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Film director and Lodz Film School graduate, Jerzy Skolimowski has received the Golden Lion for Life Achievemnet at the 73rd International Film Festival in Venice.
The award was handed to Skolimowski by the Director of the Venice Film Festival, Alberto Barbera. During the Festival Opening Gala Jeremy Irons, who played the main part in Skolimowski’s "Moonlighting" (1982), spoke about the director and his films and called him a "permanent experimentalist" and "the leader of the Polish New Wave".
‘I must make a few more films to prove I deserve it so that they don’t take it back,’ said Jerzy Skolimowski on receiving the award.
The director’s press conference, which preceded the Award Gala, was packed with journalists and critics.
Jerzy Skolimowski graduated from Lodz Film School in 1963, where he studied film direction. He worked with other top Polish film-makers. Skolimowski was co-screenwriter for Andrzej Wajda’s film, "Innocent Sorcerers" and Roman Polański’s "Knife in the Water". The fiction film, "Identification Marks: None" made in 1964 was his debut. "Walkower" was awarded the Andrzej Munk Prize by Lodz Film School.
After "Hands Up" was rejected by censorship board in 1967, Skolimowski left Poland. His subsequent films which were shot abroad were screened at major film festivals and received numerous prizes. In 1967, Skolimowski won the Golden Lion for "Le depart" at the Berlin Festival. In Cannes, he received several awards: for "The Shout" in 1978, Best Screenplay Prize for "Moonlighting" in 1982 and Special Jury Prize for "The Lightship" in 1985.
Skolimowski returned to Poland in 2008 and the same year he made a film starring Kinga Preis "Four Nights with Anna" which opened the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Section at the Cannes Festival. The director won the Eagle, Polish Academy Award, for Best Direction for the film "Four Nights with Anna". In 2010, he made another prize winning film, "Essential Killing" starring Vincent Gallo. Among the trophies for the film are: Gold Lions for the Best Film at the Gdynia Film Festival and the Special Prize of the Venice Film Festival. His latest film, "11 minutes" was screened at the main competition of the Venice Film Festival in 2015.
The Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award has been granted by the Venice Film Festival since 1969. Among its winners there are Michelangelo Antonioni, Martin Scorsese, and Andrzej Wajda.
More info: www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/.
photo - La Biennale di Venezia
‘I must make a few more films to prove I deserve it so that they don’t take it back,’ said Jerzy Skolimowski on receiving the award.
The director’s press conference, which preceded the Award Gala, was packed with journalists and critics.
Jerzy Skolimowski graduated from Lodz Film School in 1963, where he studied film direction. He worked with other top Polish film-makers. Skolimowski was co-screenwriter for Andrzej Wajda’s film, "Innocent Sorcerers" and Roman Polański’s "Knife in the Water". The fiction film, "Identification Marks: None" made in 1964 was his debut. "Walkower" was awarded the Andrzej Munk Prize by Lodz Film School.
After "Hands Up" was rejected by censorship board in 1967, Skolimowski left Poland. His subsequent films which were shot abroad were screened at major film festivals and received numerous prizes. In 1967, Skolimowski won the Golden Lion for "Le depart" at the Berlin Festival. In Cannes, he received several awards: for "The Shout" in 1978, Best Screenplay Prize for "Moonlighting" in 1982 and Special Jury Prize for "The Lightship" in 1985.
Skolimowski returned to Poland in 2008 and the same year he made a film starring Kinga Preis "Four Nights with Anna" which opened the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Section at the Cannes Festival. The director won the Eagle, Polish Academy Award, for Best Direction for the film "Four Nights with Anna". In 2010, he made another prize winning film, "Essential Killing" starring Vincent Gallo. Among the trophies for the film are: Gold Lions for the Best Film at the Gdynia Film Festival and the Special Prize of the Venice Film Festival. His latest film, "11 minutes" was screened at the main competition of the Venice Film Festival in 2015.
The Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award has been granted by the Venice Film Festival since 1969. Among its winners there are Michelangelo Antonioni, Martin Scorsese, and Andrzej Wajda.
More info: www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/.
photo - La Biennale di Venezia