List of Polish Academy Award winners and nominees
This is a list of Polish Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Polish actors, actresses, and films that have either been submitted or nominated for, or have won, an Academy Award. This list is current as of the 80th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 24, 2008. There were 12 Academy Awards given to Polish filmmakers or their work (see Foreign Film category), including two Honorary Academy Awards and a Technical Achievement Award. The category of Cinematography has the strongest presence of Polish filmmakers, with two wins (both by Janusz Kamiński) and five other nominations (including two noms for Kamiński). As of that, the cinematographer Janusz Kamiński is the most Oscar-awarded Polish filmmaker. The second most-awarded Pole was designer Anton Grot, who won one Academy Award and was nominated to the Oscars five times more. The director Roman Polanski won an Oscar and was nominated four more times (additionally, Knife in the Water, film directed and written by him was also nominated). The composer Bronislau Kaper was awarded an Oscar and was nominated three times more.
Academy Honorary Award
This list focuses on Polish-born people of the cinema.
Academy Honorary Award | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1942 | Leopold Stokowski and his associates | Fantasia | Won | "For their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form." They were not awarded the Oscar statuettes, but only the Certificate of Merit. Stokowski is widely considered as Polish, besides his British-born and American-naturalised nationality. |
1999 | Andrzej Wajda | Won | "In recognition of five decades of extraordinary film direction." | |
Scientific and Technical Award
This list focuses on Polish-born filmmakers.
Academy Scientific and Technical Award | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1941 | Anton Grot | Won | (Warner Bros. Studio Art Dept.). "For the design and perfection of the Warner Bros. water ripple and wave illusion machine." | |
1965 | Stefan Kudelski | Won | "For the design and perfection of the Nagra machine." | |
1977 | Stefan Kudelski | Won | "For the design and perfection of the Nagra machine." | |
1978 | Stefan Kudelski | Won | "For the design and perfection of the Nagra machine." | |
1988 | Tad Krzanowski | Won | "For the development of a Wire Rig Model Support Mechanism used to control the movements of miniatures in special effects." | |
Best Actress- Leading
This list focuses on Polish-born actresses.
Academy Award for Best Actress | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1967 | Ida Kamińska | The Shop on Main Street | Nominated | |
Best Art Direction
This list focuses on Polish-born scenic designers.
Art Direction | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1931 | Anton Grot | Svengali | Nominated | |
1937 | Anton Grot | Anthony Adverse | Nominated | |
1938 | Anton Grot | The Life of Emile Zola | Nominated | |
1940 | Anton Grot | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex | Nominated | |
1941 | Anton Grot | The Sea Hawk | Nominated | Best Art Direction, Black-and-White |
1994 | Ewa Braun Allan Starski |
Schindler's List | Won | |
Best Costume Design
This list focuses on Polish-born costume designers.
Academy Award for Best Costume Design | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1994 | Anna B. Sheppard | Schindler's List | Nominated | |
2003 | Anna B. Sheppard | The Pianist | Nominated | |
2014 | Anna B. Sheppard | Maleficent | Nominated |
Best Cinematography
This list focuses on Polish-born cinematographers.
Cinematography | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1940 | Rudolph Maté | Foreign Correspondent | Nominated | |
1941 | Rudolph Maté | That Hamilton Woman | Nominated | |
1942 | Rudolph Maté | The Pride of the Yankees | Nominated | |
1943 | Rudolph Maté | Sahara | Nominated | |
1944 | Rudolph Maté | Cover Girl | Nominated | Shared with Allen M. Davey |
1993 | Janusz Kamiński | Schindler's List | Won | |
1994 | Piotr Sobocinski | Three Colors: Red | Nominated | (original title: Trois couleurs: Rouge) |
1997 | Janusz Kamiński | Amistad | Nominated | |
1998 | Janusz Kamiński | Saving Private Ryan | Won | |
2001 | Slawomir Idziak | Black Hawk Down | Nominated | |
2002 | Pawel Edelman | The Pianist | Nominated | |
2007 | Janusz Kamiński | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Nominated | |
2011 | Janusz Kamiński | War Horse | Nominated | |
2012 | Janusz Kamiński | Lincoln | Nominated | |
2014 | Łukasz Żal | Ida | Nominated |
Best Director
This list focuses on Polish-born directors.
Director | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1974 | Roman Polanski | Chinatown | Nominated | Polanski is a French-born Polish director. |
1980 | Roman Polanski | Tess | Nominated | |
1994 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Three Colors: Red | Nominated | |
2002 | Roman Polanski | The Pianist | Won | First (and only) Polish director to win Best Director. |
Best Picture
This list focuses on Polish-born producers and/or Polish films in a different meaning.
Academy Award for Best Picture | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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2002 | Roman Polanski | The Pianist | Nominated | Polanski is a French-born Polish producer. Nominated with Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde |
Best Foreign Language Film
This list focuses on essentially Polish films and directors and producers of other non-English language films.
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1963 | Roman Polanski | Knife in the Water | Nominated | |
1966 | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Faraon | Nominated | |
1974 | Jerzy Hoffman | The Deluge | Nominated | |
1975 | Andrzej Wajda | Land of Promise | Nominated | |
1976 | Jerzy Antczak | Nights and Days | Nominated | |
1979 | Andrzej Wajda | The Maids of Wilko | Nominated | |
1981 | Andrzej Wajda | Man of Iron | Nominated | |
2007 | Andrzej Wajda | Katyń | Nominated | |
2011 | Agnieszka Holland | In Darkness | Nominated | |
2014 | Paweł Pawlikowski | Ida | Won |
Best Original Music Score
This list focuses on Polish-born composers.
Original Score | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1942 | Bronisław Kaper | The Chocolate Soldier | Nominated | Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture |
1953 | Bronisław Kaper | Lili | Won | Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture |
1962 | Bronisław Kaper | Mutiny on the Bounty | Nominated | Best Music, Score - Substantially Original |
2004 | Jan A. P. Kaczmarek | Finding Neverland | Won | Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score |
Best Original Song
This list focuses on Polish-born composers and writers.
Academy Award for Best Original Song | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Song | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1962 | Bronisław Kaper | Mutiny on the Bounty | "Follow" | Nominated | Shared with Paul Francis Webster. |
2013 | Karen Orzolek | Her | "The Moon Song" | Nominated | Shared with Spike Jonze. Orzolek is Polish-Korean. |
Best Documentary Feature
This list focuses on Polish-born filmmakers.
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1943 | Eugeniusz Cękalski | The White Eagle | Nominated | A Polish-British co-production; the nomination was credited to Cocanen Films and not to the director, who was Eugeniusz Cękalski. |
Best Live Action Short Film
This list focuses on Polish-born filmmakers.
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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2001 | Sławomir Fabicki Bogumił Godfrejow |
A Man Thing | Nominated | |
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
This list focuses on Polish-born filmmakers.
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1973 | Tadeusz Jaworski | Selling Out | Nominated | |
1995 | Marcel Łoziński | 89mm from Europe | Nominated | |
2005 | Hanna Polak Andrzej Celiński |
The Children of Leningradsky | Nominated | |
2010 | Bartek Konopka | Rabbit à la Berlin | Nominated | |
2014 | Aneta Kopacz | Joanna | Nominated | |
2014 | Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki | Our Curse | Nominated | |
Best Short Film – Animated
This list focuses on Polish-born filmmakers.
Academy Award for Animated Short Film | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes | |
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1982 | Zbigniew Rybczyński | Tango | Won | ||
2002 | Tomek Baginski | The Cathedral | Nominated | ||
2008 | Maciek Szczerbowski | Madame Tutli-Putli | Nominated | A Canadian film co-directed (with Chris Lavis) and co-written (with another Pole, Maciek Tomaszewski, and Chris Lavis) by Maciek Szczerbowski. Nomination shared with Chris Lavis. | |
Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
This list focuses on Polish-born screenplay writers.
Academy Award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay) | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1968 | Roman Polanski | Rosemary's Baby | Nominated | Polanski is a French-born Polish writer. |
1991 | Agnieszka Holland | Europa Europa | Nominated |
Best Writing – Original Screenplay
This list focuses on Polish-born screenplay writers.
Academy Award for Writing (Original Screenplay) | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone/Notes |
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1994 | Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz |
Three Colors: Red | Nominated | |