FILM DIRECTOR

Jerzy Skolimowski

1938 - Today

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Jerzy Skolimowski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ skɔliˈmɔfskʲi]; born 5 May 1938) 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerzy Skolimowski has received more than 548,931 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Jerzy Skolimowski is the 178th most popular film director (up from 192nd in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from Poland (down from 217th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Film Director.

Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is most famous for his films "Deep End" and "The Shout."

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  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jerzy Skolimowski ranks 178 out of 2,041. Before him are Roy Andersson, Genndy Tartakovsky, Nagisa Oshima, Jacques Rivette, Gordon Parks, and Gillo Pontecorvo. After him are Don Siegel, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Francesco Rosi, Blake Edwards, Theo van Gogh, and Kathryn Bigelow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jerzy Skolimowski ranks 65. Before him are Marcello Gandini, István Szabó, Dean Reed, Bounnhang Vorachith, Ed Lauter, and Jerry West. After him are Leiji Matsumoto, Wim Kok, Mamadou Tandja, Carlos Bilardo, Tomas Lindahl, and Ivan Sutherland.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jerzy Skolimowski ranks 218 out of 1,694. Before him are Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Yisrael Kristal (1903), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Piast the Wheelwright (800), and Władysław I Herman (1043). After him are Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Jerzy Kukuczka (1948), Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Emil Ludwig (1881), and Hans Modrow (1928).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Jerzy Skolimowski ranks 7. Before him are Andrzej Wajda (1926), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Billy Wilder (1906), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), and Jerzy Grotowski (1933). After him are Agnieszka Holland (1948), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), and Walerian Borowczyk (1923).

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