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1969 — 2008
The record: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives this city one name, at the raised-here strength, and it is the biggest name on the ledger's screen page. Sydney Pollack — born in Lafayette on 1 July 1934, raised in South Bend, a school-drama actor at South Bend High School and a graduate of its class of 1952 — received seven Academy Award nominations across forty years and won twice, both for Out of Africa (1985): Best Director, and Best Picture as the film's producer. The nominations around the wins map the career: Best Director for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969); Best Director and Best Picture for Tootsie (1982); Best Picture, as a producer of Michael Clayton (2007); and a last Best Picture nomination, posthumous, for The Reader (2008), which reached him after his death on 26 May 2008. His profile, and the correction of the aggregator biographies that misplace his birth in this city, stand in the Famous People section; the ledger entry is the Academy's own arithmetic: seven nominations, two Oscars, one city that raised him.
The rest of the Oscar ledger: No performer or filmmaker born in South Bend stands on the Academy's winners-and-nominees record beside him; the Academy's record gives the South Bend–born Chad Everett, the city's other nationally known screen actor of Pollack's era, no nomination. The line beyond Pollack is empty, and is printed so.
Sources:
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, awards record for Sydney Pollack — Best Director nominations 1969 and 1982; Best Picture nominations for Tootsie (1982), Michael Clayton (2007) and The Reader (2008); wins for Best Director and Best Picture, Out of Africa (1985): seven nominations, two awards.
- The Famous People section of this history — the Lafayette birth, the South Bend upbringing, South Bend High School class of 1952.