Poles Among This Year’s OSCAR Nominees

This year’s nominees for the Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences include three artists from Poland. They are S³awomir Idziak, director of photography on Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, and director S³awomir Fabicki and cinematographer Bogumi³ Godfrejow for their film Mêska Sprawa / A Man Thing/, produced by the National Film, Television & Theatre School in £ódz /Poland/ A Man Thing has already won a series of awards at a number of international festivals, including a grand prize for drama at the Shorts International Film Festival in New York. Coordinated by the Embassy, the presentation of the film to wider American public in Washington, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago has already begun.
This year’s OSCARS will be handed out at the ceremony on March 24th, 2002.   
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