Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski ( ; born 15 September 1957 ) is a Polish filmmaker , who has lived and worked most of his life in the United Kingdom . He garnered much acclaim for a string of award-winning documentaries in the 1990s and for his feature films '' Last Resort '' and '' My Summer of Love '' , both of which won a BAFTA and many other European awards . His film '' Ida '' won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . At the 2018 Cannes Film Festival , Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize for his 2018 film '' Cold War '' , a film which also earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film
2018 Cannes Film Festival
2018 Cannes Film Festival
Paweł Pawlikowski