12:50PM Defamer Hollywood | Sydney Pollack, the director, producer and actor whose 1985 drama
Out of Africa earned him that year’s Best Picture and Director Oscars,
died today at his home in Pacific Palisades. He was 73. He had suffered from cancer for more than a year, completing his final film — the documentary
Sketches of Frank Gehry — in 2005. Pollack worked at the helm of benchmarks in three decades including
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (for which he earned his first Oscar nomination),
The Way We Were,
Three Days of the Condor and
Tootsie. He found his most significant acclaim after directing Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in
Out of Africa, going on to work with Tom Cruise (
The Firm), Harrison Ford (
Sabrina,
Random Hearts) and Nicole Kidman (
The Interpreter) in the years that followed.
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