Pollock (film) was 280 theaters and it ended up earning $8,598,593 domestically and $1,960,377 internationally for a total of $10,558,970. Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife. Ed Harris was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Harden was also nominated at the Independent Spirit Awards and won at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards while Harris won the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards. The soundtrack to "Pollock" was released on February 13, 2001. Pollock (film) Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of American
Jack Pollock from the Ontario College of Art (OCAD) in 1954 and subsequently studied at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art in London, England. Afterwards, he returned to Canada and was employed as a colour consultant for a paint company. Pollock's employment was terminated as he had a psychological breakdown which required hospitalization. During his time in the hospital, Pollock experienced the benefits of art therapy which led him to open the Pollock Gallery in 1960. In 1962, while teaching art classes in Northern Ontario (funded by the Ontario Government), Pollock met Norval Morrisseau, a local Ojibwa artist. Pollock immediately recognized