Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1938-05-05 (Age: 88)
Place of Birth
Łódź, Poland
Jerzy Skolimowski
Biography
Jerzy Skolimowski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ skɔliˈmɔfskʲi]; born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist, actor and painter. 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 as well as The Shout, starring Alan Bates, Susannah York and John Hurt, Moonlighting (1982), starring Jeremy Irons and Essential Killing, starring Vincent Gallo 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerzy Skolimowski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (28)
The Stolen Caravaggio
2018
Julius
2018
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
2012
The Avengers
2012
'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes
2011
Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End
2011
Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
2010
Eastern Promises
2007
Before Night Falls
2000
Operacja Samum
1999
L.A. Without a Map
1999
Mars Attacks!
1996
30 Door Key
1991Skolimowski à la table
1990
