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Sidney Pollack started out as actor both on stage and television after graduating from the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. He met Robert Redford on the set of War Hunt(1962). Later when Pollack decided to move to directing, Redford was his first choice for a several films. The tandem collaborated on seven films: This Property Is Condemned (1966), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Electric Horseman (1979), Out of Africa (1985), and Havana (1990). Pollack won his first Academy award as Best Director for his work on Out of Africa.

Today Pollack is mainly producing films although he still appears in supporting roles as well. Memorable appearances include Tootsie, Death Becomes Her, Husbands and Wives, and Eyes Wide Shut.

In 1991, he brought a lawsuit against Danish TV for their pan-and-scan version of the Three Days of the Condor. He lost the case on a technicality but the court nevertheless ruled that the pan-and-scan version was a mutilation of the film.

Pollack won the John Huston Award in 2000, which was presented by Tom Cruise on behalf of the Directors Guild of America, as a "defender of artists' rights...a warrior."

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