Andrzej Wajda

Polish film director (1926–2016)

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Andrzej Wajda

Wajda in 1963

Born|

Andrzej Witold Wajda

(1926-03-06)6 March 1926

Suwałki, Second Polish Republic

Died| 9 October 2016(2016-10-09) (aged 90)

Warsaw, Poland

Alma mater| National Film School in Łódź
Occupation(s)| Film director, theatre director
Years active| 1951–2016
Spouses|

* Gabriela Obremba

(m. 1949; div. 1959)​

* Zofia Żuchowska

(m. 1959; div. 1967)​

* Beata Tyszkiewicz

(m. 1967; div. 1969)​

* Krystyna Zachwatowicz

(m. 1974)​

Awards|

* Palme d'Or
* Honorary Golden Bear
* Honorary Oscar
* Golden Lion Honorary Award

Signature

Andrzej Witold Wajda (Polish: [ˈandʐɛj ˈvajda]; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar,[1] the Palme d'Or,[2] as well as Honorary Golden Lion[3] and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School". He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation (1955), Kanał (1957) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).[4]

He is considered one of the world's most renowned filmmakers,[5] whose works chronicled his native country's political and social evolution[6] and dealt with the myths of Polish national identity offering insightful analyses of the universal element of the Polish experience – the struggle to maintain dignity under the most trying circumstances.

Four of his films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: The Promised Land (1975),[7] The Maids of Wilko (1979),[8] Man of Iron (1981) and Katyń (2007).[9]

## Early life

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Wajda was born in Suwałki,[10] the son of Aniela (née Białowąs), a school teacher, and Jakub Wajda, an army officer.[11] In 1942, he joined the Polish resistance and served in the Home Army. After the war, he studied to be a painter at Kraków's Academy of Fine Arts before entering the Łódź Film School,[12] where many famous Polish directors, such as Roman Polanski, studied.

## Early career

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After Wajda's apprenticeship to director Aleksander Ford, Wajda was given the opportunity to direct his own film. A Generation (1955) was his first major film. At the same time Wajda began his work as a director in theatre, including Michael V. Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain (1959), Hamlet (1960), and Two for the Seesaw (1963) by William Gibson. Wajda made two more increasingly accomplished films, which developed further the anti-war theme of A Generation: Kanał (1957) (Special Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival in 1957, shared with Bergman's The Seventh Seal) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958) with Zbigniew Cybulski.[13]

While capable of turning out mainstream commercial fare (often dismissed as "trivial" by critics), Wajda was more interested in works of allegory[14] and symbolism,[15] and certain symbols (such as setting fire to a glass of liquor, representing the flame of youthful idealism that was extinguished by the war) recur often in his films. Lotna (1959) is full of surrealistic and symbolic scenes and shots, but he managed to explore other styles, making new wave style Innocent Sorcerers (1960) with music by Krzysztof Komeda, starring Roman Polanski and Jerzy Skolimowski (who was also a co-script writer) in the episodes. Then Wajda directed Samson (1961), the story of Jacob, a Jewish boy, who wants to survive during the Nazi occupation of Poland. In the mid-1960s Wajda made The Ashes (1965) based on the novel by Polish writer Stefan Żeromski and directed several films abroad: Love at Twenty (1962), Siberian Lady Macbeth[16][17] (1962) and Gates To Paradise (1968).

In 1967, Cybulski was killed in a train accident, whereupon the director articulated his grief with Everything for Sale[18] (1968), considered one of his most personal films, using the technique of a film-within-a-film to tell the story of a film maker's life and work. The following year he directed an ironic satire Hunting Flies[19] with the script written by Janusz Głowacki and a short television film called Przekładaniec based on a screenplay by Stanisław Lem.[20]

## Artistic recognition

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Andrzej Wajda (center), c. 1970

The 1970s were the most prolific artistic period for Wajda, who made over ten films: Landscape After the Battle (1970), Pilate and Others (1971), The Wedding (1972) – the film version of the famous Polish poetic drama by Stanisław Wyspiański, The Promised Land (1974), Man of Marble (1977) – the film takes place in two time periods, the first film showing the episodes of Stalinism in Poland, The Shadow Line (1976), Rough Treatment (a.k.a. Without Anesthesia) (1978), The Orchestra Conductor (1980), starring John Gielgud; and two psychological and existential films based upon novels by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz – The Birch Wood (1970) and The Maids of Wilko[21] (1979). The Birch Wood was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where Wajda won the Golden Prize for Direction.[22]

Wajda continued to work in theatre, including Play Strindberg, Dostoyevsky's The Possessed and Nastasja Filippovna – Wajda's version of The Idiot, November Night by Wyspiański, The Immigrants by Sławomir Mrożek, The Danton Affair or The Dreams of Reason.[23]

Wajda during filming in 1974

Wajda's later commitment to Poland's burgeoning Solidarity movement was manifested in Man of Iron (1981), a thematic sequel to The Man of Marble, with Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa appearing as himself in the latter film. The film sequence is loosely based on the life of Anna Walentynowicz, a hero of socialist labor Stakhanovite turned dissident and alludes to events from real life, such as the firing of Walentynowicz from the shipyard and the underground wedding of Bogdan Borusewicz to Alina Pienkowska.[24] The director's involvement in this movement would prompt the Polish government to force Wajda's production company out of business. For the film, Wajda won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 1983, he directed Danton, starring Gérard Depardieu in the title role, a film set in 1794 (Year Two of the French Republican calendar) dealing with the Post-Revolutionary Terror. Made against the backdrop of the martial law in Poland, Wajda showed how easily revolution can change into terror and start to "eat its own children."[25] For this film Wajda was honoured with the Louis Delluc Prize and a César Award for Best Director. In the 1980s, he also made A Love in Germany (1983) featuring Hanna Schygulla, The Chronicle of Amorous Incidents (1986) an adaptation of Tadeusz Konwicki's novel and The Possessed (1988) based on Dostoyevsky's novel. In theatre he prepared an interpretation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (1984) and other unique spectacles such as Antygone, his sequential Hamlet versions and the early 20th-century Jewish play The Dybbuk. In 1989, he was the president of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival.[26]

## Career after 1990

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During the filming of Katyń in 2007

In 1990, Andrzej Wajda was honoured by the European Film Awards for his lifetime achievement, only the third director to be so honoured, after Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman. In the early 1990s, he was elected a senator and also appointed artistic director of Warsaw's Teatr Powszechny. He continued to make films set during World War II, including Korczak[27] (1990), a story about a Jewish-Polish doctor who takes care of orphan children, in The Crowned-Eagle Ring (1993) and Holy Week (1995) specifically on Jewish-Polish relations. In 1994, Wajda presented his own film version of Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot in the movie Nastasja,[28] starring Japanese actor Tamasoburo Bando in the double role of Prince Mishkin and Nastasja. The film's cinematographer was Paweł Edelman, who subsequently became one of Wajda's great collaborators. In 1996, the director went in a different direction with Miss Nobody,[29] a coming-of-age drama that explored the darker and more spiritual aspects of a relationship between three high-school girls. In 1999, Wajda released the epic film Pan Tadeusz,[30] based on the epic poem of the Polish 19th-century romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz.

A year later, at the 2000 Academy Awards, Wajda was presented with an honorary Oscar for his contribution to world cinema;[31] he subsequently donated the award to Kraków's Jagiellonian University.[32] In 2002, Wajda directed The Revenge, a film version of his 1980s comedy theatre production, with Roman Polanski in one of the main roles. In February 2006, Wajda received an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the Berlin International Film Festival.[33] In 2007, Katyń was released, a well-received film about the Katyń massacre, in which Wajda's father was murdered; the director also shows the dramatic situation of those who await their relatives (mothers, wives and children). The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008.[34]

Wajda pictured with his wife, Krystyna Zachwatowicz, in 2010

Wajda followed it with Sweet Rush (2009) with Krystyna Janda as a main character. It is partly based upon a short Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz novel. The film is dedicated to Edward Kłosiński, Janda's husband, a cinematographer and a long-time Wajda friend and co-worker who died of cancer the same year. For this film Wajda was awarded by Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival. He received the Prix FIPRESCI during the 2009 European Film Awards. Walesa. Man of Hope (Wałęsa. Człowiek z nadziei), Wajda's biography of Lech Wałęsa, based on a script by Janusz Głowacki and starring Robert Więckiewicz in the title role, had its world premiere at the 2013 Venice International Film Festival. His last film was the 2016 Afterimage (Powidoki), starring Bogusław Linda as Polish avant-garde painter Władysław Strzemiński.

Wajda founded The Japanese Centre of Art and Technology in Kraków in 1994. In 2002, he founded and led his own film school with Polish filmmaker Wojciech Marczewski. Students of Wajda School take part in different film courses led by famous European film makers.[35]

## Personal life and death

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Wajda was married four times. His third wife was actress Beata Tyszkiewicz with whom he had a daughter, Karolina (born 1967). His fourth wife was the theatre costume designer and actress Krystyna Zachwatowicz.[36]

In September 2009, Wajda called for the release of director Roman Polanski after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.[37]

Wajda died in Warsaw on 9 October 2016 at the age of 90 from pulmonary failure.[38][4] He was buried at Salwator Cemetery in Kraków.[39]

## Awards and honours

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Andrzej Wajda during the Order of the White Eagle Award Ceremony in 2011

* 2012: Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary;[40]
* 2011: Order of the White Eagle (the highest Polish distinction), Commander of the Order of Three Stars (Latvia);[41]
* 2010: Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation,[42][43] Order of Danica Hrvatska (Croatia);[44]
* 2008: Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (Ukraine),[45] Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (Estonia);[46]
* 2007: Nomination for an Academy Award for Katyń;
* 2006: Order for Merits to Lithuania;[47]
* 2006: Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival;[33]
* 2005: Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis;[48]
* 2001: Commander's Cross of Legion d'Honneur of the French Republic,[49] Great Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Doctor Honoris Causa of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography;
* 2000: Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences;[50]
* 2000: Doctor Honoris Causa of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic;[51]
* 1999: Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Freedom Award for film-making and for "unparalleled commitment to freedom" at the Freedom Film Festival in Berlin, the Crystal Iris for life achievement at the National Film Festival in Brussels;
* 1997: Praemium Imperiale Award of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Art, Silver Bear for life achievement and, specifically, for Holy Week, at the 46th Berlin Film Festival (1996); Best Director Award for Miss Nobody at the 13th Festroia International Film Festival, Portugal;
* 1997: Honourable Mention at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival for Miss Nobody;[52]
* 1996: Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival for Wielki tydzień;[53]
* 1995: Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), Doctor Honoris Causa of Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Witkacy Prize – Critics' Circle Award of the Polish ITI Centre for the promotion of the Polish theatre abroad and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Lumière University Lyon 2 in Lyon, France;
* 1994: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France);
* 1990: European Felix Award for life achievement and an outstanding achievement and artistic conduct at the Cannes International Film Festival;
* 1989: Doctor Honoris Causa of the Jagiellonian University;
* 1988: Nomination for the Golden Bear at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival for Les Possédés;[54]
* 1987: Kyoto Prize of the Japanese Inamori Foundation for contribution to the development of science, technology and ideas;[55]
* 1986: The Luigi Pirandello Award for activity and achievement in the area of theatre;
* 1985: Herder Prize for contribution to strengthening cultural relations with nations of Eastern and Southern Europe;
* 1983: César Award of the French Academy of Film Art and Technology for Danton;
* 1982: Knight of Legion d'Honneur (France); Onassis Foundation Award for work for human rights and dignity;
* 1981: Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Man of Iron;
* 1981: Nomination of an Academy Award for Man of Iron;
* 1981: Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Washington;
* 1980: FIPRESCI and Basque Cultural Society awards at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for The Orchestra Conductor;
* 1979: Golden Lions at the 6th Gdynia Film Festival for The Maids of Wilko, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes International Film Festival for Without Anesthesia, Life Achievement Award at the La Rochelle International Film Festival and Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius for contribution to the development of Polish-Bulgarian cultural co-operation;
* 1979: Nomination for an Academy Award for The Maids of Wilko;
* 1978: Golden Lions at the 5th Gdynia Film Festival for Without Anesthesia, Jury Award and Best Director Award at the 18th Cartagena Film Festival (Colombia) for Promised Land;
* 1976: Journalists Award at the 3rd Brussels International Film Festival for Promised Land, Golden Spike for The Promised Land at the Valladolid Film Festival;
* 1975: Golden Prize at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival for The Promised Land.;[56]
* 1975: Nomination for an Academy Award for The Promised Land;
* 1973: Silver Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival for directing The Wedding;
* 1964: Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta;[57]
* 1959: Jury and FIPRESCI Award at the Venice Film Festival for Ashes and Diamonds, Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta;
* 1957: Special Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival for Kanał.[5]

Salwator Cemetery
Andrzej Wajda tomb

## Filmography

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Main article: Andrzej Wajda filmography

## See also

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* Cinema of Poland
* List of Polish-language films
* Museum of Communism, Poland
* List of Poles
* List of Polish Academy Award winners and nominees

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* Wajda bibliography (via UC Berkeley)

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Films directed|

* A Generation (1955)
* Towards the Sun (1955)
* Kanał (1957)
* Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
* Lotna (1959)
* Innocent Sorcerers (1960)
* Samson (1961)
* Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962)
* Love at Twenty (1962)
* The Ashes (1965)
* Gates to Paradise (1968)
* Przekładaniec (1968)
* Everything for Sale (1969)
* Hunting Flies (1969)
* The Birch Wood (1970)
* Landscape After the Battle (1970)
* Pilate and Others (1972)
* The Wedding (1972)
* The Promised Land (1975)
* The Shadow Line (1976)
* Man of Marble (1977)
* Without Anesthesia (1978)
* The Maids of Wilko (1979)
* The Orchestra Conductor (1980)
* Man of Iron (1981)
* Danton (1983)
* A Love in Germany (1983)
* A Chronicle of Amorous Accidents (1986)
* The Possessed (1988)
* Korczak (1990)
* The Crowned-Eagle Ring (1993)
* Nastasja (1994)
* Holy Week (1995)
* Miss Nobody (1996)
* Sir Thaddeus (1999)
* The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos (2000)
* The Revenge (2002)
* Katyń (2007)
* Sweet Rush (2009)
* Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
* Afterimage (2016)

Companies|

* Zespół Filmowy "X"
* Film New Europe Association

Awards for Andrzej Wajda

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Academy Honorary Award

1928–1950|

* Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928)
* Walt Disney (1932)
* Shirley Temple (1934)
* D. W. Griffith (1935)
* The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936)
* Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937)
* J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney / Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst / Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey / Harry Warner (1938)
* Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad Nagel) / Technicolor SA (1939)
* Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1940)
* Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company / Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
* Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
* George Pal (1943)
* Bob Hope / Margaret O'Brien (1944)
* Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner (1945)
* Harold Russell / Laurence Olivier / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)
* James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
* Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948)
* Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949)
* Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950)

1951–1975|

* Gene Kelly / Rashomon (1951)
* Merian C. Cooper / Bob Hope / Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952)
* 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)
* Bausch & Lomb Optical Company / Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver / Greta Garbo / Jon Whiteley / Vincent Winter / Gate of Hell (1954)
* Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
* Eddie Cantor (1956)
* Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson / Charles Brackett / B. B. Kahane (1957)
* Maurice Chevalier (1958)
* Buster Keaton / Lee de Forest (1959)
* Gary Cooper / Stan Laurel / Hayley Mills (1960)
* William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler / Jerome Robbins (1961)
* William J. Tuttle (1964)
* Bob Hope (1965)
* Yakima Canutt / Y. Frank Freeman (1966)
* Arthur Freed (1967)
* John Chambers / Onna White (1968)
* Cary Grant (1969)
* Lillian Gish / Orson Welles (1970)
* Charlie Chaplin (1971)
* Charles S. Boren / Edward G. Robinson (1972)
* Henri Langlois / Groucho Marx (1973)
* Howard Hawks / Jean Renoir (1974)
* Mary Pickford (1975)

1976–2000|

* Margaret Booth (1977)
* Walter Lantz / Laurence Olivier / King Vidor / Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (1978)
* Hal Elias / Alec Guinness (1979)
* Henry Fonda (1980)
* Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
* Mickey Rooney (1982)
* Hal Roach (1983)
* James Stewart / National Endowment for the Arts (1984)
* Paul Newman / Alex North (1985)
* Ralph Bellamy (1986)
* Eastman Kodak Company / National Film Board of Canada (1988)
* Akira Kurosawa (1989)
* Sophia Loren / Myrna Loy (1990)
* Satyajit Ray (1991)
* Federico Fellini (1992)
* Deborah Kerr (1993)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1994)
* Kirk Douglas / Chuck Jones (1995)
* Michael Kidd (1996)
* Stanley Donen (1997)
* Elia Kazan (1998)
* Andrzej Wajda (1999)
* Jack Cardiff / Ernest Lehman (2000)

2001–present|

* Sidney Poitier / Robert Redford (2001)
* Peter O'Toole (2002)
* Blake Edwards (2003)
* Sidney Lumet (2004)
* Robert Altman (2005)
* Ennio Morricone (2006)
* Robert F. Boyle (2007)
* Lauren Bacall / Roger Corman / Gordon Willis (2009)
* Kevin Brownlow / Jean-Luc Godard / Eli Wallach (2010)
* James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011)
* D. A. Pennebaker / Hal Needham / George Stevens Jr. (2012)
* Angela Lansbury / Steve Martin / Piero Tosi (2013)
* Jean-Claude Carrière / Hayao Miyazaki / Maureen O'Hara (2014)
* Spike Lee / Gena Rowlands (2015)
* Jackie Chan / Lynn Stalmaster / Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman (2016)
* Charles Burnett / Owen Roizman / Donald Sutherland / Agnès Varda (2017)
* Marvin Levy / Lalo Schifrin / Cicely Tyson (2018)
* David Lynch / Wes Studi / Lina Wertmüller (2019)
* Samuel L. Jackson / Elaine May / Liv Ullmann (2021)
* Euzhan Palcy / Diane Warren / Peter Weir (2022)
* Angela Bassett / Mel Brooks / Carol Littleton (2023)
* Quincy Jones / Juliet Taylor (2024)

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European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

* Ingmar Bergman (1988)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1988)
* Federico Fellini (1989)
* Andrzej Wajda (1990)
* Alexandre Trauner (1991)
* Billy Wilder (1992)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1993)
* Robert Bresson (1994)
* Marcel Carné (1995)
* Alec Guinness (1996)
* Jeanne Moreau (1997)
* Ennio Morricone (1999)
* Richard Harris (2000)
* Monty Python (2001)
* Tonino Guerra (2002)
* Claude Chabrol (2003)
* Carlos Saura (2004)
* Sean Connery (2005)
* Roman Polanski (2006)
* Jean-Luc Godard (2007)
* Judi Dench (2008)
* Ken Loach (2009)
* Bruno Ganz (2010)
* Stephen Frears (2011)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (2012)
* Catherine Deneuve (2013)
* Agnès Varda (2014)
* Charlotte Rampling (2015)
* Jean-Claude Carrière (2016)
* Alexander Sokurov (2017)
* Carmen Maura (2018)
* Werner Herzog (2019)
* Márta Mészáros (2021)
* Margarethe von Trotta (2022)
* Vanessa Redgrave (2023)
* Wim Wenders (2024)

Award of Merit (Special Achievement Award)|

* Richard Attenborough (1988)
* Jeremy Irons (1998)

Honorary Award|

* Manoel de Oliveira (2007)
* Michel Piccoli (2011)
* Michael Caine (2015)
* Andrzej Wajda (2016)
* Costa-Gavras (2018)

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BAFTA Fellowship Award

1971–2000|

* Alfred Hitchcock (1971)
* Freddie Young (1972)
* Grace Wyndham Goldie (1973)
* David Lean (1974)
* Jacques Cousteau (1975)
* Charlie Chaplin (1976)
* Laurence Olivier (1976)
* Denis Forman (1977)
* Fred Zinnemann (1978)
* Lew Grade (1979)
* Huw Wheldon (1979)
* David Attenborough (1980)
* John Huston (1980)
* Abel Gance (1981)
* Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1981)
* Andrzej Wajda (1982)
* Richard Attenborough (1983)
* Hugh Greene (1984)
* Sam Spiegel (1984)
* Jeremy Isaacs (1985)
* Steven Spielberg (1986)
* Federico Fellini (1987)
* Ingmar Bergman (1988)
* Alec Guinness (1989)
* Paul Fox (1990)
* Louis Malle (1991)
* John Gielgud (1992)
* David Plowright (1992)
* Sydney Samuelson (1993)
* Colin Young (1993)
* Michael Grade (1994)
* Billy Wilder (1995)
* Jeanne Moreau (1996)
* Ronald Neame (1996)
* John Schlesinger (1996)
* Maggie Smith (1996)
* Woody Allen (1997)
* Steven Bochco (1997)
* Julie Christie (1997)
* Oswald Morris (1997)
* Harold Pinter (1997)
* David Rose (1997)
* Sean Connery (1998)
* Bill Cotton (1998)
* Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise (1999)
* Elizabeth Taylor (1999)
* Michael Caine (2000)
* Stanley Kubrick (2000)
* Peter Bazalgette (2000)

2001–present|

* Albert Finney (2001)
* John Thaw (2001)
* Judi Dench (2001)
* Warren Beatty (2002)
* Merchant Ivory Productions (2002)
* Andrew Davies (2002)
* John Mills (2002)
* Saul Zaentz (2003)
* David Jason (2003)
* John Boorman (2004)
* Roger Graef (2004)
* John Barry (2005)
* David Frost (2005)
* David Puttnam (2006)
* Ken Loach (2006)
* Anne V. Coates (2007)
* Richard Curtis (2007)
* Will Wright (2007)
* Anthony Hopkins (2008)
* Bruce Forsyth (2008)
* Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders (2009)
* Terry Gilliam (2009)
* Nolan Bushnell (2009)
* Vanessa Redgrave (2010)
* Shigeru Miyamoto (2010)
* Melvyn Bragg (2010)
* Christopher Lee (2011)
* Peter Molyneux (2011)
* Trevor McDonald (2011)
* Martin Scorsese (2012)
* ~~Rolf Harris~~ (2012)
* Alan Parker (2013)
* Gabe Newell (2013)
* Michael Palin (2013)
* Helen Mirren (2014)
* Rockstar Games (2014)
* Julie Walters (2014)
* Mike Leigh (2015)
* David Braben (2015)
* Jon Snow (2015)
* Sidney Poitier (2016)
* John Carmack (2016)
* Ray Galton & Alan Simpson (2016)
* Mel Brooks (2017)
* Joanna Lumley (2017)
* Ridley Scott (2018)
* Tim Schafer (2018)
* Kate Adie (2018)
* Thelma Schoonmaker (2019)
* Joan Bakewell (2019)
* Kathleen Kennedy (2020)
* Hideo Kojima (2020)
* Ang Lee (2021)
* Siobhan Reddy (2021)
* Billy Connolly (2022)
* Sandy Powell (2023)
* Shuhei Yoshida (2023)
* Meera Syal (2023)
* Samantha Morton (2024)
* Floella Benjamin (2024)
* Warwick Davis (2025)

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César Award for Best Director

* 1976 Bertrand Tavernier
* 1977 Joseph Losey
* 1978 Alain Resnais
* 1979 Christian de Chalonge
* 1980 Roman Polanski
* 1981 François Truffaut
* 1982 Jean-Jacques Annaud
* 1983 Andrzej Wajda
* 1984 Ettore Scola
* 1985 Claude Zidi
* 1986 Michel Deville
* 1987 Alain Cavalier
* 1988 Louis Malle
* 1989 Jean-Jacques Annaud
* 1990 Bertrand Blier
* 1991 Jean-Paul Rappeneau
* 1992 Alain Corneau
* 1993 Claude Sautet
* 1994 Alain Resnais
* 1995 André Téchiné
* 1996 Claude Sautet
* 1997 Patrice Leconte / Bertrand Tavernier
* 1998 Luc Besson
* 1999 Patrice Chéreau
* 2000 Tonie Marshall
* 2001 Dominik Moll
* 2002 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
* 2003 Roman Polanski
* 2004 Denys Arcand
* 2005 Abdellatif Kechiche
* 2006 Jacques Audiard
* 2007 Guillaume Canet
* 2008 Abdellatif Kechiche
* 2009 Jean-François Richet
* 2010 Jacques Audiard
* 2011 Roman Polanski
* 2012 Michel Hazanavicius
* 2013 Michael Haneke
* 2014 Roman Polanski
* 2015 Abderrahmane Sissako
* 2016 Arnaud Desplechin
* 2017 Xavier Dolan
* 2018 Albert Dupontel
* 2019 Jacques Audiard
* 2020 Roman Polanski
* 2021 Albert Dupontel
* 2022 Leos Carax
* 2023 Dominik Moll
* 2024 Justine Triet

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Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

1969–2000|

* Luis Buñuel (1969)
* Orson Welles (1970)
* John Ford / Marcel Carné / Ingmar Bergman (1971)
* Charlie Chaplin / Anatoli Golovnya / Billy Wilder (1972)
* Alessandro Blasetti / Luis Buñuel / Frank Capra / George Cukor / Jean-Luc Godard / Alexander Kluge / Akira Kurosawa / Michael Powell / Satyajit Ray / King Vidor / Sergei Yutkevich / Cesare Zavattini (1982)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1983)
* Federico Fellini (1985)
* Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1986)
* Luigi Comencini / Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1987)
* Joris Ivens (1988)
* Robert Bresson (1989)
* Miklós Jancsó / Marcello Mastroianni (1990)
* Mario Monicelli / Gian Maria Volonté (1991)
* Francis Ford Coppola / Jeanne Moreau / Paolo Villaggio (1992)
* Claudia Cardinale / Robert De Niro / Roman Polanski / Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Suso Cecchi d'Amico / Ken Loach / Al Pacino (1994)
* Woody Allen / Giuseppe De Santis / Goffredo Lombardo / Ennio Morricone / Alain Resnais / Martin Scorsese / Alberto Sordi / Monica Vitti (1995)
* Robert Altman / Vittorio Gassman / Dustin Hoffman / Michèle Morgan (1996)
* Gérard Depardieu / Stanley Kubrick / Alida Valli (1997)
* Warren Beatty / Sophia Loren / Andrzej Wajda (1998)
* Jerry Lewis (1999)
* Clint Eastwood (2000)

2001–present|

* Éric Rohmer (2001)
* Dino Risi (2002)
* Dino De Laurentiis / Omar Sharif (2003)
* Manoel de Oliveira / Stanley Donen (2004)
* Hayao Miyazaki / Stefania Sandrelli (2005)
* David Lynch (2006)
* Tim Burton (2007)
* Ermanno Olmi (2008)
* John Lasseter (2009)
* John Woo (2010)
* Marco Bellocchio (2011)
* Francesco Rosi (2012)
* William Friedkin (2013)
* Thelma Schoonmaker / Frederick Wiseman (2014)
* Bertrand Tavernier (2015)
* Jean-Paul Belmondo / Jerzy Skolimowski (2016)
* Jane Fonda / Robert Redford (2017)
* David Cronenberg / Vanessa Redgrave (2018)
* Pedro Almodóvar / Julie Andrews (2019)
* Ann Hui / Tilda Swinton (2020)
* Roberto Benigni / Jamie Lee Curtis (2021)
* Catherine Deneuve / Paul Schrader (2022)
* Liliana Cavani / Tony Leung Chiu-wai (2023)
* Sigourney Weaver / Peter Weir (2024)

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Honorary César

1976–2000|

* Ingrid Bergman (1976)
* Diana Ross (1976)
* Henri Langlois (1977)
* Jacques Tati (1977)
* Robert Dorfmann (1978)
* René Goscinny (1978)
* Marcel Carné (1979)
* Charles Vanel (1979)
* Walt Disney (1979)
* Pierre Braunberger (1980)
* Louis de Funès (1980)
* Kirk Douglas (1980)
* Marcel Pagnol (1981)
* Alain Resnais (1981)
* Georges Dancigers (1982)
* Alexandre Mnouchkine (1982)
* Jean Nény (1982)
* Andrzej Wajda (1982)
* Raimu (1983)
* René Clément (1984)
* Georges de Beauregard (1984)
* Edwige Feuillère (1984)
* Christian-Jaque (1985)
* Danielle Darrieux (1985)
* Christine Gouze-Rénal (1985)
* Alain Poiré (1985)
* Maurice Jarre (1986)
* Bette Davis (1986)
* Jean Delannoy (1986)
* René Ferracci (1986)
* Claude Lanzmann (1986)
* Jean-Luc Godard (1987)
* Serge Silberman (1988)
* Bernard Blier (1989)
* Paul Grimault (1989)
* Gérard Philipe (1990)
* Jean-Pierre Aumont (1991)
* Sophia Loren (1991)
* Michèle Morgan (1992)
* Sylvester Stallone (1992)
* Jean Marais (1993)
* Marcello Mastroianni (1993)
* Gérard Oury (1993)
* Jean Carmet (1994)
* Jeanne Moreau (1995)
* Gregory Peck (1995)
* Steven Spielberg (1995)
* Lauren Bacall (1996)
* Henri Verneuil (1996)
* Charles Aznavour (1997)
* Andie MacDowell (1997)
* Michael Douglas (1998)
* Clint Eastwood (1998)
* Jean-Luc Godard (1998)
* Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
* Johnny Depp (1999)
* Jean Rochefort (1999)
* Josiane Balasko (2000)
* Georges Cravenne (2000)
* Jean-Pierre Léaud (2000)
* Martin Scorsese (2000)

2001–present|

* Darry Cowl (2001)
* Charlotte Rampling (2001)
* Agnès Varda (2001)
* Anouk Aimée (2002)
* Jeremy Irons (2002)
* Claude Rich (2002)
* Bernadette Lafont (2003)
* Spike Lee (2003)
* Meryl Streep (2003)
* Micheline Presle (2004)
* Jacques Dutronc (2005)
* Will Smith (2005)
* Hugh Grant (2006)
* Pierre Richard (2006)
* Marlène Jobert (2007)
* Jude Law (2007)
* Jeanne Moreau (2008)
* Roberto Benigni (2008)
* Romy Schneider (2008)
* Dustin Hoffman (2009)
* Harrison Ford (2010)
* Quentin Tarantino (2011)
* Kate Winslet (2012)
* Kevin Costner (2013)
* Scarlett Johansson (2014)
* Sean Penn (2015)
* Michael Douglas (2016)
* George Clooney (2017)
* Penélope Cruz (2018)
* Robert Redford (2019)
* Cate Blanchett (2022)
* David Fincher (2023)
* Agnès Jaoui (2024)
* Christopher Nolan (2024)
* Julia Roberts (2025)
* Costa-Gavras (2025)

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Honorary Golden Bear

* James Stewart (1982)
* Alec Guinness (1988)
* Dustin Hoffman (1989)
* Oliver Stone (1990)
* Gregory Peck / Billy Wilder (1993)
* Sophia Loren (1994)
* Alain Delon (1995)
* Elia Kazan / Jack Lemmon (1996)
* Kim Novak (1997)
* Catherine Deneuve (1998)
* Shirley MacLaine (1999)
* Jeanne Moreau (2000)
* Kirk Douglas (2001)
* Robert Altman / Claudia Cardinale (2002)
* Anouk Aimée (2003)
* Fernando Solanas (2004)
* Fernando Fernán Gómez / Im Kwon-taek (2005)
* Ian McKellen / Andrzej Wajda (2006)
* Arthur Penn (2007)
* Francesco Rosi (2008)
* Maurice Jarre (2009)
* Wolfgang Kohlhaase / Hanna Schygulla (2010)
* Armin Mueller-Stahl (2011)
* Meryl Streep (2012)
* Claude Lanzmann (2013)
* Ken Loach (2014)
* Wim Wenders (2015)
* Michael Ballhaus (2016)
* Milena Canonero (2017)
* Willem Dafoe (2018)
* Charlotte Rampling (2019)
* Helen Mirren (2020)
* Isabelle Huppert (2022)
* Steven Spielberg (2023)
* Martin Scorsese (2024)
* Tilda Swinton (2025)

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London Film Critics' Circle Award for Director of the Year

1980–2000|

* Nicolas Roeg (1980)
* Andrzej Wajda (1981)
* Costa-Gavras (1982)
* Andrzej Wajda (1983)
* Neil Jordan (1984)
* Roland Joffé (1985)
* Akira Kurosawa (1986)
* Stanley Kubrick (1987)
* John Huston (1988)
* Terence Davies (1989)
* Woody Allen (1990)
* Ridley Scott (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* James Ivory (1993)
* Steven Spielberg (1994)
* Peter Jackson (1995)
* Joel Coen (1996)
* Curtis Hanson (1997)
* Peter Weir (1998)
* Sam Mendes (1999)
* Spike Jonze (2000)

2001–present|

* Alejandro González Iñárritu (2001)
* Phillip Noyce (2002)
* Clint Eastwood (2003)
* Martin Scorsese (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Paul Greengrass (2006)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
* David Fincher (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Ang Lee (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* László Nemes (2016)
* Sean Baker (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Steve McQueen (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Todd Field (2022)
* Jonathan Glazer (2023)

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Herder Prize laureates

1964–1970|

* 1964: Oto Bihalji-Merin
* Jan Kott
* Stanisław Lorentz
* Lucijan Marija Škerjanc
* 1965: Tudor Arghezi
* Manolis Hatzidakis
* Emanuel Hruška
* Zoltán Kodály
* László Németh
* Hugo Rokyta
* Hristo Vakarelski
* 1966: Ján Cikker
* Dezső Dercsényi
* Zlatko Gorjan
* Aleksander Kobzdej
* Anton Kriesis
* Niko Kuret
* Dimiter Statkov
* 1967: Iván Fenyő
* Vladimír Kompánek
* Witold Lutosławski
* Spyridon Marinatos
* Alexandru A. Philippide
* Mihai Pop
* Svetozar Radojčić
* 1968: Constantin Daicoviciu
* Roman Ingarden
* Miroslav Krleža
* Ludvík Kunz
* Anastasios Orlandos
* Lajos Vayer
* Pancho Vladigerov
* 1969: Jolán Balogh
* Albín Brunovský
* Bohuslav Fuchs
* Mihail Jora
* Marijan Matković
* Ksawery Piwocki
* France Stele
* 1970: Jan Białostocki
* Jan Filip
* Zoltán Franyó
* Milovan Gavazzi
* Gyula Illyés
* Yiannis Papaioannou
* Zeko Torbov

1971–1980|

* 1971: Jiří Kolář
* Blaže Koneski
* Georgios Megas
* Kazimierz Michałowski
* Mihail Sokolovski
* Zaharia Stancu
* Bence Szabolcsi
* 1972: Dragotin Cvetko
* Atanas Dalchev
* Branko Maksimović
* Gyula Ortutay
* Jaroslav Pešina
* Henryk Stażewski
* Virgil Vătășianu
* 1973: Veselin Beshevliev
* Stylianos Harkianakis
* János Harmatta
* Zbigniew Herbert
* Eugen Jebeleanu
* Petar Lubarda
* Jan Racek
* 1974: Władysław Czerny
* Ivan Duichev
* Ivo Frangeš
* László Gerő
* Stylianos Pelekanidis
* Ján Podolák
* Zeno Vancea
* 1975: Józef Burszta
* Hristo M. Danov
* Stanislav Libenský
* Maria Ana Musicescu
* Gábor Preisich
* Pandelis Prevelakis
* Stanojlo Rajičić
* 1976: Jagoda Buić
* Marin Goleminov
* Ioannis Kakridis
* Dezső Keresztury
* Nichita Stănescu
* Rudolf Turek
* Kazimierz Wejchert
* 1977: Nikolaos Andriotis
* Riko Debenjak
* Emmanuel Kriaras
* Albert Kutal
* Máté Major
* Krzysztof Penderecki
* Anastas Petrov
* Ion Vladutiu
* 1978: Eugen Barbu
* Đurđe Bošković
* Kazimierz Dejmek
* Stoyan Dzudzev
* Béla Gunda
* Jiří Hrůza
* Yiannis Spyropoulos
* 1979: Magdalena Abakanowicz
* Ferenc Farkas
* Zdenko Kolacio
* Atanas Natev
* András Sütő
* Pavel Trost
* Apostolos E. Vacalopoulos
* 1980: Gordana Babić-Đorđević
* Iván Balassa
* Kamil Lhoták
* Manousos Manousakas
* Vera Mutafchieva
* Alexandru Rosetti
* Wiktor Zin

1981–1990|

* 1981: Emil Condurachi
* Sándor Csoóri
* Stefka Georgieva
* Dimitrios Loukatos
* Vjenceslav Richter
* Eugen Suchoň
* Elida Maria Szarota
* 1982: Athanasios Aravantinos
* Ana Blandiana
* Vojislav J. Đurić
* Sona Kovacevicová
* Aleksandar Nichev
* Jan Józef Szczepański
* Imre Varga
* 1983: Władysław Bartoszewski
* Géza Entz
* Jozef Jankovič
* Gunther Schuller
* Zdenko Škreb
* Stefana Stoykova
* C. A. Trypanis
* 1984: Emilijan Cevc
* Konstantinos Dimaras
* Karel Horálek
* György Konrád
* Constantin Lucaci
* Krasimir Manchev
* Krzysztof Meyer
* 1985: Branko Fučić
* Růžena Grebeníčková
* Adrian Marino
* Demetrios Pallas
* Károly Perczel
* Simeon Pironkov
* Andrzej Wajda
* 1986: Georgi Baev
* Tekla Dömötör
* Boris Gaberščik
* Konrad Górski
* Johannes Karayannopoulos
* Jiří Kotalík
* Anatol Vieru
* 1987: Roman Brandstaetter
* Doula Mouriki
* József Ujfalussy
* Vladimir Veličković
* Velizar Velkov
* Gheorghe Vrabie
* 1988: Roman Berger
* Christos Kapralos
* Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga
* György Györffy
* Donka Petkanova
* Mieczysław Porębski
* Edvard Ravnikar
* 1989: Maria Banuș
* Ákos Birkás
* Jerzy Buszkiewicz
* Václav Frolec
* Nikolai Genchev
* Petar Miljković-Pepek
* Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis
* 1990: Liviu Calin
* Bronisław Geremek
* Aris Konstantinidis
* Dejan Medaković
* Virginia Paskaleva
* Adriena Šimotová
* András Vizkelety

1991–2000|

* 1991: Maja Bošković-Stulli
* Gerard Labuda
* Andor Pigler
* Yorgos Sicilianos
* Emil Skála
* Marin Sorescu
* Stoimen Stoilov
* 1992: Manolis Andronikos
* Jenő Barabás
* Blaga Dimitrova
* Stefan Kaszynski
* Jiří Kořalka
* Zmaga Kumer
* Jon Nicodim
* 1993: Vasilka Gerasimova-Tomova
* Petro Kononenko
* György Kurtág
* Jerzy Tchórzewski
* Răzvan Theodorescu
* Elena Várossová
* Māra Zālīte
* Dionysis Zivas
* Viktor Žmegač
* 1994: István Borzsák
* Dževad Juzbašić
* Ștefan Niculescu
* Andrzej Szczypiorski
* Jitka and Květa Válová
* Takis Varvitsiotis
* Zigmas Zinkevičius
* 1995: Sándor Kányádi
* Mirko Kovač
* Milcho Lalkov
* Michael G. Meraklis
* Mindaugas Navakas
* Wisława Szymborska
* Jaan Undusk
* 1996: Tamás Hofer
* Karel Hubáček
* Konstantin Iliev
* Marin Mincu
* Jože Pogačnik
* Pēteris Vasks
* Marian Zgórniak
* 1997: Tasos Athanasiadis
* Bogdan Bogdanović
* Oskár Elschek
* Ferenc Glatz
* Lech Kalinowski
* Jaan Kross
* Dunja Rihtman-Auguštin
* 1998: Imre Bak
* Andrei Corbea-Hoișie
* Eliška Fučíková
* Ismail Kadare
* Justinas Marcinkevičius
* Dorota Simonides
* Elena Toncheva
* 1999: Svetlana Alexievich
* Vera Bitrakova-Grozdanova
* Mircea Dinescu
* István Fried
* Henryk Górecki
* Dževad Karahasan
* Ferdinand Milučký
* 2000: Ján Bakoš
* Ivan Čolović
* Nikola Georgiev
* Imre Kertész
* Milan Kundera
* Karolos Mitsakis
* Arvo Pärt

2001–2006|

* 2001: Yurii Andrukhovych
* Janez Bernik
* János Böhönyey
* Maria Kłańska
* Marek Kopelent
* Andrej Mitrović
* Evanghelos Moutsopoulos
* 2002: George Demetrius Bambiniotis
* Māris Čaklais
* Péter Esterházy
* Radost Ivanova
* Nedjeljko Fabrio
* Aurel Stroe
* Lech Trzeciakowski
* 2003: Vasil Gyuzelev
* Drago Jančar
* Károly Manherz
* Stanisław Mossakowski
* Ales Rasanau
* Ludvík Václavek
* Ana Maria Zahariade
* 2004: Theodore Antoniou
* Michał Głowiński
* Dušan Kováč
* Fatos Lubonja
* Éva Pócs
* Kazimir Popkonstantinov
* Romualdas Požerskis
* 2005: Károly Klimó
* Hanna Krall
* Primož Kuret
* Jiří Kuthan
* Andrei Marga
* Eimuntas Nekrošius
* Krešimir Nemec
* 2006: Włodzimierz Borodziej
* Nicos Hadjinicolaou
* Gabriela Kiliánová
* Ene Mihkelson
* Vojteh Ravnikar

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Witkacy Prize - Critics' Circle Award

1984–1989|

* Jerzy Jarocki (1984)
* Kazimierz Dejmek (1984)
* Henryk Tomaszewski (1984)
* Zofia Jarema (1984)
* Jerzy Stuhr (1988)
* Cricot 2 – Tadeusz Kantor (1989)

1990–1999|

* Józef Szajna (1992)
* Erwin Axer (1993)
* Andrzej Wajda (1995)
* Andrzej Seweryn (1996)
* Krystyna Meissner (1997)
* Wierszalin Theatre – Piotr Tomaszuk (1998)

2000–2009|

* Krystian Lupa (2000)
* Jerzy Radziwiłowicz (2000)
* Tadeusz Bradecki (2001)
* Provisorium Theatre – Janusz Opryński (2002)
* Krzysztof Warlikowski (2003)
* Travel Agency Theatre – Paweł Szkotak (2004)
* Grzegorz Jarzyna (2005)
* Mariusz Treliński (2006)
* Ewa Wycichowska (2007)
* The Eighth Day Theatre (2008)
* Silesian Dance Theatre – Jacek Łumiński (2009)

2010–2019|

* Song of the Goat Theatre – Grzegorz Bral (2010)
* Białystok Puppet Theatre – Marek Waszkiel (2011)
* Stefan Sutkowski (2013)
* Andrzej Wirth (2014)
* Janina Szarek (2015)
* Andrzej Szczytko (2016)
* Włodzimierz Herman (2017)
* Jarosław Bielski (2018)

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