This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees whose career and identification are associated predominantly with Poland. The list is current as of the 98th Academy Awards nominations. There were fifteen Academy Awards given to Polish filmmakers for their work, including one Honorary Academy Award, one Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, and one Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The cinematographer Janusz Kamià Âski is the most awarded Polish filmmaker. The director Roman Polaà Âski won an Oscar and was nominated four more times (additionally, Knife in the Water, a film directed and written by him, was also nominated). There were thirteen Polish pictures nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
This list focuses on Polish-born filmmakers.