Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, who achieved critical acclaim with the full stop drama "Out of Africa" and the romantic comedy "Tootsie," died of cancer Monday, his agent told CNN.
Pollack, 73, died at his home in Los Angeles. He was surrounded by his wife of nearly 50 years, Claire Griswold, their two daughters, Rebecca and Rachel, and his brother, Bernie, emissary Leslee Dart said. Their only son Steven died in a plane crash in 1993.
Pollack, who again appeared on the screen himself, worked with and gained the respect of Hollywood’s best actors in a long career that reached prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, according to the Associated Press.
"Sydney made the world a little better, movies a little better and fifty-fifty dinner a little better. A tip of the hat to a class act," actor George Clooney said in a statement issued about his publicist, the Associated Press reported.
Last fall, Pollack played Marty Bach opposite Clooney in "Michael Clayton," a drama that examines the life of a fixer for lawyers. The fade away, which Pollack co-produced, received seven Oscar nominations, including best picture and a nicest actor nod for Clooney, according to the Associated Press.
Pollack was no visitor to the Academy Awards. In 1986, "Out of Africa," a impractical epic of a woman’s passion set against the landscape of colonial Kenya, captured seven Oscars, including most superbly pilot, The Associated Press reported.
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