Polish Film Award, or Eagle ( pl, Polska Nagroda Filmowa, „Orzeł”) is a
film award
Film award is a cinematic award which can be awarded in several categories. Unlike the film festival, the film award is not accompanied by a public screening of competitive films. Film awards are usually awarded based on the results of a secret vot ...
s ceremony given annually since 1999, with the first event held on 21 June, by the National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers (KIPA). Since 2003 they are given out by the
Polish Film Academy
The Polish Film Academy (Polish: ''Polska Akademia Filmowa'') is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures.
History
The Academy, founded in 2003, is composed of about 600 mo ...
. Their status in the Polish film industry can be compared with
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
.
Awards
List of main categories:
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Best Film
This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards.
Best Actor/Best Actress
*See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...
Best Actress
Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress aw ...
Film Score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...
– since 1999
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Director
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''D ...
– since 1999
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Screenplay
''ScreenPlay'' is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993.
Background
After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, fe ...
– since 1999
*
Cinematography
Cinematography (from ancient Greek κίνημα, ''kìnema'' "movement" and γράφειν, ''gràphein'' "to write") is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.
Cinematographers use a lens to focu ...
– since 1999
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Costume Design
Costume design is the creation of clothing for the overall appearance of a character or performer. Costume may refer to the style of dress particular to a nation, a class, or a period. In many cases, it may contribute to the fullness of the arti ...
– since 2001
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Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the ...
– since 1999
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Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, orga ...
TV Series
A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed betw ...
– since 2015
Special awards:
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Audience Award An audience award is typically an award at a film festival (or some other type of cultural festival or similar competition) which is selected by the audience attending the festival, rather than by the festival jury or a group of critics.
Example ...
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Special Award
Special or specials may refer to:
Policing
* Specials, Ulster Special Constabulary, the Northern Ireland police force
* Specials, Special Constable, an auxiliary, volunteer, or temporary; police worker or police officer
Literature
* ''Specia ...
Volhynia
Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. Th ...
'' (2017) (14 nominations)
* 8 wins – ''
Reverse
Reverse or reversing may refer to:
Arts and media
* ''Reverse'' (Eldritch album), 2001
* ''Reverse'' (2009 film), a Polish comedy-drama film
* ''Reverse'' (2019 film), an Iranian crime-drama film
* ''Reverse'' (Morandi album), 2005
* ''Reverse'' ...
'' (2009) (13 nominations)
* 8 wins – '' The Pianist'' (2002) (13 nominations)
* 7 wins – ''25 Years of Innocence'' (2020) (15 nominations)
* 7 wins – ''
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...
'' (2019) (12 nominations)
* 7 wins – ''
Gods
A deity or god is a supernatural being who is considered divine or sacred. The ''Oxford Dictionary of English'' defines deity as a god or goddess, or anything revered as divine. C. Scott Littleton defines a deity as "a being with powers greater ...
'' (2015) (13 nominations)
* 7 wins – ''
Rose
A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be ...
The Collector
''The Collector'' is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhous ...
'' (2005) (8 nominations)
* 7 wins – ''
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
''Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease'' ( pl, Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową) is a 2000 Polish drama film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It was Poland's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy ...
My Nikifor
''My Nikifor'' ( pl, Mój Nikifor) is a 2004 Polish drama film directed by Krzysztof Krauze. It is based on the life of Nikifor, a folk and naïve painter.
Cast
* Krystyna Feldman as Nikifor
*Roman Gancarczyk as Marian Włosiński
* Lucyna Ma ...
Little Moscow
Little Moscow was a term for towns and villages in capitalist societies whose population appeared to hold extreme left-wing political values or communist views. The places so named were typically in working class areas, normally with strong trade ...
Pornografia
''Pornografia'' is a 1960 novel by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. The narrative revolves around two middle-aged Warsawian intellectuals, who during a trip to the countryside during World War II construct a scheme to entice two teenagers in a ...
Kinga Preis
Kinga Anna Preis (born 31 August 1971, in Wrocław) is a Polish film and theatre actress.
Life and career
She graduated from Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in 1996. In 2006, she received the Zbigniew Cybulski Award for best young ...
– 16 nominations, 6 awards
*
Agata Kulesza
Agata Kulesza-Figurska (; born 27 September 1971) is a Polish film, television and stage actress, and a member of the Polish Film Academy.
Stanisława Celińska
Stanisława Celińska (born 29 April 1947 in Warsaw, Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has ...
– 5 nominations, 2 awards
*
Danuta Szaflarska
Danuta Szaflarska (; 6 February 1915 – 19 February 2017) was a Polish film and stage actress. In 2008 she was awarded the Złota Kaczka for the best Polish actress of the century. Szaflarska participated in the Warsaw Uprising as a liaison. Sz ...
– 5 nominations, 2 awards
*
Maja Ostaszewska
Maja Ostaszewska (born 3 September 1972) is a Polish actress.
Biography
She was born in Kraków, the daughter of Polish musician Jacek Ostaszewski, of the Ostoja Clan. Ostaszewska was raised Buddhist. She started her acting training in her n ...
– 5 nominations, 2 awards
*
Danuta Stenka
Danuta Stenka (born 10 October 1961 in Sierakowice, Poland) is a Polish actress. She is one of the leading Polish film and theatre actresses.
Life and career
From 1991, she spent a decade working at Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw, then at TR Wars ...
– 4 nominations, 2 awards
*
Joanna Kulig
Joanna Kulig (; born 24 June 1982) is a Polish actress and singer, best known for her role in the 2018 historical drama film ''Cold War'', which earned her the European Film Award for Best Actress. Her other notable credits include the films '' ...
Krystyna Feldman
Krystyna Zofia Feldman (1 March 1916 – 24 January 2007) was a Polish actress.
Life and career
Born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) to a Catholic mother, Katarzyna Sawicka, an opera singer and a Jewish father, Ferdynand Feldm ...
– 2 nominations, 2 awards
Most wins by actors
*
Janusz Gajos
Janusz Gajos (; born 23 September 1939) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer. Professor of Theatre Arts and an Honorary Doctor of the National Film School in Łódź, he is considered one of the gr ...
– 12 nominations, 5 awards
*
Robert Więckiewicz
Robert Więckiewicz (born 30 June 1967) is a Polish film and television actor from Nowa Ruda, Poland. In 2013, he received Best Actor Award at the Chicago International Film Festival for his role in film ''Walesa: Man of Hope''.
Selected filmogra ...
– 8 nominations, 5 awards
*
Arkadiusz Jakubik
Arkadiusz Jakubik (; born 14 January 1969 in Strzelce Opolskie) is a Polish actor, scriptwriter, voice actor and musician. Known mainly for portrayal of a disabled cop Rysio in '' 13 posterunek'' sitcom and for wide collaboration with Wojciech Sm ...
– 9 nominations, 4 awards
*
Jan Frycz
Jan Frycz (born 15 May 1954) is a Polish screen and stage actor. He was nominated for six Polish Academy Awards, winning twice for his supporting roles in the films '' Pornografia'' (2003) and '' The Welts'' (2004).
Biography
Frycz's father ...
– 8 nominations, 3 awards
*
Jacek Braciak
Jacek Braciak (born 12 May 1968) is a Polish film and theater actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1991. He received the Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for '' Edi'' and ''Rose''.
Selected filmography
* '' Edi'' (2002 ...
Dawid Ogrodnik
Dawid Ogrodnik (born 28 May 1986, Wągrowiec) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than ten films since 2010.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1986 births
Living people
Polish film actors
Polish male film actors
Po ...
- 5 nominations, 2 awards
*
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Zbigniew Zamachowski (; born 17 July 1961) is a Polish actor.
Life and career
He was born on 17 July 1961 in Brzeziny near Łódź. Zamachowski graduated from the actor's faculty of the National Film School in Łódź. He began his acting caree ...
– 5 nominations, 2 awards
Most nominations
*
Kinga Preis
Kinga Anna Preis (born 31 August 1971, in Wrocław) is a Polish film and theatre actress.
Life and career
She graduated from Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in 1996. In 2006, she received the Zbigniew Cybulski Award for best young ...
– 16 nominations for best actress
* Marek Wronko – 12 nominations for best sound editing
*
Wojciech Kilar
Wojciech Kilar (; 17 July 1932 – 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and film music composer. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's '' Bram Stoker's Dracula'' in 1992, which received the ASCAP Award ...
– 10 nominations for best score
* Wanda Zeman – 10 nominations for best film editing
* Magdalena Biedrzycka – 10 nominations for best costume design
*
Jagna Janicka
Jagna Janicka (born 1959) is a Polish film and stage costume and scene designer.Jagna Janicka a profi ...
– 10 nominations (7 for best costume design and 3 for best production design)
* Nikodem Wołk-Łaniewski – 9 nominations for sound editing
*
Janusz Gajos
Janusz Gajos (; born 23 September 1939) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer. Professor of Theatre Arts and an Honorary Doctor of the National Film School in Łódź, he is considered one of the gr ...
– 9 nominations for best actor
Most wins overall
*
Krzysztof Ptak
Krzysztof Ptak (3 April 1954 – 19 August 2016) was a Polish cinematographer.
Ptak was born in Sulejów in 1954. He graduated from the National Film School in Łódź in 1980 and began his film career by making documentaries. He co-operated ...
– 7 awards for best cinematography
* Jacek Hamela – 6 awards for best sound editing
*
Kinga Preis
Kinga Anna Preis (born 31 August 1971, in Wrocław) is a Polish film and theatre actress.
Life and career
She graduated from Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in 1996. In 2006, she received the Zbigniew Cybulski Award for best young ...
– 5 awards for best actress
*
Janusz Gajos
Janusz Gajos (; born 23 September 1939) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer. Professor of Theatre Arts and an Honorary Doctor of the National Film School in Łódź, he is considered one of the gr ...
– 5 awards (4 for best actor and 1 lifetime achievement award)
*
Wojciech Kilar
Wojciech Kilar (; 17 July 1932 – 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and film music composer. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's '' Bram Stoker's Dracula'' in 1992, which received the ASCAP Award ...
– 4 awards for best score
*
Robert Więckiewicz
Robert Więckiewicz (born 30 June 1967) is a Polish film and television actor from Nowa Ruda, Poland. In 2013, he received Best Actor Award at the Chicago International Film Festival for his role in film ''Walesa: Man of Hope''.
Selected filmogra ...
– 4 awards for best actress
"Big Five" winners and nominees
The following is a list of films that won the awards for Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay.
Winners
* ''
The Collector
''The Collector'' is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhous ...
'' (2005)
# Best Film: ''
The Collector
''The Collector'' is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhous ...
''
# Best Director:
Feliks Falk
Feliks Falk ps. ''Robert F. Lane'', ''Edward Neyman'' (born 25 February 1941) is a Polish film and theater director as well as writer of film scripts, stage plays, television plays, and radio shows. A 1966 graduate of Warsaw's Academy of Fine Art ...
# Best Screenplay:
Feliks Falk
Feliks Falk ps. ''Robert F. Lane'', ''Edward Neyman'' (born 25 February 1941) is a Polish film and theater director as well as writer of film scripts, stage plays, television plays, and radio shows. A 1966 graduate of Warsaw's Academy of Fine Art ...
# Best Actress:
Kinga Preis
Kinga Anna Preis (born 31 August 1971, in Wrocław) is a Polish film and theatre actress.
Life and career
She graduated from Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in 1996. In 2006, she received the Zbigniew Cybulski Award for best young ...
Jan Komasa
Jan Tadeusz Komasa (born October 28, 1981) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for directing '' Suicide Room'' (2011), '' Warsaw 44'' (2014), and ''Corpus Christi'' (2019), which was nominated for the Best Internatio ...
# Best Screenplay:
Mateusz Pacewicz
Mateusz Pacewicz (born 21 June 1992, Warsaw) is a Polish award-winning screenwriter and film director.
Life and career
He is a graduate of the Inter-area Individual Humanistic and Social Studies (MISH) of the University of Warsaw. In 2017, he wro ...
Bartosz Bielenia
Bartosz Bielenia (born 15 May 1992) is a Polish film and stage actor.
Education
In 2016, Bielenia graduated from AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków.
Career
He made his debut in 1999 at the Aleksander Wegierko Dramatic Theat ...
Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Pius Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is ...
), Best Screenplay (
Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Pius Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is ...
) and Best Actor (
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Zbigniew Jan Zapasiewicz (13 September 1934 – 14 July 2009) was one of the most prominent post-war Polish actors, as well as a theatre director and pedagogue.
Biography
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz was born on 13 September 1934 in Warsaw, Poland. D ...
); lost: Best Actress (
Krystyna Janda
Krystyna Jolanta Janda (born 18 December 1952) is a Polish film and theater actress best known internationally for playing leading roles in several films by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, including ''Man of Marble'' (''Człowiek z marmuru'', 197 ...
)
* ''Cześć Tereska'' (2001): Best Film, Best Director (
Robert Gliński
Robert Ignacy Gliński (born 17 April 1952 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the National Film School in Łódź. He won the Golden Lions at the Gdynia Film Festival in 1992 with his film '' Wszystko, co naj ...
), Best Screenplay (Jacek Wyszomirski) and Best Actor (
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Zbigniew Zamachowski (; born 17 July 1961) is a Polish actor.
Life and career
He was born on 17 July 1961 in Brzeziny near Łódź. Zamachowski graduated from the actor's faculty of the National Film School in Łódź. He began his acting caree ...
); lost: Best Actress (Aleksandra Gietner)
* ''Zmruż oczy'' (2002): Best Film, Best Director ( Andrzej Jakimowski), Best Screenplay ( Andrzej Jakimowski) and Best Actor (
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Zbigniew Zamachowski (; born 17 July 1961) is a Polish actor.
Life and career
He was born on 17 July 1961 in Brzeziny near Łódź. Zamachowski graduated from the actor's faculty of the National Film School in Łódź. He began his acting caree ...
); lost: Best Actress (Aleksandra Prószyńska)
* '' Róża'' (2012): Best Film, Best Director (
Wojciech Smarzowski
Wojciech Smarzowski (born 18 January 1963 in Korczyna near Krosno) is a Polish screenwriter and director. He studied filmmaking at the Jagiellonian University and the National Film School in Łódź (1990). His 2004 film, '' The Wedding'' (not ...
), Best Screenplay (Michał Szczerbic) and Best Actress (
Agata Kulesza
Agata Kulesza-Figurska (; born 27 September 1971) is a Polish film, television and stage actress, and a member of the Polish Film Academy.
); lost: Best Actor (
Marcin Dorociński
Marcin Grzegorz Dorociński (born 22 June 1973) is a Polish film, television and stage actor.
Early life
Dorociński was born in Milanówek near Warsaw and grew up in a small village Kłudzienko. His father is a blacksmith and his mother is a ...
)
* '' Body/Ciało'' (2016): Best Film, Best Director (
Małgorzata Szumowska
Małgorzata Szumowska (; born 26 February 1973) is a Poles, Polish film director, screenwriter and producer, born in Kraków.
Her 2013 film ''In the Name Of (film), In the Name Of'' received the Teddy Award for Best Feature at the 63rd Berlin In ...
), Best Actor (
Janusz Gajos
Janusz Gajos (; born 23 September 1939) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer. Professor of Theatre Arts and an Honorary Doctor of the National Film School in Łódź, he is considered one of the gr ...
) and Best Actress (
Maja Ostaszewska
Maja Ostaszewska (born 3 September 1972) is a Polish actress.
Biography
She was born in Kraków, the daughter of Polish musician Jacek Ostaszewski, of the Ostoja Clan. Ostaszewska was raised Buddhist. She started her acting training in her n ...
Małgorzata Szumowska
Małgorzata Szumowska (; born 26 February 1973) is a Poles, Polish film director, screenwriter and producer, born in Kraków.
Her 2013 film ''In the Name Of (film), In the Name Of'' received the Teddy Award for Best Feature at the 63rd Berlin In ...
)
* ''
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...
'' (2018): Best Film, Best Director (
Paweł Pawlikowski
Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski (; born 15 September 1957) is a Polish filmmaker. He garnered early praise for a string of documentaries in the 1990s and for his award-winning feature films of the 2000s, '' Last Resort'' (2000) and '' My Summer of ...
), Best Screenplay (
Janusz Głowacki
Janusz Andrzej Głowacki (13 September 1938 – 19 August 2017), better known as Janusz Głowacki or colloquially simply as Głowa, was a Poles, Polish playwright, essayist and screenwriter. Głowacki was the recipient of multiple awards and hono ...
and Paweł Pawlikowski) and Best Actress (
Joanna Kulig
Joanna Kulig (; born 24 June 1982) is a Polish actress and singer, best known for her role in the 2018 historical drama film ''Cold War'', which earned her the European Film Award for Best Actress. Her other notable credits include the films '' ...
); lost: Best Actor (
Tomasz Kot
Tomasz Kot (born 21 April 1977) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than 30 films and 26 plays as well as dozens of television series.
Education and career
He graduated from the Tadeusz Kościuszko High School No. 1 in Legnica. On 17 Nove ...
)
; Three awards won
* ''Reverse'' (2009): Best Film, Best Screenplay (
Andrzej Bart
Andrzej Bart (born 1951 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish novelist, screenwriter and film director.
He is called the Polish Thomas PynchonAgata Buzek); lost: Best Director (
Borys Lankosz
Borys Lankosz (born 31 March 1973, Kraków) is a Polish film director.
He graduated from the National Film School in Łódź. His debut film "Evolution" (2001) received several awards, i.a. the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Internationa ...
), Best Actor (
Marcin Dorociński
Marcin Grzegorz Dorociński (born 22 June 1973) is a Polish film, television and stage actor.
Early life
Dorociński was born in Milanówek near Warsaw and grew up in a small village Kłudzienko. His father is a blacksmith and his mother is a ...
)
* ''
Ostatnia rodzina
''The Last Family'' ( pl, Ostatnia rodzina) is a 2016 Polish biographical film directed by Jan P. Matuszyński. The film won the Golden Lions for best film at the 2016 Gdynia Film Festival. Plot
As renowned painter Zdzislaw Beksinski tapes everyt ...
'' (2017): Best Screenplay (Robert Bolesto), Best Actor (
Andrzej Seweryn
Andrzej Teodor Seweryn (born 25 April 1946) is a Polish actor and director. One of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France and Germany. He is also one of only three non-French actors to ...
Gdynia Film Festival
The Gdynia Film Festival (until 2011: Polish Film Festival, Polish: ''Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni'') is an annual film festival first held in Gdańsk (1974–1986), now held in Gdynia, Poland.
It has taken place every year sinc ...
Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ...