Jerzy Skolimowski

Biography

Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist, actor and painter. Beginning as a screenwriter for Andrzej Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers (1960), Skolimowski has made more than twenty films since his directorial debut The Menacing Eye (1960). In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his Belgian film The Departure (1967). Among his other notable films is Deep End (1970), starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown; The Shout (1978), starring Alan Bates, Susannah York and John Hurt; Moonlighting (1982), starring Jeremy Irons; and Essential Killing (2010), starring Vincent Gallo.

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Awards & recognition

• ★European University Film Award · 2022
• ★Best Screenplay Award · 1982
• ★Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• ★German Film Award
• ☆European Film Award — Best Director · 2022 · nominated