Roman Polanski Overview:

Director, Roman Polanski, was born Rajmund Roman Liebling on Aug 18, 1933 in Paris, France. As of December 2025, Roman Polanski was 92 years old.

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Roman Polanski was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Best Director for The Pianist in 2002.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1968Best WritingRosemary's Baby (1968)N/ANominated
1974Best DirectorChinatown (1974)N/ANominated
1980Best DirectorTess (1979)N/ANominated
2002Best DirectorThe Pianist (2003)N/AWon
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Repulsion (1965, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on May 1, 2015 From The Stop Button

At around the seventy minute mark, Repulsion finally gives Catherine Deneuve some personality. Sure, she’s gone completely insane at this point, but she sings a little lullaby to herself. And Deneuve is in at least sixty-five of those seventy minutes without any personality (she loses it again... Read full article


Rosemary’s Baby (1968, )

on Dec 13, 2013 From The Stop Button

From the first scene of Rosemary’s Baby, establishes the style he’s going to use until the big reveal at the end. He shoots a lot of over-the-shoulder shots with people moving around out of frame, causing a startling effect when the viewer finds out they’re now in a ... Read full article


Top Films of by LMdC

By Michael on May 14, 2012 From Le Mot du Cinephiliaque

1. Chinatown (1974) 2. Repulsion (1965) 3. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) 4. The Tenant (1976) 5. The Ghost Writer (2010) 6. The Pianist (2002) 7. Frantic (1988) 8. Oliver Twist (2005) 9. The Ninth Gate (1999) I still need to see: Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) Mammals (1966) Knife in the Wa... Read full article


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Won the Best Director Oscar in 2003 for The Pianist (2002) at the age of 69 years and 7 months, making him the oldest person ever, as of now, to win that award to that point in time. Polanski eclipsed the record previously held by George Cukor, who was 65 when he won for directing My Fair Lady (1964). This record was beaten in 2005 when Clint Eastwood won at the age of 74 for Million Dollar Baby (2004).

Polanski was born Rajmund Roman Liebling in Paris, France, the son of Bula (née Katz-Przedborska) and Ryszard Liebling (aka Ryszard Polanski), who was a painter and plastics manufacturer. His father was a Polish Jew and his mother, a native of Russia, was brought up as a Catholic as she had a Jewish father and a Roman Catholic mother.

He was convicted of the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl and fled to Europe to avoid and escape arrest and incarceration, in the United States of America.

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