Waldemar Pokromski

Waldemar Pokromski was born in Breslau in 1946. One of his first jobs in Germany was Michael Verhoeven's KILLING CARS, starring Jürgen Prochnow, and ROSAMUNDE, starring Anica Dobra, Richy Müller and Jürgen Vogel. In 1993, Steven Spielberg hired him for the Polish part of the filming of SCHINDLER'S LIST. He was honoured with the British BAFTA Film Award and a member of the Academy Award®-nominated makeup team of the epic historical drama.

His other international credits include Peter Sehr's OBSESSION, starring Daniel Craig. He worked with Roman Polanski on THE NINTH GATE and THE PIANIST, which won three Academy Awards® in 2003 and numerous other awards. In 1997, Pokromski started his long time cooperation with Michael Haneke, including the films FUNNY GAMES, THE PIANO TEACHER, TIME OF THE WOLF and THE WHITE RIBBON. He also worked with Tom Tykwer several times, for example on THE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR, HEAVEN and PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER.

In 2010, Waldemar Pokromski received the first-ever German Film Award for best makeup, honouring his work on Michael Haneke's Oscar®-winning drama THE WHITE RIBBON. He was nominated for the European Film Award for Bernd Eichinger's THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX, directed by Uli Edel. He was nominated for another German Film Award for his makeup in Fatih Akin's THE CUT.

His other major film credits include the children's film MY MAGICAL FRIEND SAMS, Stephan Ruzowitzky's Academy Award®-winning drama THE COUNTERFEITERS, Andrzej Wajda's Academy Award®-nominated drama KATYN, Sherry Hormann's 3096, Katja von Garnier's WINDSTORM 2 and Oliver Stone's SNOWDEN which was released in 2015.

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