Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

Film composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek was active in his native Poland, around Europe, and in the U.S., where he earned an Academy Award for his score for the Peter Pan biopic Finding Neverland. He also scored other major American films, including Washington Square (1997) and Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009). Kaczmarek lived in Los Angeles but maintained strong connections to Poland, where he composed concert and operatic works and set up a film music institute. He remained active into the 2020s and won several other major awards before he died on May 21, 2024, in Kraków.