Birthday: July 01, 1934
Sydney Pollack was born to first generation Russian-Jewish Americans on July 1, 1934. After graduating from his Indiana high school, he went to New York and became a student at the Neighborhood Playhouse, a celebrated Greenwich Village school, where he studied under Sanford Meisner. He served two years in the army before returning to the Neighborhood Playhouse in 1958 as a teacher, and ...more- 2007
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Picture
- Michael Clayton
- nom
- 2003
- Producers Guild of America
- Producer of the Year
- Cold Mountain
- nom
- 1985
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Director
- Out of Africa
- win
- 1985
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Picture
- Out of Africa
- win
- 1985
- Directors Guild of America
- Best Director
- Out of Africa
- nom
- 2008
- Made of Honor
- Thomas Sr.
- 2007
- Michael Clayton
- Marty Bach
- 2006
- Avenue Montaigne
- Brian Sobinski
- 2006
- John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
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- Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
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- 2009
- The Silver Linings Playbook
- Producer
- 2008
- Recount
- Executive Producer
- 2008
- Leatherheads
- Executive Producer
- 2008
- The Reader
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- 2008
- Margaret
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