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 Kaminski) and five other nominations (including two noms for Kaminski). As of that, the cinematographer Janusz Kaminski 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
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
1941	Anton Grot		Won	(Warner Bros. Studio Art Dept.). "For the design and perfection of the Warner Bros. water ripple and wave illusion machine."

Best Leading Actress

This list focuses on Polish-born actresses.

Academy Award for Best Actress
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1967	Ida Kaminska	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
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
1994	Anna B. Sheppard	Schindler's List	Nominated
2003	Anna B. Sheppard	The Pianist	Nominated

Best cinematography

This list focuses on Polish-born cinematographers.

Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
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

Best Director

This list focuses on Polish-born directors.

Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1974	Roman Polanski	Chinatown	Nominated	Polanski is a French-born Polish director.
1980	Roman Polanski	Tess	Nominated
1994	Krzysztof Kieslowski	Three Colors: Red	Nominated
2002	Roman Polanski	The Pianist	Won	First (and only) Polish director to win Best Director.

Best Film

This list focuses on Polish-born producers, directors and Polish films in a different meaning.

Academy Award for Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
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
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
2006	Peter Fudakowski	Tsotsi	Won	A South African (the award was credited to it) film produced by Peter Fudakowski and directed by Gavin Hood.
2007	Andrzej Wajda	Katyń	Nominated

Best Original Music Score

This list focuses on Polish-born composers.

Original Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1942	Bronislau Kaper	The Chocolate Soldier	Nominated	Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
1954	Bronislau Kaper	Lili	Won	Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
1963	Bronislau 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	Status	Milestone/Notes
1963	Bronislau Kaper	Mutiny on the Bounty	Nominated	For the song "Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me)". Shared with Paul Francis Webster, who wrote lyrics.

Best Documentary Feature

This list focuses on Polish-born filmmakers.

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
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
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
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

Best Short Film – Animated

This list focuses on Polish-born filmmakers.

Academy Award for Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
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 an another Pole, Maciek Tomaszewski, and Chris Lavis) by Maciek Szczerbowski. Nomination shared with Chris Lavis.
2008	Suzie Templeton Hugh Welchman	Peter & the Wolf	Won	An international co-production with major Polish and British contributions; produced by and made in the Se-ma-for studios in Łódź, Poland.

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay

This list focuses on Polish-born screenplay writers.

Academy Award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
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
1994	Krzysztof Kieslowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz	Three Colors: Red	Nominated

See also

• Cinema of Poland