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


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