Winner acceptance speech by Pawel Pawlikowski for Ida, in the Film not in the English Language category.
Pawel Pawlikowski: This is fantastic. This award, I once won a BAFTA for the best newcomer and then one for the best British film and now for the best foreigner, so I think we should just skip the formalities and give me a lifetime global achievement award. So I would like to thank all these people, the three producers, well, three and a half. And my co‑writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz, this is for Piotr Dzieciol, Eric Abraham Ewa Puszczynska and Christian Husum, and all the collaborators in Poland whose surnames are so long that I would run out of time. But I especially would like to thank the guy who was nominated for best photography, Lukasz Zal. It was his first film and he did a fantastic job, so thank you very much and I would also like to dedicate it very quickly to Chris Collins who was a wonderful British producer who died recently. He gave me a and a lot of film makers who are very eccentric and difficult to finance and to handle, he gave us a lot of encouragement and he was the most noble and most decent guy I have met in the film industry, so Chris I am missing you here. Thank you.
