Polish film ‘Ida’ captures Oscar

(LOS ANGELES) — “Ida,” a black and white film by writer-director Pawel Pawlikowki that details the murder of Poland’s Jews during the Holocaust won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 2014. 

It was Pawlikowki’s first Oscar and the first win for Poland, which has had nine nominations in the category since 1963 out of a total of 46 films that were submitted beginning in 1957.

The film relates the story of a young novitiate, who is about to take her vows as a Roman Catholic nun when she is forced to confront her family’s past and the fact that she is Jewish.

The film won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award and the award for best European film. It lost out to “Leviathan” at the Golden Globe Awards.