49-548: Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski ( Polish: [ˈpavɛw alɛˈksandɛr pavliˈkɔfskʲi] ; born 15 September 1957) is a Polish filmmaker. He garnered early praise for a string of documentaries in the 1990s and for his award-winning feature films of the 2000s, Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of Love (2004). His success continued into the 2010s with Ida (2013), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , and Cold War (2018), for which Pawlikowski won
98-516: A ''designated holding area'' for undocumented immigrants. Tanya and Artyom are placed in a shabby apartment building that overlooks an abandoned amusement park. The area is patrolled by officers who make sure that refugees don't escape. Tanya, who illustrated children's books in Russia, carries a framed illustration she made amongst her belongings. Tanya is propositioned by Les, an Internet pornographer, to participate in webcam porn videos. Though Tanya
147-605: A critically acclaimed second career on stage, in which she has received four nominations for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress, including one win, for her performance of Arkadina in a London West End production of Anton Chekhov 's The Seagull . She reprised the role in New York in September 2008. In summer 2014, Scott Thomas returned to London's West End to star as Emma in Harold Pinter 's Betrayal at
196-578: A department store. She began training to become a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama , enrolling on a BEd in Speech and Drama. During her time at the school, she requested to switch degree courses to acting but was refused. After a year at Central, speaking French fluently, she decided to move to Paris to work as an au pair, and studied acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre ( ENSATT ). When she
245-544: A fourth season should be released by the end of December 2024. In January 2024, it was renewed for a fifth series. In June 2022, Thomas began filming her directorial debut, North Star , starring Scarlett Johansson , Sienna Miller , Emily Beecham and Freida Pinto . Scott Thomas brought up her children in Paris, and has said she sometimes considers herself more French than British. During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show on 2 December 2022, Scott Thomas said she
294-508: A grim corner of contemporary reality, [the film] is far from depressing. Mr. Pawlikowski, most of whose previous films have been documentaries, balances the harsh naturalism his story demands with an almost romantic sense of visual beauty." He added "the thoughtful stylishness of Mr. Pawlikowski's direction doesn't cheapen or aestheticize Tanya's plight but rather extends to her the dignity and compassion that only art can confer". Scott also singled out Paddy Considine's performance, saying it "gives
343-410: A group of tough kids who drink, smoke, and engage in petty theft. One day, Les goes to see Tanya at her flat and pays her for the first video attempt, promising more money if she returns and completes the video. Alfie hears through the door and inquires about what business Les is seeking with Tanya, but she denies any involvement. Later, Alfie angrily walks into Les' home and interrupts a webcam video he
392-582: A pilot in the Royal Navy 's Fleet Air Arm , who died in a flying accident when Kristin was aged five. She has three siblings, including Serena Scott Thomas . She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod ), the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World War II) and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott . The childhood home of Scott Thomas
441-459: A relationship with Alfie. Alfie reveals how he came to end up in Stonehaven; after doing prison time for a fight he got into, he felt he had nothing else to go back to, saying the town is full of "fuckups" like him. Tanya gets choked up when she admits that she's been married and divorced twice previously, crying that it is bad for her and Artyom, but Alfie comforts her. Artyom soon falls in with
490-689: A sink estate in Yorkshire, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Ian Duncan . In 2000 he wrote and directed Last Resort starring Dina Korzun and Paddy Considine , which won a BAFTA, the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at Edinburgh and many other awards. In 2004 he wrote and directed My Summer of Love starring Emily Blunt and Natalie Press , which won a BAFTA, the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film and many other awards. In 2006, he filmed about 60% of his adaptation of Magnus Mills' The Restraint of Beasts when
539-762: A small English seaside town when her British fiancé does not show up as planned. The film had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 22 August 2000 and played at various film festivals to critical acclaim. Pawlikowski won a BAFTA Award , the Carl Foreman Award for Most Promising Newcomer in British Film ; and the FIRESCI Prize at the London Film Festival . Tanya,
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#1732800876739588-504: A truck for Tanya and Artyom that will take them to the airport. After embracing, Tanya and Alfie say they'll remember each other. Tanya leaves Alfie with the framed illustration as a gift. Margate , in the Thanet District of Kent , doubled as the fictional seaside town of Stonehaven, and was the setting for the majority of the film. The film was met with widespread critical acclaim. On review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes ,
637-457: A young Russian woman, arrives with her 10-year-old son Artyom in London, expecting to be met by her fiancé Mark. When he does not arrive, Tanya panics and claims political asylum , resulting in her and her son being confined to the small seaside town of Stonehaven while their claim is considered, a process she is told could take up to a year. Stonehaven, a former resort town, has been converted into
686-465: Is filming, destroying his camera and the furniture. Alfie comes to get Tanya and Artyom, saying he is going to get them out of Stonehaven. The three of them hide in a small, abandoned sailboat on the beach; when the water rises, they sail away and manage to evade the security guards. Alfie, as well as Artyom, want Tanya to stay in England, but she reasons she has to go back to start a new life. Alfie finds
735-502: Is initially wary of the idea, she decides to take up Les' offer when she is desperate for money. As she dresses up in one of the costumes Les gives her and crawls onto the bed, she starts crying and cannot follow through with the video, ultimately leaving. She finds other ways of making money, such as donating blood. Using the holding area's one operating payphone, she is finally able to make contact with Mark, but he breaks up with her. Tanya attempts to withdraw her claim for asylum and tells
784-652: The Evening Standard British Film Award for the most promising newcomer. This was followed by roles opposite Hugh Grant in Bitter Moon and Four Weddings and a Funeral where she won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress. In 1994, she starred in the Romanian–French film An Unforgettable Summer , in which she played Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy. Rather than learn Romanian for the part, she read her lines phonetically. She had all
833-541: The Baden-Baden casino in his quest to raise money to buy a secondhand Mercedes. Pawlikowski's most original and formally successful film was Serbian Epics (1992), made at the height of the Bosnian War. The oblique, ironic, imagistic, at times almost hypnotic study of epic Serbian poetry, with exclusive footage of Radovan Karadžić and General Ratko Mladić , aroused a storm of controversy and incomprehension at
882-687: The Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director , while the film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Pawlikowski was born in Warsaw , Poland , to a father who was a doctor and a mother who started as a ballet dancer and later became an English literature professor at the University of Warsaw . In his late teens, he learned that his paternal grandmother
931-530: The Comedy Theatre . The revival was directed by Ian Rickson . Her husband was played by Ben Miles and the love triangle was completed by Douglas Henshall . In January 2013, she starred in another Pinter play, Old Times , again directed by Ian Rickson. In 2014, she appeared at The Old Vic in the title role of Sophocles 's Electra . Scott Thomas has also acted in French films. In 2006, she played
980-647: The European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel 's I've Loved You So Long (2008). Her other films include Leaving (2009), Love Crime (2010), Sarah's Key (2010), Nowhere Boy (2010), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), Darkest Hour (2017), and Tomb Raider (2018). She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in
1029-639: The National Film and Television School , won the Sutherland Prize for the Best First Film, for Ilo Ilo . Ida won the 2015 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film on 23 February 2015, the first Polish film to do so. In the same year, he was a member of the jury headed by Alfonso Cuarón at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival . In 2017, Pawlikowski adapted Emmanuel Carrère 's biographical novel Limonov (2011), based on
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#17328008767391078-934: The Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull . She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996). Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988). Her work includes Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), The Valet (2006), and Tell No One (2007). She won
1127-615: The 2003 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. She was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005. Scott Thomas was born in Redruth , Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas,
1176-615: The BBC television remake of Alan Bennett 's monologue series, Talking Heads , playing the role of Celia in the episode "Hand of God". In April 2022, Scott Thomas starred in the British spy thriller series, Slow Horses , based on the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron . She appeared as Diana Taverner, Deputy Director General of MI5. Premiered on Apple TV+, there are a further two series with showrunner Will Smith stating that
1225-843: The Catholic Church in Great Britain to be easier to grow in faith in than that in Poland. Pawlikowski was a Creative Arts Fellow at Oxford Brookes University from 2004 to 2007. He teaches film direction and screenwriting at the National Film School in the UK and the Wajda Film School in Warsaw. In addition to his native Polish, he speaks six languages including German and Russian. Pawlikowski's first wife, who
1274-633: The United Kingdom on 16 March 2001 in 7 theatres and grossed £19,478 ($ 27,758). Overall, it grossed $ 79,238 worldwide. Kristin Scott Thomas Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas DBE (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and
1323-648: The Winter Chill (2013), and in Nicolas Winding Refn 's Only God Forgives , which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival . In 2014, she voiced the narration of Kay Summersby , General Eisenhower's driver, in the documentary series D-Day Sacrifice . She appeared in Israel Horovitz 's My Old Lady (2014) and Suite Française , the 2015 film adaptation of Irène Némirovsky 's World War II novel directed by Saul Dibb . In 2017 she
1372-510: The council officers she wants to go back to Russia, but she is told the review of her petition could still take months. Alfie, a former boxer who manages the local amusement arcade, takes sympathy in Tanya's plight, helping her with using the phone line and bringing necessities for her and Artyom. Artyom bonds with Alfie and the two repaint the drab flat he shares with his mother. Though Tanya does not want to get her heart broken again, she enters into
1421-602: The ending, noting "how it concludes its emotional journey without pretending the underlying story is over". Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described the film as "Spare yet unsparing, emotionally affecting without even a hint of excess, it’s an honest, haunting look at the connection between a pair of lonely people who wonder where they belong." The film opened in the United States on 23 February 2001 in 14 theatres and grossed $ 37,283. It opened in
1470-557: The film Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), and as a love interest of George Duroy (played by Robert Pattinson ) in the 2012 film Bel Ami , based on the 1885 Maupassant novel . She was also seen in The Woman in the Fifth (2011), a film adaption of Douglas Kennedy 's novel of the same name, Lasse Hallström 's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), Ralph Fiennes 's The Invisible Woman (2013), Philippe Claudel 's Before
1519-408: The film a comic spark and a glow of warmth. Alfie's casual cynicism and underlying decency slowly break down Tanya's defenses, and the audience's, too." Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four, and commented, "Dina Korzun's performance holds our interest because she bases every scene on the fact that her character is a stranger in a strange land with no money and a son to protect." He commended
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1568-432: The film has an approval rating of 94% based on 70 critics' reviews. The site's consensus reads, "Critics are raving about Last Resort , saying it's a convincing, touching tale. Particularly impressive is the lack of script during the film's shoot." On Metacritic , the film has a score of 80 based on 21 reviews. A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote though the story "dwells on sorrowful circumstances and illuminates
1617-500: The life of Eduard Limonov , into a screenplay. Pawlikowski planned to direct the film adaptation but revealed in 2020 that he lost interest in the character and abandoned plans to direct. His most recent film, Cold War earned him the Best Director Award at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival . It also won five awards at the 2018 European Film Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress Awards. In 2019, he
1666-487: The lines translated into French, which she speaks fluently, so she knew what she was saying. In an interview for Gloucester Citizen on 22 March 2015, she cited An Unforgettable Summer as one of the films that she is most proud of alongside The English Patient and Only God Forgives . 1996 saw the release of the film with her most famous role as Katharine Clifton, The English Patient , which gained her Golden Globe and Oscar nominations as well as critical acclaim. This
1715-575: The project was halted—his wife had fallen gravely ill and he left to care for her and their children. In 2011, he wrote and directed a film loosely adapted from Douglas Kennedy's novel The Woman in the Fifth , starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas . On 19 October 2013, his film Ida (starring Agata Kulesza ) won the Best Film Award at the London Film Festival , on the same night that Anthony Chen , one of his students at
1764-582: The role of Hélène, in French, in Ne le dis à personne ( Tell No One ), by French director Guillaume Canet . In 2008, Scott Thomas received many accolades for her performance in Il y a longtemps que je t'aime ( I've Loved You So Long ), including BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. In 2009 she played the role of a wife who leaves her husband for another man in Leaving . In Sarah's Key (2010) –
1813-535: The story of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup – Scott Thomas starred as an American journalist in Paris who discovers that the flat her husband is renovating for them was once the home of an evicted Jewish family. Other roles include Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond , mother of Henry VIII 's second wife Anne , in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), the role of a fashion magazine creator and editor in
1862-614: The time, but has now secured it something of a cult status. The absurdist Tripping with Zhirinovsky , a surreal boat journey down the Volga with controversial Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky , won Pawlikowski the Grierson Award for the Best British Documentary in 1995. Pawlikowski's transition to fiction occurred in 1998 with a small 50-minute hybrid film Twockers , a lyrical and gritty love story set on
1911-518: The world. From Moscow to Pietushki was a poetic journey into the world of the Russian cult writer Venedikt Erofeev , for which he won an Emmy , an RTS award, a Prix Italia and other awards. The multi-award-winning Dostoevsky's Travels was a tragi-comic road movie in which a St Petersburg tram driver and the only living descendant of Fyodor Dostoevsky , travels rough around Western Europe haunting high-minded humanists, aristocrats, monarchists and
1960-578: Was Jewish and had been murdered in Auschwitz . At the age of 14, he left Poland with his mother for London. What he thought was a holiday turned out to be a permanent exile. A year later he moved to Germany, before finally settling in Britain in 1977. He studied literature and philosophy at Oxford University . In the late 1980s and 1990s, Pawlikowski was best known for his documentaries, whose blend of lyricism and irony won him many fans and awards around
2009-458: Was 25, she was cast as Mary Sharon in the film Under the Cherry Moon (1986). Kristin Scott Thomas's acting career garnered early attention when she was cast as Mary Sharon in Under the Cherry Moon , released in 1986, the first but widely panned film directed by and starring the already well-known musical artist, Prince . Her breakthrough role was playing Brenda Last in an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust (1988), winning her
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2058-633: Was Russian, developed a serious illness in 2006 and died several months later. They have a son and a daughter. After his children left for university, Pawlikowski moved to Paris, and later relocated to Warsaw, where he lives close to his childhood home. At the end of 2017, he married Polish model and actress Małgosia Bela . Television 1987 Stasys Film - Academy Awards British Academy Film Awards Golden Globe Awards European Film Awards Polish Film Awards British Independent Film Awards Film festivals and other award ceremonies Critics' Circle Other distinctions Pawlikowski
2107-495: Was announced as one of the members of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival . In October 2022, reports emerged that Pawlikowski's next film, under the working title The Island , was scheduled to begin filming in 2023. The film is inspired by true events and cast Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara as an American couple in the 1930s, who leave behind civilization to live on a deserted island. In May 2023, production for The Island
2156-598: Was followed by a brief period working in Hollywood on films such as The Horse Whisperer with Robert Redford and Random Hearts with Harrison Ford. However, growing disillusioned with Hollywood, she took a year off to give birth to her third child. She returned to the stage in 2003 when she played the title role in a French theatre production of Racine 's Bérénice , and appeared on-screen as Lady Sylvia McCordle in Robert Altman's Gosford Park . This started
2205-451: Was halted, weeks before filming was set to begin, as a result of the impending 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike . In December 2023, cinematographer Łukasz Żal stated that the project was unlikely to ever be made. In February 2024, Mara stated that herself, Phoenix, and Pawlikowski are still committed to make the film, but was unsure of when it may be filmed. Pawlikowski grew up a Catholic and considers himself one up to this day, but says that he finds
2254-752: Was in Trent , near Sherborne , Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens ), who also died in a flying accident whilst flying a Phantom FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off the North coast of Cornwall in January 1972. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne , Dorset, both independent schools. On leaving school in 1978, she moved to Hampstead , London, and worked in
2303-402: Was living in London. From 1987 until 2005, she was married to French obstetrician François Olivennes , with whom she has three children. In September 2024, Scott Thomas married John Micklethwait , the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News , after a five-year romance. In 2009, Scott Thomas signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski , calling for his release after Polanski
2352-406: Was made Honorary Associate of London Film School . In 2019, he was awarded the title of an honorary citizen of Warsaw . Last Resort (2000 film) Last Resort is a British drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski in his feature film debut, and starring Dina Korzun , Artyom Strelnikov, and Paddy Considine . The film concerns a Russian immigrant and her son who become stranded in
2401-634: Was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 71st British Academy Film Awards for portraying Clementine Churchill in Joe Wright 's Darkest Hour . In May 2017, it was reported that Scott Thomas had signed on to star as BMW heiress Susanne Klatten in the thriller Paramour , directed by Alexandra-Therese Keining . In 2020, Scott Thomas played Mrs. Danvers in director Ben Wheatley 's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier 's Gothic romance Rebecca , with Armie Hammer and Lily James . Also that year, she appeared in
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