Activities : Executive Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Founder
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RP Productions : Founder

RP Productions
102 av. des Champs Elysées
75008 Paris
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Chacun son cinéma(2007), from Théo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michaël Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joël Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitaï, Hsiao Hsien Hou, Aki Kaurismäki, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsaï Ming-Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yimou
Oliver Twist(2004), from Roman Polanski
The Pianist(2001), from Roman Polanski
The Ninth Gate(1999), from Roman Polanski
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit(1999), from Jean Rousselot
A Pure Formality(1994), from Giuseppe Tornatore
Death and the Maiden(1994), from Roman Polanski
Bitter Moon(1992), from Roman Polanski
Frantic(1988), from Roman Polanski
Pirates(1986), from Roman Polanski

Complete filmography

Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933. When he was three, his parents, both Polish Jews, returned with him to Poland, where he grew up under the Nazi occupation, living with a family of peasants after escaping from the Krakow ghetto on the day it was liquidated. While a student at the Lodz Cinema School, he made several shorts including "Two Men and a Wardrobe" in 1958, which won five international awards, and "When Angels Fall" in 1959. After graduating, he lived in Paris for two years. In 1962, he was hailed as a brilliant young talent when his first feature, "Knife in the Water," was released. It won the Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival and an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1964, he directed his first film in English, "Repulsion," starring Catherine Deneuve, which won the Berlin Film Festival's Silver Bear Award in 1955. The following year, "Cul de Sac" won the Golden Bear at the same festival. In his next film, "The Fearless Vampire Killers," he also played the lead role. The huge box office success of "Rosemary’s Baby" earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay as well as the David di Donatello Award in Italy in 1969. In 1971, Roman Polanski returned to Europe to film his adaptation of "Macbeth." The following year, he directed Marcello Mastroianni in "What?" produced by Carlo Ponti. His next film, "Chinatown," received 11 Oscar nominations and won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. In 1979, "Tess," starring Nastassja Kinski, won 6 Oscar nominations, 3 Oscars, a Cesar award, a British Academy Award and Polanski was elected Best Director by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. In the '80s, he directed "Pirates," and "Frantic," a thriller starring Harrison Ford. "Bitter Moon" in 1992 starred Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott-Thomas. His most recent films are "Death and the Maiden" (1995), starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley, and "The Ninth Gate," starring Johnny Depp and Emmanuelle Seigner. Throughout his career, Roman Polanski has received numerous lifetime achievement awards, including a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1993, the Raoul Lévy Award in 1975, the Académie Française's René Clair Award in 1999, the European Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1999, and the Stockholm Film Festival's career award in 1999. Roman Polanski began shooting the adaptation of "The Pianist," the autobiography of the musician Vladislav Szpilman, in Warsaw in December, 2000.