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Paweł Pawlikowski
Born in Poland, raised between Germany and England, married in France – in life as in film Pawlikowski is constantly on the move, swept along by historical tides of change. This sense of displacement defines both his private and professional life, with the latter bringing a number of exceptional films that relay deeply personal moments in Pawlikowski’s history. Though he made his feature debut in 1998 (following a successful early involvement in documentary), Pawlikowski’s name only began to resonate globally within the last ten years. Following successive releases that both brought serious Oscar-attention, he’s now one of Europe’s most exciting art house directors whose stock only seems destined to rise further.
Early Years
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Tribute to Pawlikowski
Pawel Pawlikowski was born in Warsaw and left Poland at the age of fourteen first for the UK, Germany and Italy, before finally settling in the UK in 1977. He studied literature and philosophy in London and Oxford.
Pawlikowski started making documentary films for the BBC in the late 1980s. His documentaries, which include “From Moscow to Pietushki”, “Dostoevsky’s Travels”, “Serbian Epics”, and “Tripping with Zhirinovsky”, have won numerous international awards including an Emmy and the Prix Italia. In 1998, Pawlikowski moved into fiction with a low budget TV film, “Twockers”, which was followed by two full-length features, “Last Resort” and “My Summer of Love”, both of which he wrote and directed. Both films won British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards, as well as many others at festivals around the world. He made “The Woman in the Fifth” in 2011, and “Ida”, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film in 2015, also five European Film Acade
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Pawel Pawlikowski was born in Poland, but moved to England with his mother when he was a teenager. After studying literature and philosophy at Oxford, he established his career as filmmaker, first with documentaries before turning to fiction with such films as Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of Love (2003). But then he traveled back to his native country to man his 2013 Academy Award-winning drama Ida about a 1960s era novitiate who receives life-changing news about her identity. In making the movie, Pawlikowski realized he was home. Now, he has made a new feature, Cold War, about the tumultuous relationship between a singer (Joanna Kulig) and a jazz musician (Tomasz Kot) who fall in love in Stalinist, post-World War II Poland. Pawlikowski won the directing award at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The spelfilm is on the shortlist for the foreign-language Academy Award; won five europeisk Film Awards, including best European film; and received four BAFTA nomina