Academy Award winner Pawel Pawlikowski says he’s watching “with horror” as political developments increasingly divide countries across the globe, and admits that he’s reluctant to take a stab at do…
about how Oscar success has done little to change his approach to filmmaking, and why he chose to return to his native Poland in 2013, more than four decades after he moved with his parents to the U.K.—a decision that came at a time when he felt “a certain need to touch the ground, to find a foothold in life again, and to find a foothold in cinema again,” he says.
The movie would win him an Oscar instead, for best foreign-language film; four years later, Pawlikowski would earn a second nomination in that category for “Cold War,” along with his first nod for best director. Speaking in Sarajevo, he appreciates the ironic turn his life has taken: four years after wondering if his next film would be his last, he’s become one of world cinema’s most celebrated directors.
Pawlikowski’s success hasn’t spared him from controversy. During the Oscar campaign for “Ida,” the director came under attack from right-wing critics in Poland who questioned the film’s depiction of events that transpired there during the Nazi Occupation. Nationalist lawmakers have in recent years attempted to criminalize speech that suggests the Polish government was complicit in the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes.
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