Sydney Pollack to Receive Career Award at Austin Film Festival
October 14th, 2006 by Andre Soares
"It was the first film that broke through for me in terms of international attention. I worked on it in a very passionate way with a lot of interesting and talented people. There’s a couple of special things about it. It was the first really serious dramatic role Jane Fonda ever played, and it changed her life. It was right after Barbarella. She got an Academy Award nomination for it. She got away from the comedienne and the sex object and became this serious, heavyweight actress."
That’s Sydney Pollack, reminiscing about his 1969 social drama They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, which stars Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, and Susannah York as Depression Era marathon dancers. Maggie Smith, by the way, won the Best Actress Oscar that year, for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
On Oct. 21, Pollack will receive the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the Austin Film Festival, which runs from Oct. 19-26.
Pollack Quote: Chris Garcia’s interview "A lifetime of film, worthy of (another) award" in the [Austin] American-Statesman, via austin360.com.
The winners at the Austin Film Festival will be posted here on Oct. 26.
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