Sydney Pollack

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Sydney Pollack (born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, producer and actor. His career started in the 1960s, directing episodes of TV series such as The Fugitive and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City before embarking on his acting career. He then moved behind the camera to direct and produce. He won the Academy Award for Directing for Out of Africa (1985). Pollack had previously been nominated for Best Director Oscars for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and Tootsie.

While directing Tootsie, his rows with Dustin Hoffman became well known. Eventually Hoffman began pushing the idea that Pollack play the role of his agent and Pollack reluctantly agreed. Their off-screen relationship added authenticity to their scenes in the movie, most of which feature them arguing. Pollack has since taken on more acting roles in addition to producing and directing.

As a character actor, Pollack has subsequently appeared in films such as A Civil Action and Eyes Wide Shut, as well as his own including The Interpreter. He also appeared in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives as a New York lawyer undergoing a mid-life crisis.

He had a recurring guest star role on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, playing Will Truman's (Eric McCormack) unfaithful but loving father, George Truman.

Sydney Pollack received the first annual Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking award from the Austin Film Festival October 21, 2006.

Selected filmography

• War Hunt (1962) actor -- film debut
• The Slender Thread (1965) director
• This Property Is Condemned (1966) director
• The Scalphunters' (1968) director
• The Swimmer (1968) co-director
• Castle Keep (1969) director
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) director
• Jeremiah Johnson (1972) director
• The Way We Were (1973) director
• Three Days of the Condor (1975) director
• The Yakuza (1975) director/producer
• Bobby Deerfield (1977) director/producer
• The Electric Horseman (1979) director/actor
• Absence of Malice (1981) director/producer
• Tootsie (1982) director/producer/actor
• Out of Africa (1985) director/producer
• The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) executive producer
• Havana (1990) director/co-producer
• Husbands and Wives (1992) actor
• The Firm (1993) director/producer
• Sense and Sensibility (1995) executive producer
• Sabrina (1995) director/producer
• Sliding Doors (1998) producer
• Random Hearts (1999) director
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999) actor
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) executive producer
• Iris (2001) executive producer
• Changing Lanes (2002) actor
• The Quiet American (2002) executive producer
• Cold Mountain (2003) producer
• The Interpreter (2005) director, executive producer, and actor
• One Six Right (2005) self
• Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005) director
• Breaking and Entering (2006) producer
• Avenue Montaigne (2006) acting as himself

Preceded by Miloš Forman for Amadeus

Academy Award for Best Director 1985 for Out of Africa

Succeeded by Oliver Stone for Platoon

External link

• Sydney Pollack at the Internet Movie Database
• Existentiality of Pollack

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