Agnieszka Holland started her film career assisting Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi. She has directed over 30 feature and TV films and miniseries, formatted and directed several episodes of TV series both in the U.S. (e.g.,
The Wire and
House of Cards) and in Poland (
Prime Minister), and written or co- written screenplays for films made by other directors (e.g., Krzysztof Kies´lowski’s
Three Colors trilogy). Her first feature film,
Provincial Actors (1978), is one of the flagship pictures of the “cinema of moral disquiet” and the winner of Cannes’ International Critics Prize. Holland’s work has received prestigious awards and nominations from the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Venice Film Festival, BAFTA, and the Emmy, among others. She is a Chairwoman of the European Film Academy.