# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-pollard
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:03:38.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-pollard"
name: "Sam Pollard"
slug: "sam-pollard"
description: "Samuel D. Pollard is an American film director, editor, producer, and screenwriter. His films have garnered numerous awards such as Peabodys, Emmys, and an Academy Award nomination. In 2020, the International Documentary Association gave him a career achievement award. Spike Lee, whose films Pollard has edited and produced, described him as being \"a master filmmaker.\" Henry Louis Gates Jr. characterizes Pollard's work in this way: \"When I think about his documentaries, they add up to a corpus — a way of telling African-American history in its various dimensions.\""
tagline: "American director, film editor, screenwriter and producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_D._Pollard%2C_Peabody_Awards_(cropped)(rotated)(May_2011).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           46.33
  momentum:             5.099818511796734
  historical:           6.563285333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689498/"
    handle:    "nm0689498"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pollard_(regisseur)"
    title: "Sam Pollard (regisseur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pollard_(Filmemacher)"
    title: "Sam Pollard (Filmemacher)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pollard_(filmmaker)"
    title: "Sam Pollard (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pollard"
    title: "Samuel Pollard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "سم پولارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pollard"
    title: "Samuel Pollard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3471205"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18747"
    title: "Sam Pollard"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump