FrameThrower · Actors · Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack
2 films · 125 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1999–2007
Born 1 July 1934 · Lafayette, Indiana, USA · died 26 May 2008
Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor. Pollack is known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films. During his forty-year career, 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.
Pollack won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for Out of Africa (1985). He was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and Tootsie (1982).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 125 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1999–2007
- Academy Award for Best Director1986
- Academy Award for Best Picture1986
- Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama1985
- Berlinale Camera1986
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series1966
- National Board of Review Award for Best Film
How their films are shot
Measured across 125 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sydney takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 70% of their frames are night, 59% low key — the look of the work Sydney takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 125 frames from Sydney Pollack's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.