1934 - 2008 - What Would Tyler Durden Do

RIP director Sydney Pollack, age 73, cancer

He was nominated three times for the Best Director Oscar (Tootsie, Out of Africa, They Shoot Horses ...") All of his films rated 6.7 or higher come from the period 1965-85, an era that was topped off nicely by the Oscar for Out of Africa in 1985.

• (7.69) - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
  
• (7.58) - The Swimmer (1968)
  
• (7.50) - Three Days of the Condor (1975)
  
• (7.40) - Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
  
• (7.40) - Tootsie (1982)
  
• (7.19) - The Yakuza (1974)
  
• (7.08) - The Slender Thread (1965)
  
• (6.90) - Out of Africa (1985)
  
• (6.81) - This Property Is Condemned (1966)
  
• (6.80) - Absence of Malice (1981)
  
• (6.80) - The Way We Were (1973)
  
• (6.72) - The Scalphunters (1968)
  
• (6.60) - The Firm (1993)
  
• (6.50) - The Interpreter (2005)
  
• (6.17) - Castle Keep (1969)
  
• (6.00) - Sabrina (1995)
  
• (5.92) - The Electric Horseman (1979)
  
• (5.83) - Havana (1990/I)
  
• (5.49) - Bobby Deerfield (1977)
  
• (4.71) - Random Hearts (1999)