Andrzej Wajda Articles

Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho set The first recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Fellowship, "awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image," was director Alfred Hitchcock in 1971. Dozens of film, television, and assorted media personalities have become BAFTA Fellows since then, though the pattern here — as most elsewhere — is that achievements by men [...]

Krystyna Janda, Pawel Szajda in Swet Rush The European Film Academy, EFA Productions, and the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI have announced that the 2009 Prix FIPRESCI goes to 83-year-old Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda (right) for Tatarak / Sweet Rush. Based on Sándor Márai's short story, Sweet Rush — which has some points in common with The Door in the Floor — chronicles the [...]

Foreign Language Film Academy Award Symposium 2008: Part I Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrzej Wajda Sergei Bodrov, Nikita Mikhalkov Joseph Cedar, Stefan Ruzowitzky Click on the photos to enlarge them. Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.

Stefan Ruzowitzky, Joseph Cedar, Sergei Bodrov, and Academy Governor Mark Johnson The 2010 Academy Awards' Foreign Language Film Symposium was held yesterday, February 23, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. All five directors of this year's nominated films were present: Joseph Cedar (Beaufort, Israel); Nikita Mikhalkov (12, Russia); Andrzej Wajda (Katyn, Poland); Sergei Bodrov (Mongol, Kazakhstan); [...]