
Sydney Pollack
Known for: Directing
Born: July 1, 1934
Died: May 26, 2008
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 nominate…
Known for

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973

Something About Sydney Pollack
2004

The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
2005
More About the Condor
2003
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
2004

One Six Right
2005

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1973

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002

Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006

A Decade Under the Influence
2003

The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
1999

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001

The Way We Were: Looking Back
1999
Adapting Austen
2009
A Very Quiet Man
2009

The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
1997

The Making of 'Tootsie'
1982

Eyes Wide Shut
1999

War Hunt
1962

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007

A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008

Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986

Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
2007

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007

Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990

Changing Lanes
2002

Michael Clayton
2007
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
2000

Husbands and Wives
1992

A Song of Africa
2000

Now Is Tomorrow

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
2001

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009

Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000

Char·ac·ter
2012

A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
2004

Random Hearts
1999

Independent's Day
1998

The Last Mogul
2005

Tootsie
1982

Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
2007

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
2004

Hello Actors Studio
1988
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982

Amazing Grace
2018

Avenue Montaigne
2006

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001

Love in Hollywood
1996

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996

For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959

The Player
1992

Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991

Made of Honor
2008

The Story of The Swimmer
2014
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990

Citizen Jane Fonda
2020

A Civil Action
1998

Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
1993

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006

Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007

The Majestic
2001

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005

Filmmakers in Action
2006

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014

The Electric Horseman
1979

The Interpreter
2005

John Candy: I Like Me
2025

Death Becomes Her
1992

Mad About You
1992

Inside the Actors Studio
1994

The Sopranos
1999

King of the Hill
1997

Entourage
2004

Frasier
1993

Will & Grace
1998

The Twilight Zone
1959

Just Shoot Me!
1997

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

The New Breed
1961

The Directors
1999
Pebble Mill
1991

Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
2008

Playhouse 90
1956

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Great Performances
1971

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

Golden Globe Awards
1944

American Cinema
1994

Startime
1959