Film Director

Andrzej Wajda

Polish film director

1926 - 2016

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His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2024). Andrzej Wajda is the 48th most popular film director (down from 34th in 2024), the 70th most popular biography from Poland (down from 35th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Film Director.

Andrzej Wajda is most famous for being a Polish film director. He is best known for his 1975 film "The Promised Land" which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Andrzej Wajda ranks #48 of 2,296 Film Directors worldwide, placing them among the top 3% of the profession.

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Andrzej Wajda's biography appears in 69 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 97% of all Film Directors.

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Among Film Directors

Among film directors, Andrzej Wajda ranks 48 out of 2,296. Before him are Isao Takahata, Tinto Brass, Tim Burton, Roberto Rossellini, Ken Loach, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. After him are Robert Zemeckis, George Miller, Oliver Stone, Theo Angelopoulos, Roger Vadim, and Takeshi Kitano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Andrzej Wajda ranks 21. Before him are Klaus Kinski, René Goscinny, Sathya Sai Baba, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Nuon Chea, and Prince Claus of the Netherlands. After him are Chuck Berry, Miles Davis, Irwin Rose, Harper Lee, Hugh Hefner, and Jerry Lewis. Among people deceased in 2016, Andrzej Wajda ranks 22. Before him are Dario Fo, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Cesare Maldini, Pierre Boulez, George Michael, and Nancy Reagan. After him are Carlos Alberto Torres, João Havelange, Harper Lee, Prince, Abbas Kiarostami, and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Andrzej Wajda ranks 70 out of 2,054. Before him are Irena Sendler (1910), Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), Gustav Fechner (1801), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), and Friedrich Bergius (1884). After him are Christian Wolff (1679), Emil von Behring (1854), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Werner von Blomberg (1878), and Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046).

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Among Film Directors In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Andrzej Wajda ranks 3. Before him are Billy Wilder (1906), and Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941). After him are Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939).

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