# Andrzej Wajda

> The Polish director who turned his country's occupation, uprisings, and betrayals into the language of international cinema - four Oscar nominations, a Palme d'Or, and an Honorary Oscar for work that made national trauma legible to the world.

*Polish film director (1926-2016)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/andrzej-wajda

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Country:** Poland
- **Born:** 1926-03-06
- **Died:** 2016-10-09
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Andrzej Wajda was born 6 March 1926 and became a prominent member of the "Polish Film School," first noticed for his war trilogy: A Generation (1955), Kanał (1957), and Ashes and Diamonds (1958). Those early films set the pattern - he chronicled Poland's political and social evolution through the myths of national identity, finding the universal in the Polish struggle to maintain dignity under impossible circumstances. Four films earned Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film: The Promised Land (1975), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyń (2007). He collected the Palme d'Or, Honorary Golden Lion, and Honorary Golden Bear along the way, and in the end an Honorary Oscar. He died 9 October 2016, having spent a career making his country's wounds visible.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 62.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.1 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 25.3 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0906667/ (@nm0906667)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.wajda.pl

## Topics
#Actors, #Actor, #Television, #Influencer, #Screenwriting, #Film Directing, #Politics, #Painting

## Timeline
- **2020** - Annual award ACFK
- **2016** - Died
- **2011** - Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class
- **2008** - Polish Academy Award for Best Film
- **2005** - Golden Medal for Merit to Culture
- **2000** - Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class
- **1996** - Silver Bear
- **1990** - European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
- **1983** - London Film Critics Circle Award for Director of the Year
- **1951** - The Pottery at Ilza
- **1926** - Born

## Sources
- [安德烈·華依達](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E5%BE%B7%E7%83%88%C2%B7%E8%8F%AF%E4%BE%9D%E9%81%94)
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