Wajda’s movies have been four times nominated for an Oscar for best foreign film.
In 2000, he won an honorary Oscar for his body of work. Wajda won a Golden Palm in Cannes. That was in 1981 with his film The man of iron. In 2006, he received the Berlin Golden Bear for his work.
Wajda is considered the most important director of the Polish film school in the 50′s emerged. Many of his films, such as Kanal (The sewer of horror), Czlowiek z marmuru (The man of marble), and Czlowiek z zelasa (The man of iron) took inspiration from the history of Poland.
As a director he got it in the seventies and eighties regularly have to stick with the communist regime in Poland. He left the country in the beginning of the eighties, went to live in France, but returned in 1989 to return.
Alert
Wajda said, according to BBC ever: “God has a director, two eyes given. A in order to look into the camera, the other to remain alert so that he sees all what is happening around him”.
The filmmaker, was for some time sick, but completed this year his latest film Powidoki (Image) , which is about the Polish artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski. This film is this year’s Polish submission for the Oscar for best foreign film.
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