Roman Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Born in Paris to Polish parents, Polański relocated with his family to Poland in 1937. After surviving the Holocaust, he continued his education in Poland and became a critically acclaimed director of both art house and commercial films. Polański's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, and in 2002 received the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist. He has also been the recipient of two Baftas, four Césars, a Golden Globe and the Palme d'Or. He left Poland in 1961 to live in France for several years, then moved to the United Kingdom where he collaborated with Gérard Brach on three films, beginning with Repulsion (1965). In 1968 he moved to the United States, immediately cementing his burgeoning directing status with the 1968 groundbreaking Academy Award winning horror film Rosemary's Baby. In 1969, Polański's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered while staying at the Polańskis' Benedict Canyon home above Los Angeles by members of the Manson Family. Following Tate's death, Polański returned to Europe and spent much of his time in Paris and Gstaad, but did not make another film until he filmed Macbeth (1971) in England. The following year he went to Italy to make What? (1973) and subsequently spent the next five years living near Rome. However, he traveled to Hollywood to direct Chinatown (1974) for Paramount Pictures, with Robert Evans serving as producer. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and was a critical and box-office success; the script by Robert Towne won for Best Original Screenplay. Polański's next film, The Tenant (1976), was shot in France, and completed the "Apartment Trilogy", following Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. In 1977, after a photo shoot in Los Angeles, Polański was arrested for the sexual abuse of a 13 year old girl. He was charged with rape but pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor. To avoid sentencing, Polański fled to his home in London, and then moved on to France the following day. He has had a U.S. arrest warrant outstanding since then, and an international arrest warrant since 2005. Polański continued to make films such as The Pianist (2002), a World War II-set adaptation of Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman's autobiography of the same name, which echoed some of Polański's earlier life experiences. Like Szpilman, Polański escaped the ghetto and the concentration camps while family members were killed. The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director, the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, and seven French César Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. He then released the successful films Oliver Twist (2005), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), and The Ghost Writer (2010), completed while under house arrest. In September 2009, Polański was arrested by Swiss police, at the request of U.S. authorities, when he traveled to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival. In October 2009, the U.S. requested his extradition; however, on July 12, 2010, the Swiss rejected that request and instead declared him a "free man" after releasing him from custody.
120 movies · 23 shows
La scripte
2026·0.0
Breakdown: 1975
2025·6.8
Being Bo Widerberg
2025·8.0
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
2025·6.3
Chaos: The Manson Murders
2025·6.1
The Family
2023·6.0
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022·7.8
Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort
2021·8.0
Polanski, Horowitz. The Wizards From the Ghetto
2021·5.9
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020·2.0
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
2019·6.0
An Officer and a Spy
2019·7.1
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019·6.7
Valerie
2019·3.0
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
2018·6.0
Mansfield 66/67
2017·4.8
Face of Evil: The Charles Manson Murders
2015·2.0
Roman by Polanski
2015·0.0
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
2015·7.2
Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
2014·5.0
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014·6.7
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014·4.0
Weekend of a Champion
2013·6.6
Seduced and Abandoned
2013·6.2
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012·6.5
Close Up
2012·9.5
Komeda, Komeda...
2012·0.0
Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out
2012·6.0
A Special Day
2012·6.0
Remembering 'Rosemary's Baby'
2012·6.0
Carnage
2011·7.2
Cracow by Polanski
2010·0.0
Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
2010·7.8
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010·7.2
Memories of a Young Pianist
2009·5.0
On the Trail of the New Wave
2009·0.0
Bicycle
2008·5.0
Il falso bugiardo
2008·0.0
Quiet Chaos
2008·6.5
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008·6.3
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007·7.8
Rush Hour 3
2007·6.5
Once Upon a Time... 'Tess'
2007·6.0
Polanski par Polanski
2006·0.0
The Best of Twist: Sets, Costumes & Photography
2006·3.0
Twist by Polanski
2006·3.0
Tess: The Experience
2004·8.5
Filming 'Tess'
2004·9.0
Tess: From Novel to Screen
2004·8.0
Two Gangsters and an Island
2003·7.5
Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West
2003·8.0
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003·7.1
A British Horror Film
2003·5.6
Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence
2002·6.5
The Revenge
2002·5.7
Polanski y los ojos del mal
2002·8.0
Heart of the Festival
2002·6.5
The Unbeatable Bruce Lee
2001·8.4
Rosemary's Baby: A Retrospective
2000·5.0
Light Keeps Me Company
2000·7.9
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
2000·5.0
The Ten Commandments of Creativity
2000·8.3
Last Pictures
2000·0.0
The Last Days of Sharon Tate
1999·0.0
Playboy: The Story of X
1998·6.8
Dracula: The True Story
1997·6.5
Elle s'appelait Françoise
1996·9.0
Empire of the Censors
1995·5.3
Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski
1995·2.0
Dead Tired
1994·6.0
A Pure Formality
1994·7.4
Back in the USSR
1992·5.0
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
1992·5.2
Dracula in the Movies
1992·10.0
En attendant Godot
1989·5.0
Frantic
1988·6.7
Clive James Meets Roman Polanski
1984·0.0
Chassé-croisé
1982·3.0
Ciné regards: Tess: Roman Polanski
1979·0.0
The Evolution of Snuff
1978·3.9
The Tenant
1976·7.6
Blood for Dracula
1974·5.7
Chinatown
1974·7.9
What?
1972·5.4
Con bravura
1972·0.0
Weekend of a Champion
1972·7.3
Polanski Meets Macbeth
1972·0.0
Elvis: That's the Way It Is
1970·8.1
Ciao, Federico!
1970·7.2
The Magic Christian
1969·5.8
Mia and Roman
1968·6.0
The New Cinema
1968·0.0
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
1967·5.0
The Fearless Vampire Killers
1967·7.0
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967·4.5
The Nomad
1967·0.0
Lionpower from MGM
1967·6.3
Repulsion
1965·7.4
The River of Diamonds
1964·7.5
Knife in the Water
1962·7.3
The Fat and the Lean
1961·6.1
Samson
1961·4.8
Ostrożnie yeti
1961·3.8
Innocent Sorcerers
1960·7.0
Goodbye, Till Tomorrow
1960·6.6
Bad Luck
1960·6.8
When Angels Fall
1959·6.6
Lotna
1959·5.8
The Lamp
1959·6.0
What Will My Wife Say to This?
1958·3.3
Two Men and a Wardrobe
1958·6.4
Koniec nocy
1957·4.8
Wraki
1957·5.1
Kanal
1957·7.7
Nikodem Dyzma
1956·4.7
Magical Bicycle
1955·4.5
Trzy starty
1955·7.0
A Generation
1955·7.0
Godzina bez słońca
1955·1.0
Three Stories
1953·5.0