Wojciech Kilar 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 about the life of Pope John Paul II. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula in 1993 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 1993. In 2003, he won the C�sar Award for Best Film Music written for The Pianist, at France's 28th C�sar Awards Ceremony in 2003, for which he also received a BAFTA nomination. The Pianist featured his "Moving to the Ghetto Oct. 31, 1940" with the other 10 tracks being works by Fr�d�ric Chopin. The music in the movie includes pieces by Beethoven and Bach. 

July 17th, 1932 in Lviv as Wojciech Artur Kilar  /  Died:   Dec 29th, 2013