Polish Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Ida' Wins Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film

© REUTERS / Mike BlakeDirector Pawel Pawlikowski holds his Oscar for best foreign language film at the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 22, 2015.
Director Pawel Pawlikowski holds his Oscar for best foreign language film at the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 22, 2015. - Sputnik International
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Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski's "Ida" won the best foreign-language film nomination in Monday's Oscars.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski's "Ida" nabbed the best foreign-language film nomination in Monday's Oscars, beating out Russian filmmaker Andrei Zvyagintsev's "Leviathan."

The 87th Academy Awards ceremony is being held in Los Angeles' Dolby Theater and broadcast live on ABC.

"Ida" became the tenth Academy Award nomination for Poland.

The film is about a young woman, orphaned during the German occupation in World War II and getting ready to become a nun, embarking on a road trip into the Polish countryside to learn the fate of her family.

Called a "compact masterpiece" and an "eerily beautiful road movie," the film has also been said to "penetrate the darkest, thorniest thickets" of Polish history, reckoning with the crimes of Stalinism and the Holocaust.

Ida is sent from her convent home into the world to spend several days with her aunt. The trip brings the young woman into contact with experiences outside her sheltered world.

Other candidates in the Best Foreign Language Film category included Estonian director Zaza Urushadze's "Tangerines," Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako's "Timbuktu" and Argentinian director Damian Szifron's "Wild Tales."

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