The Pianist (2002) is based on the memoirs of Władysław Szpilman, a Polish-Jewish pianist who survived the Holocaust in Warsaw.The film chronicles Szpilman's life from the outbreak of World War ...

The New York native won back in 2003 for his role as Polish pianist and Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's 2002 war film "The Pianist." ...

Adrien Brody won his first Best Actor Academy Award for his gripping portrayal of Władysław Szpilman in The Pianist. The film is based on Szpilman’s account of living through the Holocaust ...

The star, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman in the Roman Polanski movie, spoke about the experience making the biopic during a new interview ...

In 2003, he received the best actor for his performance in “The Pianist,” in which he played Władysław Szpilman, who was among a handful of Jews to survive the Warsaw ghetto and went on to ...

Adrien Brody plays Władysław Szpilman, a Polish-Jewish pianist. (Image: The Pianist) The movie has a 95% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 96% audience rating from more than 260,000 viewers.

Adrien Brody says preparing for his role in The Pianist took a major toll on him.. For his Oscar-winning role as Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman in the 2002 film, Brody lost 30 pounds on a ...

His first nod landed him the Oscar for his portrayal of real-life Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski’s 2002 drama “The Pianist,” becoming the youngest actor ever to ...

The man is Bauhaus trained architect László Tóth, and he shares an uncanny likeness with fellow survivor Władysław Szpilman. That Adrien Brody links the two is no small accident of casting ...