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Polish Composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Oscar Winner for ‘Finding Neverland,’ Dies at 71
Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, who won a 2004 Oscar for 'Finding Neverland,' died Tuesday in Krakow. He was 71.
Performing on piano, synths, percussion and the zither-like fidola, he was a five-time winner of Europe’s Jazz Forum magazine poll during this period. He won a Drama Desk Award for his music for the New York Shakespeare Festival’s 1992 off-Broadway revival of “Tis Pity She’s a Whore” with Val Kilmer and Jeanne Tripplehorn. He began a long collaboration with Polish director Agnieszka Holland in 1995 with “Total Eclipse,” continuing with “Washington Square,” “The Third Miracle,” and for television, “Shot in the Heart” and “A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story.” “I loved her working style,” Kaczmarek told an interviewer.
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