LOS ANGELES - Friends, family and show business colleagues reportedly held a private ceremony on the weekend to remember late Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack.
A person with knowledge of the service insisted on anonymity because the family wanted details of Saturday's memorial to be kept private.
The 73-year-old director, producer and actor died of cancer May 26 while surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles.
Pollack won Academy Awards for best picture and best director for the 1985 epic "Out of Africa."
In a career spanning nearly five decades, he directed over 20 films, including "The Firm," "Havana" and "Absence of Malice."
The last film he directed was the 2006 documentary "Sketches of Frank Gehry."
Pollack had worked with seemingly every A-list star in the business: Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, Nicole Kidman, Barbra Streisand and George Clooney.
He collaborated with Robert Redford on seven films, including "Out of Africa," 1973's "The Way We Were," 1975's "Three Days of the Condor" and 1979's "The Electric Horseman."
While best known as a director, Pollack frequently stepped in front of the camera. He played the agent of Dustin Hoffman's cross-dressing soap star in 1982's "Tootsie," which he also directed, and the old-school law firm boss in 2007's "Michael Clayton," which he also co-produced.
He also appeared on "Will & Grace," "Entourage" and "The Sopranos."
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