{{short description|American filmmaker and actor (1934–2008)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox person | image = Sydney Pollack.jpg | caption = Pollack at the Metropolitan Opera House, 2006 | birth_name = Sydney Irwin Pollack | birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|7|1}} | birth_place = Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2008|5|26|1934|7|1}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | years_active = 1955–2008 | occupation = {{hlist|Film director|producer|actor}} | spouse = {{marriage|Claire Bradley Griswold|1958}} | children = 3 }} '''Sydney Irwin Pollack''' (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards in a career spanning more than 40 years.
Pollack won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for ''Out of Africa'' (1985).<ref name=Awards>{{cite web| url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1986| title=The 58th Academy Awards | 1986| website=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences| date=October 4, 2014| access-date=July 23, 2017}}</ref> He was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director for ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' (1969) and ''Tootsie'' (1982). Pollack's other notable films include ''This Property Is Condemned'' (1966), ''Jeremiah Johnson'' (1972), ''The Way We Were'' (1973), ''The Yakuza'' (1974), ''Three Days of the Condor'' (1975), ''Absence of Malice'' (1981), ''The Firm'' (1993), and ''Sabrina'' (1995).
Pollack produced and acted in ''Michael Clayton'' (2007). Other films he produced include ''The Fabulous Baker Boys'' (1989), ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995), ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999), ''Iris'' (2001), ''Cold Mountain'' (2003) and ''The Reader'' (2008). Pollack also acted in ''Tootsie'', Robert Altman's ''The Player'' (1992), Woody Allen's ''Husbands and Wives'' (1993), and Stanley Kubrick's ''Eyes Wide Shut'' (1999).
==Early life== Pollack was born in Lafayette, Indiana, to a family of Jewish immigrants, the son of Rebecca (née Miller) and David Pollack, a semi-professional boxer and pharmacist.<ref name="guardiansuccess">{{cite news| title=The secret of my success?| newspaper=The Guardian| date=August 14, 2002| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/aug/14/festivals.edinburghfilmfestival| access-date=May 29, 2008| location=London| first=Geoffrey| last=MacNab}}</ref> The family relocated to South Bend, and his parents divorced when he was young. His mother, who suffered from alcoholism and emotional problems, died at age 37, when Pollack was 16.<ref name="guardiansuccess"/><ref name="sfgate">{{cite news| last=McLellan| first=Dennis| title=Sydney Pollack: 1934–2008, Prolific director known for A-list casts| work=SFGate| date=May 27, 2008| url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Prolific-director-known-for-A-list-casts-3212609.php| access-date=October 15, 2020}}</ref>
Despite earlier plans to attend college and then medical school, Pollack left Indiana for New York City soon after finishing high school at 17.<ref name="revered">{{cite news| last=Macnab| first=Geoffrey| title=Sydney Pollack, film director revered by stars, dies aged 73| newspaper=The Independent| date=May 28, 2008| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/news/sydney-pollack-film-director-revered-by-stars-dies-aged-73-835191.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/news/sydney-pollack-film-director-revered-by-stars-dies-aged-73-835191.html |archive-date=May 26, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| access-date=May 29, 2008| location=London}}</ref> From 1952 to 1954 he studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, working on a lumber truck between terms.<ref name="revered"/>
Pollack was drafted for two years' army service as a truck driver at Fort Carson, Colorado,<ref>{{cite web|title=From the S&S archives: Sydney Pollock: A man for the stars|author=Trott, Walt|date=June 18, 1973|work=Stars and Stripes|url=https://www.stripes.com/news/from-the-s-s-archives-sydney-pollock-a-man-for-the-stars-1.79356}}</ref> ending in 1958. He returned to the Playhouse at Meisner's invitation to become his assistant.<ref name="telegraph"/> In 1960, John Frankenheimer, a friend of Pollack's, asked him to work in Los Angeles as a dialogue coach for the child actors in Frankenheimer's first big movie, ''The Young Savages''. During this time Pollack met Burt Lancaster, who encouraged him to try directing.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news| title=Obituary: Sydney Pollack| newspaper=The Daily Telegraph| date=May 28, 2008| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2035489/Sydney-Pollack.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528084458/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2035489/Sydney-Pollack.html|url-status=dead| archive-date=May 28, 2008| access-date=May 29, 2008| location=London}}</ref>
==Career== Pollack played a director in the 1960 ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "The Trouble with Templeton". He made his feature film debut as an actor in Denis Sanders's ''War Hunt'' (1962), where he met Robert Redford, the male lead in seven films Pollack directed.
Pollack first found success in television in the 1960s by directing episodes of series, such as ''The Fugitive'' and ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour''. After that he directed a string of movies that drew public attention. His directorial debut was ''The Slender Thread'' (1965).<ref name="sfgate"/> Pollack's films received 48 Academy Award nominations and won 11 Oscars. His first Oscar nomination was for his 1969 film ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'', and his second in 1982 for ''Tootsie''. For his 1985 film ''Out of Africa'', starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, Pollack won Academy Awards for directing and producing.<ref name=Awards/> His other notable films include ''Jeremiah Johnson'' (1972), ''The Way We Were'' (1973), ''The Yakuza'' (1974), ''Absence of Malice'' (1981), ''The Firm'' (1993), and ''Sabrina'' (1995).
Pollack directed 12 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Susannah York, Barbra Streisand, Paul Newman, Melinda Dillon, Jessica Lange, Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, and Holly Hunter. Young and Lange won Oscars for their performances in Pollack's films.
In 1984, Pollack helped found the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, becoming co-chairman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.americancinematheque.com/about/|title=About|website=American Cinematheque}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=LA Weekly|last=Thompson|first=Anne|author-link=Anne Thompson (film journalist)|title=Filmex: Will Jerry Weintraub save it or destroy it?|date=April 17, 1986|pages=38–39}}</ref>
One of a select group of non- and/or former actors awarded membership in the Actors Studio,<ref>{{cite book| quote=Various directors and playwrights, including Frank Corsaro, Martin Fried, Jack Garfein, Michal V. Gazzo, Charles Gordone, Israel Horovitz, Arthur Penn, Eleanor Perry, Frank Perry, Sidney Pollack, Mark Rydell, Alan Schneider, and John Stix, have also been granted membership on the basis of their contributions to the life and work of The Actors Studio, as have certain other non-performers, such as Liska March and Carl Schaeffer.| first=David| last=Garfield|title=A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio| url=https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf| url-access=registration| year=1980| publisher=MacMillan| location=New York| isbn=978-0-0254-2650-4| page=[https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf/page/93 93]| chapter=Strasberg Takes Over: 1951–1955}}</ref> Pollack resumed acting in the 1990s with appearances in Robert Altman's ''The Player'' (1992) and Stanley Kubrick's ''Eyes Wide Shut'' (1999), often playing corrupt or morally conflicted power figures. As a character actor, he appeared in films such as ''A Civil Action'' (1998), and ''Changing Lanes'' (2002), as well as his own, including ''Three Days of the Condor'' (1975), ''The Electric Horseman'' (1979), ''Random Hearts'' (1999), and ''The Interpreter'' (2005, his final non-documentary film as a director). He also appeared in Woody Allen's ''Husbands and Wives'' (1992) as a New York lawyer undergoing a midlife crisis, and in Robert Zemeckis's ''Death Becomes Her'' (1992) as an emergency room doctor. His last role was as Patrick Dempsey's father in the 2008 romantic comedy ''Made of Honor'', which was in theaters at the time of his death. He was a recurring guest star on the NBC sitcom ''Will & Grace'', playing Will Truman's (Eric McCormack) unfaithful but loving father, George. He also appeared on NBC's ''Just Shoot Me'' and ''Mad About You'' and in 2007 made guest appearances on HBO's ''The Sopranos'' and ''Entourage''.
Pollack received the first annual Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking award from the Austin Film Festival on October 21, 2006. As a producer, he helped guide many films that were successful with both critics and audiences, such as ''The Fabulous Baker Boys'' (1989), ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995), ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999), ''Iris'' (2001), ''Cold Mountain'' (2003), and ''Michael Clayton'' (2007), a film in which he also starred and for which he received his sixth Academy Award nomination, in the Best Picture category. Pollack and the English director Anthony Minghella formed the production company Mirage Enterprises. The last film they produced together, ''The Reader'' (2008), earned them both posthumous Oscar nominations for Best Picture. Pollack was also nominated for five Primetime Emmys, earning two: one for directing in 1966 and another for producing, which was given four months after his death in 2008.
The moving image collection of Sydney Pollack is housed at the Academy Film Archive.<ref>{{cite web| title=Sydney Pollack Collection| url=http://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/sydney-pollack-collection| website=Academy Film Archive}}</ref>
==Influences== In the 2002 ''Sight & Sound'' Directors' Poll, Pollack listed his top ten films in alphabetical order:<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine=Sight and Sound| url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/poll/voter.php?forename=Sydney&surname=Pollack| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626191807/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/poll/voter.php?forename=Sydney&surname=Pollack| url-status=dead| archive-date=June 26, 2012| title=2002 Top Ten Poll — How the directors and critics voted: Sydney Pollack| access-date=2021-08-28}}</ref> {{div col | colwidth=25em}} *''Casablanca'' (1943) *''Citizen Kane'' (1941) *''The Conformist'' (1970) *''The Godfather Part II'' (1974) *''Grand Illusion'' (1937) *''The Leopard'' (1963) *''Once Upon a Time in America'' (1984) *''Raging Bull'' (1980) *''The Seventh Seal'' (1957) *''Sunset Boulevard'' (1950) {{div col end}}
==Personal life== Pollack was married to Claire Bradley Griswold, a former student of his, from 1958 until his death in 2008. They had three children.<ref name=Cieply>{{cite news| first=Michael|last=Cieply|author-link=Michael Cieply| title=Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Is Dead at 73| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/movies/27pollack.html |work=The New York Times| date=May 27, 2008| access-date=October 15, 2020| url-access=limited}}</ref>
==Death== Concerns about Pollack's health surfaced in 2007, when he withdrew from directing HBO's television film ''Recount'', which aired on May 25, 2008.<ref name=ClarkM-USAT-Obit>{{cite news| first=Mike| last=Clark| url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-05-26-pollack-obit_N.htm| title=Remembering Sydney Pollack, an actor's director| newspaper=USA Today| date=May 26, 2008| access-date=October 15, 2020}}</ref> He died from cancer the next day at his home in Los Angeles's Pacific Palisades neighborhood, aged 73.<ref name=Cieply/> He had been diagnosed about ten months before his death; the type of cancer has been variously cited as pancreatic,<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-28-et-pollackmovies28-story.html|title = Pollack's way with actors|last = King|first = Susan|date = May 28, 2008|accessdate = February 13, 2022|work = Los Angeles Times}}</ref> stomach,<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-harvey-weinstein-tormented-a-legendary-director-on-his-death-bed|title = When Harvey Weinstein Tormented a Legendary Director on His Deathbed|work = The Daily Beast|date = October 16, 2017|accessdate = February 13, 2022|last = Stern|first = Marlow}}</ref> or of unknown primary origin.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pollack/sydney-pollack-dies-in-los-angeles-idUSN2635601320080527|title = Sydney Pollack dies in Los Angeles|work = Reuters|date = May 26, 2008|accessdate = February 13, 2022|last = Gorman|first = Steve|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180609140424/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pollack/sydney-pollack-dies-in-los-angeles-idUSN2635601320080527/|archive-date = June 9, 2018}}</ref>
==Filmography== ===Film=== '''Directing and producing''' {| class="wikitable" |- !Year !Title !width=65|Director !width=65|Producer !Notes |- | 1965 || ''The Slender Thread'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} || rowspan=2|Paramount Pictures |- | 1966 || ''This Property Is Condemned'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} |- | 1968 || ''The Scalphunters'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} || United Artists |- | rowspan="2" | 1969 || ''Castle Keep'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} || Columbia Pictures |- | ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} || Cinerama Releasing Corporation |- | 1972 || ''Jeremiah Johnson'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} || Warner Bros. |- | 1973 || ''The Way We Were'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} || Columbia Pictures |- | 1974 || ''The Yakuza'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || Warner Bros. |- | 1975 || ''Three Days of the Condor'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} || Paramount Pictures |- | 1977 || ''Bobby Deerfield'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || Warner Bros./Columbia Pictures |- | 1979 || ''The Electric Horseman'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} || Columbia Pictures/Universal Pictures |- | 1981 || ''Absence of Malice'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} || rowspan=2|Columbia Pictures |- | 1982 || ''Tootsie'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} |- | 1985 || ''Out of Africa'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || rowspan=2|Universal Pictures |- | 1990 || ''Havana'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} |- | 1993 || ''The Firm'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || rowspan=2|Paramount Pictures |- | 1995 || ''Sabrina'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} |- | 1999 || ''Random Hearts'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || Columbia Pictures |- | 2005 || ''The Interpreter'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} || Universal Pictures |- | 2006 || ''Sketches of Frank Gehry'' || {{yes}} || {{yes|Executive}} || Sony Pictures Classics |- | 2018 || ''Amazing Grace'' || {{yes}} || {{no}} || Neon |}
{{div flex row|div o=y}} '''As executive producer''' *''Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret'' (1985) *''The Fabulous Baker Boys'' (1989) *''King Ralph'' (1991) *''Searching for Bobby Fischer'' (1993) *''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995) *''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999) *''Iris'' (2001) * ''Birthday Girl'' (2001) *''The Quiet American'' (2002) *''Leatherheads'' (2008) *''Recount'' (2008) {{div CO}} '''As producer only''' *''Songwriter'' (1984) *''Bright Lights, Big City'' (1988) *''Presumed Innocent'' (1990) *''Sliding Doors'' (1998) *''Cold Mountain'' (2003) *''Breaking and Entering'' (2006) *''Michael Clayton'' (2007) *''The Reader'' (2008) *''Margaret'' (2011) {{div flex row end|div c=y}}
'''Acting roles''' {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1962 | ''War Hunt'' | Sergeant Owen Van Horn | |- | 1975 | ''Three Days of the Condor'' | Taxi Driver | |- | 1979 | ''The Electric Horseman'' | Man Who Makes Pass At Alice | Uncredited |- | 1982 | ''Tootsie'' | George Fields | |- | rowspan=3 | 1992 | ''The Player'' | Dick Mellon | |- | ''Death Becomes Her'' | Emergency Room Doctor | Uncredited |- | ''Husbands and Wives'' | Jack | |- | 1998 | ''A Civil Action'' | Al Eustis | |- | rowspan=2 | 1999 | ''Eyes Wide Shut'' | Victor Ziegler | |- | ''Random Hearts'' | Carl Broman | |- | 2001 | ''The Majestic'' | Studio Executive | Voice |- | 2002 | ''Changing Lanes'' | Stephen Delano | |- | 2005 | ''The Interpreter'' | Secret Service Director Jay Pettigrew | Uncredited |- | 2006 | ''Fauteuils d'orchestre'' | Brian Sobinski | |- | 2007 | ''Michael Clayton'' | Marty Bach | |- | 2008 | ''Made of Honor'' | Thomas Bailey Sr. | Final film role |- |}
===Television=== '''Acting roles''' {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1956 | ''The Kaiser Aluminum Hour'' | Shuber | Episode: "The Army Game" |- | rowspan=4 | 1959 | ''Playhouse 90'' | Andres | Episodes: "For Whom the Bell Tolls: Parts 1 & 2" |- | ''The United States Steel Hour'' | Benson | Episode: "The Case of Julia Walton" |- | ''Armstrong Circle Theatre'' | Albert Rousseau | Episode: "35 Rue Du Marche" |- | ''Startime'' | Harry | Episode: "Something Special" |- | 1959–1964 | ''Brenner'' | Detective Al Dunn | 3 episodes |- | rowspan=3 | 1960 | ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' | Bernie Samuelson | Season 6 Episode 4: "The Contest for Aaron Gold" |- | ''The Twilight Zone'' | Arthur Willis | Episode: "The Trouble with Templeton" |- | ''Tales of Wells Fargo'' | Stan Ryker | Episode: "Angry Town" |- | rowspan=4 | 1961 | ''The Untouchables'' | Charlie | Episode: "The Big Train Part One" |- | ''Have Gun – Will Travel'' | Joe Culp | Episodes: "Quiet Night in Town: Part 1 & 2" |- | ''The Deputy'' | Chuck Johnson | Episode: "Spoken in Silence" |- | ''The Asphalt Jungle'' | Louie | Episode: "The Professor" |- | 1961–1962 | ''The New Breed'' | Austin Rogers<br>Bert Masters | 2 episodes |- | 1962 | ''Ben Casey'' | Unknown | Episode: "Monument to an Aged Hunter" |- | 1994 | ''Frasier'' | Holden Thorpe (voice) | Episode: "The Candidate" |- | 1998 | ''Mad About You'' | Dr. Sydney Warren | Episode: "Cheating on Sheila" |- | rowspan=2 | 2000 | ''Just Shoot Me!'' | Himself | Episode: "A&E Biography: Nina Van Horn" |- | ''King of the Hill'' | Grant Trimble | Voice; Season 4: "Episode 23" |- | 2000–2006 | ''Will & Grace'' | George Truman | 4 episodes |- | 2003 | ''Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin'' | Narrator | Voice; Documentary |- | 2005 | ''One Six Right: The Romance of Flying'' | Himself | Documentary |- | 2006 | ''American Masters'' | Narrator | Episode: "John Ford/John Wayne" |- | rowspan=3 | 2007 | ''The Sopranos'' | Warren Feldman | Episode: "Stage 5" |- | ''Entourage'' | Himself | |- |}
==Accolades== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Award ! Category ! Project ! class="unsortable" | Result |- |1970 || rowspan=7|Academy Awards || Best Director || ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' || {{nom}} |- |rowspan=2|1983 || Best Picture || rowspan=2|''Tootsie'' || {{nom}} |- |Best Director || {{nom}} |- |rowspan=2|1986 || Best Picture || rowspan=2|''Out of Africa'' || {{won}} |- |Best Director || {{won}} |- |2008 || rowspan=2|Best Picture || ''Michael Clayton'' || {{nom}} |- |2009 || ''The Reader'' || {{nom}} |- |1963 || rowspan=5|Primetime Emmy Awards || rowspan=3|Outstanding Directing – Drama Series || ''Ben Casey'' || {{nom}} |- |1964 || rowspan=2|''Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre'' || {{nom}} |- |1966 || {{won}} |- |rowspan=2|2008 || Outstanding Television Movie || ''Recount'' || {{won}} |- |Outstanding Variety Special || ''James Taylor: One Man Band'' || {{nom}} |- |1969 || rowspan=3|Golden Globe Awards || rowspan=3|Best Director || ''They Shoot Horses Don't They?'' || {{nom}} |- |1982 || ''Tootsie'' || {{nom}} |- |1985 || ''Out of Africa'' || {{nom}} |- |rowspan=2|1983 || rowspan=6|British Academy Film Awards || Best Film || rowspan=2|''Tootsie'' || {{nom}} |- |Best Director || {{nom}} |- |1998 || Outstanding British Film || ''Sliding Doors'' || {{nom}} |- |rowspan=2|2003 || Best Film || rowspan=2|''Cold Mountain'' || {{nom}} |- |Outstanding British Film || {{nom}} |- |2008 || Best Film || ''The Reader'' || {{nom}} |- |}
{| class="wikitable" |+Awards and nominations received by Pollack's films |- ! rowspan="2" | Year ! rowspan="2" | Title ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" width=160| Academy Awards ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" width=160| BAFTA Awards ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" width=160| Golden Globe Awards |- ! Nominations ! Wins ! Nominations ! Wins ! Nominations ! Wins |- |1965 |''The Slender Thread'' |align=center|2 | | | |align=center|1 | |- |1966 |''This Property Is Condemned'' | | | | |align=center|1 | |- |1968 |''The Scalphunters'' | | | | |align=center|1 | |- |1969 |''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' |align=center|9 |align=center|1 |align=center|6 |align=center|1 |align=center|6 |align=center|1 |- |1973 |''The Way We Were'' |align=center|6 |align=center|2 |align=center|1 | |align=center|2 |align=center|1 |- |1975 |''Three Days of the Condor'' |align=center|1 | | | |align=center|1 | |- |1977 |''Bobby Deerfield'' | | | | |align=center|1 | |- |1979 |''The Electric Horseman'' |align=center|1 | | | | | |- |1981 |''Absence of Malice'' |align=center|3 | | | |align=center|2 | |- |1982 |''Tootsie'' |align=center|10 |align=center|1 |align=center|9 |align=center|2 |align=center|5 |align=center|3 |- |1985 |''Out of Africa'' |align=center|11 |align=center|7 |align=center|7 |align=center|3 |align=center|6 |align=center|3 |- |1990 |''Havana'' |align=center|1 | | | |align=center|1 | |- |1993 |''The Firm'' |align=center|2 | |align=center|1 | | | |- |1995 |''Sabrina'' |align=center|2 | | | |align=center|3 | |- !colspan="2"|Total !align=center|48 !align=center|11 !align=center|24 !align=center|6 !align=center|30 !align=center|8 |}
'''Directed Academy Award performances'''<br> Under Pollack's direction, these actors have received Academy Award wins and nominations for their performances in their respective roles. {| class="wikitable" !Year !Performer !Film !Result |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|'''Academy Award for Best Actor''' |- |1981 |Paul Newman |''Absence of Malice'' |{{nom}} |- |1982 |Dustin Hoffman |''Tootsie'' |{{nom}} |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|'''Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor''' |- |1969 |Gig Young |''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' |{{won}} |- |1985 |Klaus Maria Brandauer |''Out of Africa'' |{{nom}} |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|'''Academy Award for Best Actress''' |- |1969 |Jane Fonda |''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' |{{nom}} |- |1973 |Barbra Streisand |''The Way We Were'' |{{nom}} |- |1985 |Meryl Streep |''Out of Africa'' |{{nom}} |- | colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|'''Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress''' |- |1969 |Susannah York |''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' |{{nom}} |- |1981 |Melinda Dillon |''Absence of Malice'' |{{nom}} |- | rowspan="2"|1982 |Jessica Lange | rowspan="2"|''Tootsie'' |{{won}} |- |Teri Garr |{{nom}} |- |1993 |Holly Hunter |''The Firm'' |{{nom}} |}
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