Polish Film Awards
The Polish Film Award ( pl.: Polskie Nagrody Filmowe - Eagles of ) is the national film award in Poland. He was first awarded in 1999 on the initiative of Niezależna fundacja Filmowa (NFF ) and the Krajowa Izba Producentów Audiowizualnych ( KIPA ). Since then counted by the more than 500 members Polska Akademia Filmowa, the Polish Film Academy, every year in late February and early March will award the best Polish film productions and film-makers of the past year in Warsaw Cinema.
A film qualifies in the award the previous year, when he was shown between January 1 and December 31, at least seven days in a public cinema for a fee. The productions have been realized by a Polish film crew and must be specified as a production or co-production country, Poland. Winners will be selected by a qualified panel of experts consisting of Polish filmmakers and with a stylized golden eagle statuette, the so-called Orzel (German: Adler ), excellent. The storage and transport of the envelope to announce the winners, since 2005 the responsibility of the notaries of the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers ( PwC), hold the selbige task even with the award of the American Academy Film Awards.
The last award of the Polish Film Awards took place on March 4, 2013 at the National Theatre in Warsaw and was hosted by the Polish actor Arkadiusz Janiczek. As Best Film, the gambling in the Second World War thriller Obława Marcin Krzyształowicz prevailed, who had received ten nominations in advance and beyond three other " eagle " (camera, costumes, sound) received. The film is a Polish partisans (played by Marcin Dorociński ) at the center, which is faced with German soldiers, treacherous countrymen and his own past.
Categories and Records
Originally the Polish Film Prize was awarded in twelve categories, topical winners will be recognized annually in 18 different categories - in a category foreign ( European ) film productions are excellent and separately a public and a special prize. The number of nominations will vary to some extent depending on the category. Were mostly awarded three nominations in each category at the award ceremony in 2013, competed in the categories screenplay, set design, sound four nominees against each other.
The most successful films are Roman Polanski's The Pianist and Borys Lankosz ' Rewers, who arrived at the awards in 2003 and 2010, depending on thirteen nominations and were able to triumph in eight categories. The most award-winning filmmakers is the cinematographer Krzysztof Ptak, who was six-time winner 1999-2010 with a Orzel, while the editor Wanda Zeman 2009, obtaining its tenth nomination set a record. Most successful actors are Kinga Price and Robert Więckiewicz with four acting awards won.
Former categories:
- Best Film Producer ( Najlepszy producent, 1999-2001)
- Special Price ( Nagroda specjalna, 2001-2003)