Pollock
Directed by	Ed Harris
Starring	Ed Harris Marcia Gay Harden
Music by	Jeff Beal
Cinematography	Lisa Rinzler
Editing by	Kathryn Himoff
Release date(s)	September 6, 2000
Running time	122 min
Language	English

Pollock is a 2000 biographical drama film which tells the life story of painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Production 3 Awards 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Cast

• Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock
• Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner
• Tom Bower as Dan Miller
• Jennifer Connelly as Ruth Kligman
• Bud Cort as Howard Putzel
• John Heard as Tony Smith
• Val Kilmer as Willem de Kooning
• Amy Madigan as Peggy Guggenheim
• Sally Murphy as Edith Metzger
• Stephanie Seymour as Helen Frankenthaler
• Matthew Sussman as Reuben Kadish
• Jeffrey Tambor as Clement Greenberg
• Norbert Weisser as Hans Namuth
• Everett Quinton as James Johnson Sweeney
• John Rothman as Harold Rosenberg
• Kenny Scharf as William Baziotes

[edit] Production

The movie was adapted by Barbara Turner and Susan Emshwiller from the book Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. It was directed by Harris.

This film was a long term dream of Ed Harris.^[1] After his father gave him a copy of Pollock's biography, he started thinking about the project, which took almost 10 years to bring to fruition.

Filming took a mere 50 days with a six week layoff after forty days so Harris could take time to gain thirty pounds and grow a beard.^[2]

Harris himself did all the painting seen in the film. ^[2]

Pollock holds a 82% and it is also a "Certified Fresh" at Rotten Tomatoes.

[edit] Awards

Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife.^[3]. Ed Harris was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.^[3]

Harden was also nominated at the Independent Spirit Awards and won at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards.^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Pollock at the Internet Movie Database
• Breathing fire into an artist
• Ed Harris interview at IndieWire

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