SYDNEY POLLACK

Sydney Pollack’s nineteen films have received 46 Academy Award nominations including two for Best Picture. His film OUT OF AFRICA won seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director for Pollack. He won the New York Film Critics' Award for his 1982 film TOOTSIE, and the David di Donatello Award for THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR. He's received the Golden Globe for Best Director twice, the National Society of Film Critics' Award, the NATO Director of the Year Award, and prizes from the Brussels, Belgrade, San Sebastian, Moscow, and Taormina Film Festivals.

In 1986 The French Government awarded him the medal of Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres. Pollack served twice as a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival and once as the jury’s President. The American Film Institute voted TOOTSIE the #2 Comedy of all time, and THE WAY WE WERE and OUT OF AFRICA are in the AFI’s top 100 Romantic Films of all time. In 2000 he was awarded the Directors Guild of America John Huston Award by the Artists Rights Foundation.

As an actor, he has appeared in Woody Allen’s HUSBANDS AND WIVES, Robert Altman’s THE PLAYER, Robert Zemeckis’s DEATH BECOMES HER, Steve Zaillian’s CIVIL ACTION, Stanley Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT, and Roger Mitchell’s CHANGING LANES. On television he has appeared on MAD ABOUT YOU and WILL & GRACE. In 1985 he formed Mirage Productions. Under that banner he has produced the films; PRESUMED INNOCENT, THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS, WHITE PALACE, MAJOR LEAGUE, DEAD AGAIN, SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISHER, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, THE QUIET AMERICAN and COLD MOUNTAIN. In 2000, writer/director Anthony Minghella became a partner in Mirage Productions.

Pollack is a founding member of The Sundance Institute, The Chairman Emeritus of The American Cinematheque, a founding member of The Film Foundation, and on the Board of Directors for The Motion Picture and Television Fund.