List of Polish Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees whose career and identification are associated predominantly with Poland. The list is current as of the 94th 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). There were thirteen Polish pictures nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

Best Actress – Leading Role

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Academy Award for Best Actress
1967	Ida Kamińska	The Shop on Main Street	Nominated

Best Art Direction

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Art Direction
1994	Ewa Braun Allan Starski	Schindler's List	Won

Best Costume Design

Year	Name	Film	Status
Academy Award for Best Costume Design
1994	Anna B. Sheppard	Schindler's List	Nominated
2003		The Pianist	Nominated
2014		Maleficent	Nominated

Best Cinematography

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

Best Director

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Director
1974	Roman Polański	Chinatown	Nominated	Polanski is a Polish–French director.
1980	Roman Polański	Tess	Nominated
1994	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Three Colours: Red	Nominated
2002	Roman Polański	The Pianist	Won	First Polish director to win the award.
2018	Paweł Pawlikowski	Cold War	Nominated	First Polish director nominated for a Polish language film.

Best Picture

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Academy Award for Best Picture
2002	Roman Polański	The Pianist	Nominated	The film was a French-British-Polish co-production.

Best International Feature Film

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

Best Original Music Score

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

Best Original Song

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Original Song
1962	Bronisław Kaper	Mutiny on the Bounty	Nominated	For the song ″Follow Me″; shared with Paul Francis Webster.

Best Live Action Short Film

Year	Name	Film	Status
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
2001	Sławomir Fabicki Bogumił Godfrejow	A Man Thing	Nominated
2021	Tadeusz Łysiak Maciej Ślesicki	The Dress	Nominated

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Year	Name	Film	Status
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
1995	Marcel Łoziński	89mm from Europe	Nominated
2005	Hanna Polak Andrzej Celiński	The Children of Leningradsky	Nominated
2010	Bartosz Konopka	Rabbit à la Berlin	Nominated
2014	Aneta Kopacz	Joanna	Nominated
2014	Tomasz Śliwiński Maciej Ślesicki	Our Curse	Nominated

Best Animated Short Film

Year	Name	Film	Status
Academy Award for Animated Short Film
1982	Zbigniew Rybczyński	Tango	Won
2002	Tomasz Bagiński	The Cathedral	Nominated

Best Animated Feature

This list focuses on Polish-born filmmakers.

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
2017	Dorota Kobiela	Loving Vincent	Nominated	A Polish–British film co-directed with Hugh Welchman.

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Academy Award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
1968	Roman Polański	Rosemary's Baby	Nominated	Polanski is a French-born Polish writer.
1991	Agnieszka Holland	Europa Europa	Nominated

Best Writing – Original Screenplay

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Academy Award for Writing (Original Screenplay)
1994	Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz	Three Colours: Red	Nominated

Academy Honorary Award

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Academy Honorary Award
1999	Andrzej Wajda	...	Won	"In recognition of five decades of extraordinary film direction."

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Academy Honorary Award
1946	Samuel Goldwyn	...	Won	Samuel Goldwyn was a Polish-born American film producer.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
Academy Honorary Award
1957	Samuel Goldwyn	...	Won	Samuel Goldwyn was a Polish-born American film producer.

Technical & Scientific Awards

Technical/Scientific Awards
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1940	Anton Grot	...	Won	For the design and perfection of the Warner Bros. water ripple and wave illusion machine.
1965	Stefan Kudelski	...	Won	For the design and development of the Nagra portable 1/4" tape recording system for motion picture sound recording.
1977	Stefan Kudelski	...	Won	For the engineering of the improvements incorporated in the Nagra 4.2L sound recorder for motion picture production.
1978	Stefan Kudelski	...	Won	For the continuing research, design and development of the Nagra Production Sound Recorder for Motion Pictures.
1987	Tadeusz Krzanowski	...	Won	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 wins	No. of nominations
16	64

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Combined major awards	EGOT Triple Crown of Acting
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