Pawel Edelman is a Polish cinematographer

Cinematographer

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 who was born in Łódź on 26 June 1958. He was named Best European Cinematographer in 2002

2002 in film

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 at the European Film Awards for his work on The Pianist

The Pianist (2002 film)

The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...

, for which he also won the César Award for Best Cinematography

César Award for Best Cinematography

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. He was nominated for an Academy Award

Academy Award for Best Cinematography

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 and a BAFTA for the same film. He also received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography from the American Society of Cinematographers

American Society of Cinematographers

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 for Ray

Ray (film)

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. His credits include films both inside and outside Poland:

Poland

• Crossed Lines
• Kroll
• Listopad (French co-production)
• Psy
  Psy (film)
  Psy , known in English as Pigs, is a Polish crime thriller directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski. The film was released on November 20, 1992.-Plot:Poland, right after fall of communism, early 90s...
  
  
• Psy II
• Nastasja
  Nastasja
  Nastasja is a Polish/Japanese film released in 1994, directed by Andrzej Wajda.The film is an adaptation on the last chapter of Fyodor Dostoyevski's novel The Idiot, in which Prince Mishkin and Rogozin return to the past in a conversation over the dead body of Nastasja...
  
  (Japanese co-production)
• Bitter-Sweet
• Taranthriller
• Love Stories
  Love Stories
  Love Stories is a 1997 Polish film about four men with unresolved romances. Jerzy Stuhr plays all four characters and wrote and directed the film.The film is dedicated to Krzysztof Kieślowski, who gave Stuhr important roles in his films.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Happy New York
• House Chronicles
• Demons of War by Goya
• Father's Right
• Pan Tadeusz
  Pan Tadeusz (film)
  Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania is a 1999 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the eponymous epic poem by Polish poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz . In his film, Andrzej Wajda weaves the tangled passions of men and women into a handsome, expansive tapestry of...
  
  (French co-production)
• Big Animal
  Big Animal
  Big Animal is a 2000 Polish film directed by Jerzy Stuhr from a screenplay by Krzysztof Kieslowski, based on a short story by Kazimierz Orłoś.-Plot:...
  
  
• Reich
• Edges of the Lord
  Edges of the Lord
  Edges of the Lord is a 2001 film set in Poland during World War II that depicts a Jewish boy who is hidden from the occupying Germans by posing as the Catholic nephew of a local farmer , with the aid of a compassionate priest .-Cast:*Haley Joel Osment ... Romek*Willem Dafoe ... Priest*Richard...
  
  (U.S. co-production)
• The Pianist
  The Pianist (2002 film)
  The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
  
   (French, German, and British co-production)
• The Revenge
  The Revenge (film)
  The Revenge is the English title for Zemsta, a film released in 2002, directed by Andrzej Wajda. This film is an adaptation of a perennially popular stage farce of the same name by the Polish dramatist and poet Aleksander Fredro....
  
  
• Hamlet
• Katyń
  Katyn (film)
  Katyń is a 2007 Polish film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk...
  
  
• Sweet Rush
  Sweet Rush (film)
  Sweet Rush is a 2009 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda.- Cast :* Krystyna Janda – Marta / Actress* Paweł Szajda – Boguś K.* Jan Englert – Doctor* Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak – Friend* Julia Pietrucha – Halinka...
  
  

United States and outside Poland

• The Poison Tasters
  The Poison Tasters
  The Poison Tasters is a 1995 American drama film directed by Ulrik Theer. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Karolina A. Rosinska - Ana* Tom V...
  
  
• L'aube à l'envers
  L'aube à l'envers
  L'aube à l'envers is a 1995 French short film directed by Sophie Marceau. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  (French short film)
• Ray
  Ray (film)
  Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.Charles was set to...
  
  
• Oliver Twist
  Oliver Twist (2005 film)
  Oliver Twist is a 2005 British drama film directed by Roman Polanski. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood is based on the 1838 novel of the same title by Charles Dickens....
  
   (British, Czech, French and Italian production)
• All the King's Men
  All the King's Men (2006 film)
  All the King's Men is a 2006 film adaptation of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren. It was directed by Steven Zaillian, who also produced and scripted....
  
   (German co-production)
• The Life Before Her Eyes
• New York, I Love You
  New York, I Love You
  New York, I Love You is a 2009 romance film released in the United States on October 16, 2009. From the producer of Paris, je t'aime, it stars an ensemble cast, among them Bradley Cooper, Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Anton Yelchin, Hayden Christensen, Orlando Bloom, Irrfan Khan, Rachel Bilson,...
  
  (segment directed by Brett Ratner
  Brett Ratner
  Brett Ratner is an American film director, film producer and music video director. He is best known for directing the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tower Heist. He was also a producer on the Fox drama series, Prison Break.- Early life :Ratner was...
  
  ) (French co-production)
• The New Tenants
  The New Tenants
  The New Tenants is a 21-minute Danish live action short film directed by Joachim Back, written by Anders Thomas Jensen and adapted by David Rakoff...
  
  (Danish co-production, short film)
• The Ghost Writer (French, German and British production)

External links

• Pawel Edelman webpage