Groundbreaking Polish Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda Dies At 90

GWARSAW, Poland (CBS/AP) -- Poland's leading filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, whose career maneuvering between a repressive communist government and an audience yearning for freedom won him international recognition and an honorary Oscar, has died. He was 90.

Wajda had recently been hospitalized and died Sunday night, according to his colleague, film director Jacek Bromski.

Wajda's last movie "Afterimage," a biopic about an avant-garde artist, was recently chosen as Poland's official entry for the 2016 Oscar for best foreign language film.

In 2000, Wajda received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. Four of his films, including "Man of Iron" and Katyn" were nominated for Oscars.

The director trod on ground controlled by communist-era censors with "Man of Marble," which looked at the roots of worker discontent in communist Poland in the 1950s; and "Man of Iron" on the rise of the Solidarity movement.

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