'' Man of Iron '' won the Palme d'Or at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival . '' The Promised Land '' won the Golden Prize at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival in 1975 . Four of Wajda 's works ( '' The Promised Land '' , '' The Maids of Wilko '' , '' Man of Iron '' , and '' Katyń ) '' have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . In 2000 , Wajda received an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
1981 Cannes Film Festival
1981 Cannes Film Festival
Andrzej Wajda