‘Cold War’ Director Pawel Pawlikowski Is a First-Time Nominee Who Already Has an Oscar at Home

A version of this story about Pawel Pawlikowski and “Cold War” first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.


On the surface, it doesn’t make sense that the Best Director nomination Pawel Pawlikowski received for “Cold War” is the first actual nomination the Polish director has ever received. After all, the 61-year-old already owns an Oscar, which he received after his 2015 film “Ida” won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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