
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.

戦場のピアニスト

Le court des grands

チャイナタウン

ローズマリーの赤ちゃん

テナント 恐怖を借りた男

La rivière de diamants

反撥

水の中のナイフ

La Vénus à la fourrure

おとなのけんか

赤い航路

テス

オフィサー・アンド・スパイ

Macbeth

死と処女

Weekend of a Champion

The Fearless Vampire Killers

ゴーストライター

オリバー・ツイスト

袋小路

フランティック

Gdy spadają anioły

ナインスゲート

それぞれのシネマ

Pirates

Dwaj ludzie z szafą

Le gros et le maigre

Lampa

告白小説、その結末

Che?

The Palace

世界詐欺物語

Rozbijemy zabawę...

Morderstwo

Ssaki

Uśmiech zębiczny

The King of Ads

Henri Langlois vu par...

Sharon Tate Home Movies

Tess: The Experience

Un film et son époque

Close Up

Apostrophes

トゥルー・ハリウッド・ストーリー

The Ten Commandments of Creativity

Le Grand Échiquier

チャイナタウン

Ljuset håller mig sällskap

Deneuve, la reine Catherine

地下水道

テナント 恐怖を借りた男

The Playboy Murders

La rivière de diamants

Una pura formalità

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

反撥

水の中のナイフ

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

おとなのけんか

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

オフィサー・アンド・スパイ

世代

Weekend of a Champion

Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life

Leçon de Cinéma

夜の終りに

The Fearless Vampire Killers

The Dick Cavett Show

Ciao, Federico!

Helter Skelter: An American Myth

フランティック

Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

Zezowate szczęście

Gdy spadają anioły

Dracula: The True Story

Do widzenia, do jutra...

ラッシュアワー3

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Caos calmo

Breakdown: 1975

Weekend of a Champion

Playboy: The Story of X

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Dwaj ludzie z szafą

カオス: マンソン・マーダーズ

Seduced and Abandoned

Le gros et le maigre

La Saga Rassam-Berri, le cinéma dans les veines

Lampa

Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out

Françoise Dorléac, une promesse

Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence

Two Gangsters and an Island

Remembering 'Rosemary's Baby'

Une Journée particulière

Il était une fois... « Tess »

Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre

Mia Farrow, en clair-obscur

Scene by Scene

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Grosse fatigue

Polański, Horowitz. Hometown

処女の生血

Lotna

The Magic Christian

Zemsta

Che?

Wetten, dass..?

A British Horror Film

Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'

Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage

Nikodem Dyzma

Samson

Lionpower from MGM

Back in the USSR

Wraki

Mia and Roman

Henri Langlois vu par...

Histoires de festival

Koniec nocy

Cérémonie des César

Ostrożnie yeti

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

The Evolution of Snuff

28 minutes

Chassé-croisé

Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski

Bandes Originales: Alexandre Desplat

Valerie

En attendant Godot

Trzy opowieści

Godzina bez słońca

Zaczarowany rower

Co řekne žena...

Con bravura

Elle s'appelait Françoise

Il falso bugiardo

The Last Days of Sharon Tate

Clive James Meets Roman Polanski

The New Cinema

Polanski Meets Macbeth

Ciné regards: Tess: Roman Polanski

The Nomad

Tess: From Novel to Screen

Filming 'Tess'

Trzy starty

Cracow by Polanski

Roman by Polanski

Spécial cinéma