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Polish composer
Awards Received
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Order of the White Eagle
Medal for Merit to Culture
Louis Delluc Prize
César Award for Best Music Written for a Film
Lux ex Silesia
Polish Academy Award for Best Film Score
Order of Polonia Restituta
Zasłużony Działacz Kultury
Member of, past and present

Polish Academy of Learning

Związek Podhalan

Union of Polish Composers

Polish Film Academy

Wojciech Kilar (Polish: [ˈvɔjtɕɛx ˈkʲilar]; 17 July 1932 – 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and film music composer. His film scores have won many honors including the best score award for the music to Ziemia obiecana (The Promised Land) in 1975, followed by the Prix Louis Delluc in 1980 for the music to Le Roi et l'Oiseau / The King and the Mockingbird, and an award at the Cork International Film Festival for the music to From A Far Country (1981) about the life of Pope John Paul II.

One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992 which received the ASCAP Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Producers in Los Angeles, nominated also for the Saturn Award for Best Music in a science fiction, fantasy, or horror film in San Francisco in 1992. In 2003, he won the César Award for Best Film Music written for The Pianist, at France's 28th César Awards Ceremony in 2003, for which he also received a BAFTA nomination. The film's soundtrack featured his "Moving to the Ghetto Oct. 31, 1940" with the other 10 tracks being works by Frédéric Chopin. The music in the movie includes pieces by Beethoven and Bach.