The Pianist (2002 film)
The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film produced and directed by Roman Polanski, the script was written by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody.
It is based on the autobiographical book" The Pianist", a Holocaust memoir by the Polish- Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, a Holocaust survivor.
The film was a co-production of France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland.
" The Pianist" met with significant critical praise, and received multiple awards and nominations.
It was awarded the Palme d' Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
At the 75th Academy Awards," The Pianist" won Oscars for Best Director( Roman Polanski), Best Adapted Screenplay( Ronald Harwood), and Best Actor( Adrien Brody), and was nominated for four other awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture.
It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 2003, and seven French Césars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Brody.
It was included in BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Peter Levin
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Ian Barry (director)
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Roman Polanski
Roman Polański( born 18 August 1933 in Paris; original name Raymond Thierry Liebling) is a French- Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor.
Since 1978, Polanski has been a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system; he fled the country while awaiting sentencing in his sexual abuse case, in which he pleaded guilty to statutory rape.
His Polish- Jewish parents moved the family back from Paris to Kraków in 1937.
Two years later, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany starting World War II and the Polanskis found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto.
After his mother and father were taken in raids, Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes under an adopted identity, trying to survive the Holocaust.
Polanski's first feature- length film," Knife in the Water"( 1962), was made in Poland and was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
He has since received five more Oscar nominations, along with two BAFTAs, four Césars, a Golden Globe Award and the Palme d' Or of the Cannes Film Festival in France.
In the United Kingdom he directed three films, beginning with" Repulsion"( 1965).
In 1968, he moved to the United States and cemented his status by directing the horror film" Rosemary's Baby"( 1968).
A turning point in his life took place in 1969, when his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and four friends were brutally murdered by members of the Manson Family.
Following her death, Polanski returned to Europe and eventually continued directing.
He made" Macbeth"( 1971) in England and back in Hollywood," Chinatown"( 1974), which was nominated for eleven Academy Awards.
In 1977, Polanski was arrested and charged with drugging and raping a 13- year- old girl.
He subsequently pled guilty to the lesser offence of unlawful sex with a minor.
After spending 42 days undergoing psychiatric evaluation in prison in preparation for sentencing, Polanski, who had expected to be put on probation, fled to Paris after learning that the judge planned to reject his plea deal and impose a prison term.
In Europe, Polanski continued to make films, including" Tess"( 1979), starring Nastassja Kinski.
It won France's César Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, and received three Oscars.
He later produced and directed" The Pianist"( 2002), a drama about a Jewish- Polish musician escaping Nazi persecution, starring Adrien Brody and Emilia Fox.
The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director, along with numerous international awards.
He also directed" Oliver Twist"( 2005), a story which parallels his own life as a" young boy attempting to triumph over adversity".
He was awarded Best Director for" The Ghost Writer"( 2010) at the 23rd European Film Awards.
He also received Best Screenwriter nomination at the aforementioned awards for" Carnage"( 2011).
In 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to expel Polanski from its membership.
Ruth Platt
Ruth Platt is a British actress, writer and director, who has appeared in" The Pianist"( 2002).
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
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Hanro Smitsman
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Punyakoti
Punyakoti is an unreleased Sanskrit language Indian animation film directed by Ravi Shankar V." Punyakoti" is the first Sanskrit animated movie that was scheduled to release in July 2019.
The movie is crowd funded and crowd sourced.
It is an adaptation of a picture book for children written by Ravishankar V.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar( born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, spelled Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury in Sanskrit; 7 April 192011 December 2012), whose name is often preceded by the title Pandit( Master) and" Sitar maestro", was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music.
He was the best- known proponent of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout the world.
Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999.
Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin family in India, and spent his youth as dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar.
He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan.
After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the" Apu Trilogy" by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles guitarist George Harrison.
His influence on the latter helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in pop music in the latter half of the 1960s.
Shankar engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra, and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s.
From 1986 to 1992, he served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India.
He continued to perform until the end of his life.

Question: Are director of film The Pianist (2002 Film) and director of film Punyakoti both from the same country?
Answer: no