List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Poland

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees who identify or are identified as Polish and/or whose career is associated predominantly with Poland. The list is current as of the 98th Academy Awards nominations. There were fifteen Academy Awards given to Polish filmmakers for their work, including one Honorary Academy Award, one Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, and one Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. 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). Thirteen Polish pictures have been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and one has won.

Best Actress in a Leading Role Academy Award for Best ActressYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1967 Ida Kamińska The Shop on Main Street

Best Director DirectorYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1974 Roman Polański Chinatown Polański holds dual Polish and French citizenship. 1980 Tess 1994 Krzysztof Kieślowski Three Colours: Red 2002 Roman Polański The Pianist First Polish director to win the award. 2018 Paweł Pawlikowski Cold War First Polish director nominated for a Polish language film.

Best Picture Academy Award for Best PictureYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 2002 Roman Polański The Pianist The film was a French-British-Polish co-production.

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay)YearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1968 Roman Polański Rosemary's Baby 1991 Agnieszka Holland Europa Europa

Best Writing – Original Screenplay Academy Award for Writing (Original Screenplay)YearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1994 Krzysztof KieślowskiKrzysztof Piesiewicz Three Colours: Red

Best Cinematography CinematographyYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1993 Janusz Kamiński Schindler's List 1994 Piotr Sobociński Three Colours: Red (French title: Trois couleurs: Rouge; Polish title: Trzy kolory: Czerwony) 1997 Janusz Kamiński Amistad 1998 Saving Private Ryan 2001 Sławomir Idziak Black Hawk Down 2002 Paweł Edelman The Pianist 2007 Janusz Kamiński The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2011 War Horse 2012 Lincoln 2014 Łukasz ŻalRyszard Lenczewski Ida 2018 Łukasz Żal Cold War 2020 Dariusz Wolski News of the World 2021 Janusz Kamiński West Side Story

Best International Feature Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language FilmYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1963 Roman Polanski Knife in the Water 1966 Jerzy Kawalerowicz Pharaoh 1974 Jerzy Hoffman The Deluge 1975 Andrzej Wajda Land of Promise 1976 Jerzy Antczak Nights and Days 1979 Andrzej Wajda The Maids of Wilko 1981 Man of Iron 2007 Katyń 2011 Agnieszka Holland In Darkness 2014 Paweł Pawlikowski Ida 2018 Cold War 2019 Jan Komasa Corpus Christi 2022 Jerzy Skolimowski EO

Best Art Direction Art DirectionYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1994 Ewa BraunAllan Starski Schindler's List

Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Costume DesignYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1994 Anna B. Sheppard Schindler's List 2003 The Pianist 2014 Maleficent 2025Malgosia TurzanskaHamnet

Best Original Music Score Original ScoreYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1941 Bronisław Kaper The Chocolate Soldier Shared with Herbert Stothart;Best Achievement in Scoring of a Musical Picture 1953 Lili Best Achievement in Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty Best Achievement in Music Score — Substantially Original 2004 Jan A. P. Kaczmarek Finding Neverland Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

Best Original Song Original SongYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1962 Bronisław Kaper Mutiny on the Bounty For the song ″Follow Me″;shared with Paul Francis Webster.

Best Live Action Short Film Academy Award for Best Live Action Short FilmYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 2001 Sławomir FabickiBogumił Godfrejow A Man Thing 2021Tadeusz ŁysiakMaciej ŚlesickiThe Dress

Best Documentary (Feature) Academy Award for Best Documentary (Feature)YearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 2024 Aniela Sidorska Porcelain War Shared with Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, and Paula DuPré Pesmen

Best Documentary (Short Subject) Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)YearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1995 Marcel Łoziński 89mm from Europe 2005 Hanna PolakAndrzej Celiński The Children of Leningradsky 2010 Bartosz KonopkaAnna Wydra Rabbit à la Berlin 2014 Aneta Kopacz Joanna Tomasz ŚliwińskiMaciej Ślesicki Our Curse

Best Animated Short Film Academy Award for Animated Short FilmYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1982 Zbigniew Rybczyński Tango 2002 Tomasz Bagiński The Cathedral 2007Maciek SzczerbowskiMadame Tutli-Putli Shared with Chris Lavis. Szczerbowski is a Polish-born Canadian animator.2025Maciek SzczerbowskiThe Girl Who Cried Pearls

Best Animated Feature This list focuses on Polish-born filmmakers.

Academy Award for Best Animated FeatureYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 2017 Dorota Kobiela Loving Vincent A Polish–British film co-directed with Hugh Welchman.

Academy Honorary Award Academy Honorary AwardYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes 1999 Andrzej Wajda— "In recognition of five decades of extraordinary film direction."

Technical & Scientific Awards Technical/Scientific AwardsYearNameFilmStatusMilestone / Notes1940Anton Grot—For the design and perfection of the Warner Bros. water ripple and wave illusion machine.1965Stefan Kudelski For the design and development of the Nagra portable 1/4" tape recording system for motion picture sound recording.1977For the engineering of the improvements incorporated in the Nagra 4.2L sound recorder for motion picture production.1978 For the continuing research, design and development of the Nagra Production Sound Recorder for Motion Pictures.1987 Tadeusz Krzanowski For the development of a Wire Rig Model Support Mechanism used to control the movements of miniatures in special effects.

Nominations and winners No. of winsNo. of nominations 15 66

See also

Cinema of Poland