FILM DIRECTOR

Andrzej Wajda

1926 - 2016

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Andrzej Witold Wajda (Polish: [ˈandʐɛj ˈvajda]; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrzej Wajda has received more than 1,011,827 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Andrzej Wajda is the 34th most popular film director (up from 39th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Poland (up from 58th in 2019) and the 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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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Andrzej Wajda ranks 34 out of 2,041. Before him are George Lucas, Miloš Forman, Konstantin Stanislavski, Fritz Lang, Roger Vadim, and Quentin Tarantino. After him are Tinto Brass, Tim Burton, Ken Loach, John Ford, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and James Cameron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Andrzej Wajda ranks 11. Before him are Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ingvar Kamprad, Jiang Zemin, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Leslie Nielsen, and Dario Fo. After him are Svetlana Alliluyeva, René Goscinny, Klaus Kinski, Sathya Sai Baba, Chuck Berry, and Miles Davis. Among people deceased in 2016, Andrzej Wajda ranks 15. Before him are Alan Rickman, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Leonard Cohen, Zaha Hadid, Imre Kertész, and Dario Fo. After him are Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Islam Karimov, Cesare Maldini, Carlos Alberto Torres, João Havelange, and George Michael.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Andrzej Wajda ranks 35 out of 1,694. Before him are Ernst Cassirer (1874), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), and Günther von Kluge (1882). After him are Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Kurt Lewin (1890), Christian Wolff (1679), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), and Irena Sendler (1910).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Andrzej Wajda ranks 1. After him are Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Billy Wilder (1906), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939).

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