Born
18 August 1933 (92)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also known as
Raymond Roman Thierry Liebling, Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański
Roman Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Born in Paris to Polish parents, Polański relocated with his family to Poland in 1937. After surviving the Holocaust, he continued his education in Poland and became a critically acclaimed director of both art house and commercial films. Polański's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since re...
Roman Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Born in Paris to Polish parents, Polański relocated with his family to Poland in 1937. After surviving the Holocaust, he continued his education in Poland and became a critically acclaimed director of both art house and commercial films. Polański's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, and in 2002 received the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist. He has also been the recipient of two Baftas, four Césars, a Golden Globe and the Palme d'Or. He left Poland in 1961 to live in France for several years, then moved to the United Kingdom where he collaborated with Gérard Brach on three films, beginning with Repulsion (1965). In 1968 he moved to the United States, immediately cementing his burgeoning directing status with the 1968 groundbreaking Academy Award winning horror film Rosemary's Baby. In 1969, Polański's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered while staying at the Polańskis' Benedict Canyon home above Los Angeles by members of the Manson Family. Following Tate's death, Polański returned to Europe and spent much of his time in Paris and Gstaad, but did not make another film until he filmed Macbeth (1971) in England. The following year he went to Italy to make What? (1973) and subsequently spent the next five years living near Rome. However, he traveled to Hollywood to direct Chinatown (1974) for Paramount Pictures, with Robert Evans serving as producer. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and was a critical and box-office success; the script by Robert Towne won for Best Original Screenplay. Polański's next film, The Tenant (1976), was shot in France, and completed the "Apartment Trilogy", following Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. In 1977, after a photo shoot in Los Angeles, Polański was arrested for the sexual abuse of a 13 year old girl. He was charged with rape but pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor. To avoid sentencing, Polański fled to his home in London, and then moved on to France the following day. He has had a U.S. arrest warrant outstanding since then, and an international arrest warrant since 2005. Polański continued to make films such as The Pianist (2002), a World War II-set adaptation of Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman's autobiography of the same name, which echoed some of Polański's earlier life experiences. Like Szpilman, Polański escaped the ghetto and the concentration camps while family members were killed. The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director, the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, and seven French César Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. He then released the successful films Oliver Twist (2005), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), and The Ghost Writer (2010), completed while under house arrest. In September 2009, Polański was arrested by Swiss police, at the request of U.S. authorities, when he traveled to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival. In October 2009, the U.S. requested his extradition; however, on July 12, 2010, the Swiss rejected that request and instead declared him a "free man" after releasing him from custody.
Breakdown: 1975
2025
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
2025
Chaos: The Manson Murders
2025
The Palace
2023
The Family
2023
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022
Polanski, Horowitz. The Wizards From the Ghetto
2021
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
2019
An Officer and a Spy
2019
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019
Sharon Tate Home Movies
2019
🎬 Director
Valerie
2019
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
2018
Based on a True Story
2017
Face of Evil: The Charles Manson Murders
2015
Roman by Polanski
2015
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
2015
Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Weekend of a Champion
2013
Venus in Fur
2013
Seduced and Abandoned
2013
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012
Close Up
2012
Komeda, Komeda...
2012
Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out
2012
A Special Day
2012
Remembering 'Rosemary's Baby'
2012
Carnage
2011
Cracow by Polanski
2010
Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
2010
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010
The Ghost Writer
2010
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009
On the Trail of the New Wave
2009
Bicycle
2008
Il falso bugiardo
2008
Quiet Chaos
2008