The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, and it’s Roman Polanski’s strongest and most personally felt movie. This should not ...

Roman Polanski's film is about the salvation of one of them, a virtuoso concert pianist who survived the Warsaw ghetto. Secondly, the film-maker is remarkably like his protagonist. Polanski ...

Actor Adrien Brody has said that questions about whether he would work with director Roman Polanski again ... the age of 29 ...

The Pianist (2002) is a drama film of a true life story, directed by Roman Polanski, from the memoir of Władysław Szpilman. It is a French, British, German, and Polish co-production featuring ...

Roman Polanski - who cannot set foot in the United States without going to jail - won the Academy Award for best director on Sunday night for his searing Holocaust drama "The Pianist." Polanski ...

Roman Polanski, 82, director of seminal films like “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Chinatown” and “The Pianist” Polanski, whom the U.S. has repeatedly attempted to extradite from Europe on ...

The Two Towers), Rob Marshall (Chicago), Roman Polanski (The Pianist), via satellite, and Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York) came under moderator Jeremy Kagan's knife at the DGA in Los Angeles. From ...

The actor also won best actor at the 2003 Oscars for his role in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, based on the memoir by Polish-Jewish composer and pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman — making him the ...

Watch scenes from the performances nominated for best actor at the 97th annual Academy Awards, as well as interviews with the nominees.

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