Question: Which of the following directors won an Academy Award for his 1985 film "Out of Africa": Jim Sharman or Sydney Pollack?

Context articles: Sketches of Frank Gehry
Ellen Akins
Jim Sharman
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Shock Treatment
Sydney Pollack
Kurt Luedtke
Out of Africa (film)
Anne Looby
Shirley Thompson vs. the Aliens

Sketches of Frank Gehry is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Sydney Pollack and produced by Ultan Guilfoyle, about the life and work of the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry.
 The film was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
 Pollack and Gehry had been friends and mutual admirers for years.
 The film features footage of various Gehry-designed buildings, including Anaheim Ice (the training rink of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim), the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
 It was the final film to be directed by Sydney Pollack before his death in 2008.
Ellen Akins is an American novelist from South Bend, Indiana.
 She graduated from LaSalle High School in 1977, earning a BA in film production at the University of Southern California before working with Sydney Pollack.
 After losing interest in the film business, Akins enrolled in the creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University.
 In April 1993 she was awarded the Academy Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her fiction writing; she has also been given grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and won the Whiting Award in 1989.
James David Sharman (born 12 March 1945), the son of boxing tent entrepreneur Jimmy Sharman, is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit.
 He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, and is best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit "The Rocky Horror Show", its film adaptation "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975) and the film's follow-up "Shock Treatment" (1981).
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 British-American musical screwball comedy horror film by 20th Century Fox produced by Lou Adler and Michael White and directed by Jim Sharman.
 The screenplay was written by Sharman and actor Richard O'Brien, who appears in the film, which is based on the 1973 musical stage production "of the same title", with music, book, and lyrics by O'Brien.
 The production is a parody tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1970s.
 Along with O'Brien, the film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick and is narrated by Charles Gray with cast members from the original Royal Court Theatre, Roxy Theatre, and Belasco Theatre productions.
Shock Treatment is a 1981 American black comedy musical film directed by Jim Sharman, and co-written by Sharman and Richard O'Brien.
 It is a follow-up to the 1975 film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor.
 Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 films or shows, and produced over 44 films.
 His 1985 film "Out of Africa" won him Academy Awards for directing and producing; he was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
" (1969) and "Tootsie" (1982), in the latter of which he also appeared.
Kurt Luedtke (born September 28, 1939) is an American screenwriter.
 He is best known for writing "Out of Africa" (1985), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as "Absence of Malice" (1981) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay) and "Random Hearts" (1999).
 All three films were directed by Sydney Pollack.
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.
 This film received 28 film awards, including seven Academy Awards.
Anne Looby, is an Australian actress and stage director, since graduating from NIDA in 1988, Anne Looby has worked in film, television and theatre.
 Her theatrical experience is extensive, having worked with some of the best directors in Australia including Gale Edwards, Rodney Fisher, Jim Sharman and George Ogilvy, on work ranging from the classics to contemporary theatre.
 Looby has also worked extensively in film and television, appearing in such television classics as A Country Practice and the award winning ABC mini-series Simone De Beauvoir’s Babies.
 She has appeared in the feature films "Willfull", "Daydream Believer" and most recently with John Malkovich in Disgrace.
 Looby received the Sydney Theatre Critics award for Best Actress in Arcadia for the STC and has also been awarded an AFI as Best Actress in a TV Mini Series for her performance in Simone De Beauvoir’s Babies.
Shirley Thompson vs. the Aliens is a 1972 film directed by Jim Sharman and starring Jane Harders and Helmut Bakaitis.
 It is the first feature-length film from Sharman, who subsequently directed "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975).