Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski is a French-Polish director. He has been nominated for several Academy Awards, won the César Award in France, and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. While he is a celebrated filmmaker, his reputation as an artist has more recently been overshadowed by his arrest for drugging and raping a minor.
Polanski was born in Paris to a Jewish father and a Russian Roman Catholic mother. After a brief time in Paris, the Polanskis moved to Krakow in Poland, where they were...