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For which film did Sydney Pollack receive his Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards?

  • Tootsie

  • Three Days of the Condor

  • Out of Africa

  • Absence of Malice

Answer

Sydney Pollack received the Academy Award for Best Director for Out of Africa. The film, which was directed by Pollack and starred Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, tells the story of a Danish baroness who falls in love with a big-game hunter in Kenya. Out of Africa was a critical and commercial success, and it won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
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