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Oscar nominations
The movie is one of five works in the Best Foreign Language Film category. “Of course, I put blood, sweat and tears into the film,” she told Polish Radio after hearing the nominations. However, she said that her greatest joy has been the movie's tremendous reception in her homeland over the last two weeks. “I didn't think that so many of our countrymen would flock to the cinemas to see my film,” she revealed. “After such a reaction – and I say this without any coquetry – I feel the film was a success.” In Darkness is based on the true life story of a Polish sewage worker who helps save a group of Jews during the Second World War. The events take place in the Nazi-occupied city of Lwow, which had been part of south east Poland before the war (today it is Lviv in Ukraine)
The list of Oscar nominations also includes US-based Janusz Kamiński, the director of cinematography on Steven Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’, one of the nine films in the competition for the Best Movie Oscar. Kamiński has photographed all of Spielberg's movies since 1993's Schindler's List, with the exception of Jurassic Park.