American film director, actor and producer Sidney Irwin Pollack was born on July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana. His parents - housewife Rebecca Miller and professional boxer, who became a pharmacist after his sports career, David Pollack - emigrated to the United States from Odessa. After the divorce of his parents, Sidney lived with his mother, until he lost her at the age of sixteen - Rebecca, who suffered from alcoholism, died.
Since 1952, he has been studying for two years at the Neighborhood
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American film director, actor and producer Sidney Irwin Pollack was born on July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana. His parents - housewife Rebecca Miller and professional boxer, who became a pharmacist after his sports career, David Pollack - emigrated to the United States from Odessa. After the divorce of his parents, Sidney lived with his mother, until he lost her at the age of sixteen - Rebecca, who suffered from alcoholism, died.
Since 1952, he has been studying for two years at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater. After serving in the army, the young man earns a living by acting: he starred in television plays, plays in Broadway plays, simultaneously working as a director and teaching acting.
In 1965, Pollack announced himself as a film director with a psychological drama.
"Thin thread" It starred American actors Anne Bancroft and Sidney Poitier. The fourth directorial work of Sidney Pollack brings him major success and the first Oscar nomination for best director of the year. Released on the wide screen in 1969 film adaptation of the novel of the same name
"They shoot horses, don't they?" It was warmly received by the audience, largely due to the great game. Jane Fonda Michael Sarrezin and Giga Young.
1970s – a period of creative heyday Pollack: he shoots the drama “Meeting of two hearts” with Robert Radford and Barbara Streisand in the lead roles, western “Jeremiah Johnson”, thrillers “Yakuza” and
"Three days of the Condor" The melodrama "Electric Rider".
However, the real triumph comes to the director with the release in 1982 of a comedy with Dustin Hoffman.
Tootsy . The tape was again nominated for an Oscar for directing, and although the film did not receive the coveted statuette, the Library of Congress called it a “significant cultural phenomenon” and was selected for storage in the National Film Registry.
In 1986, the director finally received an Oscar for Best Director and Best Film of the Year. In total, his painting “Out of Africa” receives seven Oscars, three Golden Globe Awards and three BAFTA Awards.
In the 1990s, Pollack began producing and spent more time acting – he played in Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives, Robert Altman’s The Gambler, Robert Zemeckis’s Death to Her Face, and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. His last film role was his work in the romantic comedy “The Bride’s Friend” by Paul Weiland.
Sidney Irwin Pollack died on May 26, 2008 in Los Angeles.
