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Sydney Pollack

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Sydney Pollack

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Also known as Sydney Irwin Pollack

American film director, producer and actor (1934-2008)

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Sydney Pollack was an American film producer, actor, and television actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1934, he began his professional work period in 1950. He received education at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Pollack was a citizen of the United States and spoke English as his native language.

His notable works include *Out of Africa*, *3 days of the Condor*, and *They shoot horses, don't they?*. He received the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and the Berlinale Camera. He was also nominated for the European Film Award for Best Film.

Pollack died of stomach cancer in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, on May 26, 2008. He had three children.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1934
Died
2008
Works
4

Top works

  • Out of Africa
  • 3 days of the Condor
  • They shoot horses, don't they?
  • Out of Africa

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Film & TV

Directing · Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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…

Known for

  • John Candy: I Like Me — Self - Director (archive footage)2025
  • Babenco: Tell Me When I Die — Self (archive footage)2020
  • Citizen Jane Fonda2020
  • Amazing Grace — Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)2018
  • Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2014
  • The Story of The Swimmer — Self (archive footage)2014
  • Char·ac·ter — Self2012
  • Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood — Self2009
  • Adapting Austen — Self2009
  • A Very Quiet Man — Self2009

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1934
Active to
2008

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
537
Total plays
1,312

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sydney+Pollack">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,854x

  2. Molecular portraits of human breast tumours

    · 2000 · cited 12,720x

  3. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 9,258x

  4. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 6,815x

  5. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,658x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Lafayette
Place of death
Los Angeles
Occupation
director
Educated at
Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Award
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
Notable work
Three Days of the Condor
Student of
Sanford Meisner
Image
Sydney Pollack.jpg
Height
182
Number of children
3
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Commons category
Sydney Pollack
date of birth
1934-07-01
date of death
2008-05-26
cause of death
stomach cancer
manner of death
natural causes
nominated for
European Film Award for Best Film
related category
Category:Films directed by Sydney Pollack
start of work period
1950-00-00
end of work period
2008-00-00
different from
Sidney Polak
writing language
English language
birth name
Sydney Irwin Pollack
name in native language
Sydney Pollack
topic has template
Template:Sydney Pollack
on focus list of Wikimedia project
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Encyclopedic overview

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films, 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 in a career spanning more than 40 years.

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 This Property Is Condemned (1966), 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).

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