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As of 2022, 54 Polish films have been submitted for the award. Thirteen of these submissions resulted in nominations for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, with Ida winning in 2015. Director Andrzej Wajda represented Poland for a record nine times, and four of his films received nominations, also a record. Below is a list of the films that ...
National films. PLN 43.5 million (~€10.4 million) (6.2%) The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish films tend to be less commercially available than films from several other European nations. After World War II, the communist ...
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Feb 23, 2015 · Nine Polish films have been nominees in the Oscar’s foreign-language film category, most recently Agnieszka Holland’s “In Darkness” in 2011, and Andrzej Wajda’s “Katyn” in 2007.
The cinematographer Janusz Kamiński is the most awarded Polish filmmaker. The director Roman Polański won an Oscar and was nominated four more times (additionally, Knife in the Water, a film directed and written by him, was also nominated). There were thirteen Polish pictures nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
YearNameFilmStatus2021Janusz KamińskiNominated2020Nominated2018Łukasz ŻalNominated2014Łukasz Żal Ryszard LenczewskiNominatedThe second half of the 1970s brought three more nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, two for Andrzej Wajda (1975, Promised Land; 1979, The Maids of Wilko), and one for Jerzy Antczak (1976, Nights and Days), and two wins – the 1977 and 1978 Scientific and Technical Awards went to Stefan Kudelski (again!) for the design of the Nagra machine.
Films in Yiddish were an important part of the Polish cinematography of the pre-World War II period. 70 of the 170 Jewish films brought out between 1910 and 1950 were made in Poland. Poland was one of the three main centres of Yiddish culture in the world, along with the United States and the Soviet Union.
Apr 12, 2018 · Andrew Pulver. Sun 22 Feb 2015 21.11 EST. Last modified on Thu 12 Apr 2018 07.34 EDT. Ida, directed by Poland’s Paweł Pawlikowski, has won the Oscar for best foreign language film, defeating ...
