Agnieszka Holland
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Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, and emigrated to France shortly before the 1981 imposition of the martial law in Poland.
Holland is best known for her films Europa Europa (1990), for which she received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, and The Secret Garden (1993), as well as Angry Harvest and the Holocaust drama In Darkness, both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2017 she received Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) for her film Spoor at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2020, she was elected President of the European Film Academy.
See also
- List of female film and television directors
- List of LGBT-related films directed by women
- Cinema of Poland
- List of Poles
- List of Polish Academy Award winners and nominees