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4 unusual facts about Sydney Pollack


Garson Yu

Since the company’s inception, Garson has collaborated with many filmmakers for his title design work including Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, John Woo, Sydney Pollack, and Ridley and Tony Scott.

Kurt Luedtke

He is best known for the screenplay for Out of Africa which won him an Academy Award, and for Absence of Malice (both films directed by Sydney Pollack).

Owen Roizman

Roizman is known for collaborating with film directors William Friedkin, Sydney Pollack and Lawrence Kasdan.

Simon Wakelin

He has worked on commercials and music videos alongside Ridley Scott, John Frankenheimer, Sydney Pollack, Spike Jonze and Marcus Nispel.


Beekman Place

In Sydney Pollack's 1973 movie The Way We Were, Beekman Place symbolizes the Waspish cultural background of Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford's character) that is a continual irritant in his relationship with the Marxist Jew Katie Morosky (played by Barbra Streisand).

C. Jay Cox

He mentioned in a 2004 interview that some of his idols are James L. Brooks, Sydney Pollack and Billy Wilder.

Denis Sanders

Denis Sanders (January 21, 1929 – December 10, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer who directed the debut performances of Robert Redford, George Hamilton, Sydney Pollack and Tom Skerritt in the 1962 film War Hunt.

Mary Selway

Selway worked with a number of renowned directors over three decades, including Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, Clint Eastwood, John Boorman, Sydney Pollack, Robert Altman, Michael Apted, Nicolas Roeg, Fred Schepisi, Fred Zinnemann and Ridley Scott.

Patrick Ssenjovu

Ssenjovu appeared as Ibrahim Moshoeshoe in Game 6 (2005), a sport, comedy-drama film directed by Michael Hoffman; and Sydney Pollack’s The Interpreter (2005), a mystery-thriller, drama film directed by Sydney Pollack.


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