Award-winning director Sydney Pollack passed away over the weekend, succumbing to cancer at the age of 73. Pollack was probably best known as the director of Tootsie (1983) and The Firm (1993). Pollack earned widespread acclaim, and an Oscar nomination, for his existential Depression melodrama They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969), featuring Fonda's searing performance as a self-immolating contestant in a dance marathon. He won producing and directing Oscars for his handsome, attenuated adaptation of Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa (1985). This untimely death racks up 27 points for yours truly, pulling close to Gaston Moon.
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