Jirí Menzel

Awards

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Year Result Award Movie
1986 Nominated Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Foreign Language Film
Vesnicko Má Stredisková
1967 Won Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Foreign Language Film
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Year Result Award Movie
1968 Nominated British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture
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Directors Guild of America

Year Result Award Movie
1968 Nominated Directors Guild of America Best Director
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Venice International Film Festival

Year Result Award Movie
1994 Won Venice International Film Festival Gold Medal of the Presidency of the Senate
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

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  • REVIEW | Dite-moi: Jiri Menzel's "I Served the King of England"

    08/26/08 For the last decade American movie audiences have been bludgeoned so mercilessly with poorly and vacuously executed whimsy ("We're drowning in quirk," Michael Hirschorn famously wrote in the September 2007 issue of Atlantic Monthly , and I wholeheartedly agree) that an even partially successful excursion into magical realism like Czech New Waver Jiri Menzel 's " I Served the King of England " comes as nearly a relief, a rare contemporary example of how fanciful, wide-eyed filmmaking can be employed not simply for the sake of ironic condescension or set design window-dressing but for genuine emotional and political exploration.  |  indieWIRE