Pollock (film) Pollock (film) Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of American painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan and Sada Thompson, and was directed by Harris. Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife. Ed Harris received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pollock. The film was a long-term personal project for Harris based on his previous reading of Pollock's biography. The film opens "in medias res" to abstract expressionist painter
Pollock-Krasner Foundation artistic achievement and are by nomination only. By 1988 the foundation had already granted over $1.5 million to about 300 "worthy artists who are in need". The Pollock-Krasner Authentication Board, established by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation to examine and rule (for no charge) on disputed works, operated for six years (1990-1996) before dissolving after the completion of the Pollock catalogue raisonné. The board considered hundreds of previously unknown works but admitted only a handful. The foundation still receives legal challenges based on its inclusions and exclusions—a version of authentication in its own right. Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in