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 ...

What is even more appalling is the fact that Polanski continues to work in the film industry abroad, shielded by fame and a complex international legal framework. In fact, his movie, The Pianist, ...

to imagine the cinematic landscape later dominated by psychological thriller/horror hybrids such Jack Clayton's The Innocents (1961), Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) and Roman Polanski's ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The case involving Roman Polanski ... presented in Polanski’s case. March 2003 — Polanski wins the best director Academy Award for “The Pianist,” but is unable ...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a ...

as well as “Bless the Beasts and Children’ and Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown.” Having started his acting career on television in the 1960s, he was also notable for numerous TV guest roles ...