Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor
For the Polish rowing coxswain, see Jerzy Skolimowski (rowing).
Jerzy Skolimowski
Skolimowski at the 10th Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival in 2016
Born
(1938-05-05) 5 May 1938 (age 86)
Łódź, Poland
Alma mater
Łódź Film School
Occupation(s)
Filmmaker, director, screenwriter, actor, painter
Years active
1960–present
Spouses
Elżbieta Czyżewska
(m. 1958; div. 1965)
Joanna Szczerbic
(m. 1966; div. 2014)
Ewa Piaskowska[1]
Children
2
Jerzy Skolimowski (Polish:[ˈjɛʐɨskɔliˈmɔfskʲi], born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist, actor and painter.[2] Beginning as a screenwriter for Andrzej Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers (1960), Skolimowski has made more than twenty films since his directorial debut The Menacing Eye (1960). In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his Belgian film The Departure (1967). Among his other notable films is Deep End (1970), starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown.[3]
He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He returned to Poland, and to filmmaking as a writer and director, after a 17-year hiatus with Four Nights with Anna (2008).
He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. His film EO (2022) was awarded the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
^Shaffer, Marshall. "Interview: Jerzy Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska on Changing Hearts with EO". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
^"JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI – PAINTINGS". artefakt-berlin.de. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
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