Out of Africa (film) American Film Institute recognition Out of Africa (film) Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book "Out of Africa" written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book "Shadows on the Grass" and other sources. The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke, and directed by the American Sydney Pollack. Streep played Karen Blixen; Redford played Denys Finch
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film directing "Apollo 13"); 2000 (Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing "Traffic"); 2002 (Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing "The Pianist"); and 2012 (Ang Lee won the Oscar for directing "Life of Pi" as Ben Affleck was not nominated for directing "Argo"). This does not count 1948–49, when the DGA used a non-calendar award year (unlike the Academy Awards); both 1948 and 1949 DGA winners competed for the 1949 Academy Award for Best Director, which went to the 1948 DGA winner (Joseph L. Mankiewicz for "A Letter to Three Wives"). Conversely, sixteen times has the representing film directed by