Pollock began his career as an entertainment lawyer who worked with filmmakers such as George Lucas, who was one of Pollock's first clients.
Spike Lee also has given Pollock credit for standing behind what would become his 1989 masterpiece, in a 2019 interview that Pollock didn't back down when Universal was being pressured not to release the film, or at least push its release back out of the summer months, amid fears of racial unrest.
"Tom Pollock, the president of Universal Pictures, was 100 percent behind the film," Lee recalled. “Universal was not afraid.”Last Temptation of Christ when he received death threats. So, he could have easily said to me, 'Spike, I can't put my family through this again.' He didn’t do that. Tom Pollock was not scared at all."
In 1996, Pollock moved on to become chairman of the American Film Institute. He later founded the Montecito Picture Co. two years later, in which he also served as executive producer on the 2009 Oscar-nominated filmPollock eventually became a member of AFI's Board of Trustees. He became Chairman of the Board in 1996; and during his tenure, AFI debuted its "He had a long, great history at AFI," current AFI chief Bob Gazzale told.
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