

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

1996 · Self

Sabrina

1995 · Director, Producer

Sense and Sensibility

1995 · Executive Producer

Red Wind

1995 · Executive Producer

Inside the Actors Studio

1994 · Self

American Cinema

1994 · Self

Flesh and Bone

1993 · Executive Producer

Frasier

1993 · Holden Thorpe (voice)

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993 · Executive Producer

Fallen Angels

1993 · Executive Producer

The Firm

1993 · Director, Producer

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

1993 · Self

Mad About You

1992 · Dr. Sydney Warren

Husbands and Wives

1992 · Jack

Death Becomes Her

1992 · Hospital Doctor (uncredited)

A Private Matter

1992 · Executive Producer

The Player

1992 · Dick Mellen

Leaving Normal

1992 · Executive Producer

Pebble Mill

1991 · Self

Dead Again

1991 · Executive Producer

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

1991 · Self

King Ralph

1991 · Executive Producer

Havana

1990 · Director, Producer

Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies

1990 · Self

White Palace

1990 · Executive Producer

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

1990 · Self, Executive Producer, Other

Sanford Meisner Master Class

1990 · Director

Presumed Innocent

1990 · Producer

The Fabulous Baker Boys

1989 · Executive Producer

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989 · Self (voice)

Hello Actors Studio

1988 · Self

Bright Lights, Big City

1988 · Producer

A Tiger's Tale

1988 · Thanks

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

1986 · Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

Nine 1/2 Weeks

1986 · Other

Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album

1986 · Self

Out of Africa

1985 · Director, Producer

Songwriter

1984 · Producer

Tootsie

1982 · George Fields, Director, Producer

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

1982

The Making of 'Tootsie'

1982 · Self

Absence of Malice

1981 · Director, Producer

Honeysuckle Rose

1980 · Executive Producer

The Electric Horseman

1979 · Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited), Director

Bobby Deerfield

1977 · Director, Producer

Three Days of the Condor

1975 · Director, Producer

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975 · Self

The Yakuza

1974 · Director, Producer

The Way We Were

1973 · Director

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

1973 · Self - Narrator (voice)

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

1973 · Narrator (voice)

Jeremiah Johnson

1972 · Director

Le Grand Échiquier

1972 · Self

Great Performances

1971 · Self

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

1969 · Director

Castle Keep

1969 · Director

The Swimmer

1968 · Co-Director

The Dick Cavett Show

1968 · Self - Guest

The Scalphunters

1968 · Director

This Property Is Condemned

1966 · Director

The Slender Thread

1965 · Director

Slattery's People

1964 · Director

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963 · Director

The Fugitive

1963 · Director

Breaking Point

1963 · Director

Arrest and Trial

1963 · Director

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962 · Director

War Hunt

1962 · Sgt. Owen Van Horn

Frontier Circus

1961 · Director

The New Breed

1961 · Austin Rogers, Bert Masters

Ben Casey

1961 · Director

Target: The Corruptors!

1961 · Director

Cain's Hundred

1961 · Director

The Defenders

1961 · Director

The Young Savages

1961 · Dialect Coach

The Tall Man

1960 · Director

The Turn of the Screw

1959 · Dialogue Coach

Startime

1959 · Harry, Dialogue

The Twilight Zone

1959 · Arthur Willis

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1959 · Andres

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957 · Joe Culp

Playhouse 90

1956 · Andres

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955 · Bernie Samuelson

Golden Globe Awards

1944 · Self - Nominee, Self - Nominee / Nominee

Now Is Tomorrow

— · Capt. Stein

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