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
The Hustler (film) role as Fast Eddie Felson in the 1986 film "The Color of Money", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. A number of observers and critics have suggested that this Oscar was in belated recognition for his performance in "The Hustler". In 1997, the Library of Congress selected "The Hustler" for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The Academy Film Archive preserved "The Hustler" in 2003. Carroll and Rossen's screenplay was selected by the Writers Guild of America in 2006 as the 96th best motion