OSCAR-WINNING Polish film director Andrzej Wajda has died aged 90, the Polish Filmmakers’ Association has confirmed.

    He made more than 40 feature films in a career spanning 60 years.

    Many of his films — including “Kanal,” “Man of Marble,” “Man of Iron” and “Katyn” — were inspired by Poland’s turbulent wartime history.

    In 2000, Wajda was awarded an honorary Oscar for his contribution to world cinema.

    Wajda had been recently taken to the hospital.

    Unconfirmed reports say he died of lung failure.

    Wajda’s last film “Powidoki” (“Afterimage”) tells the life story of the avant-garde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who suffered under the post-war Stalinist government in Poland.

    The director said he wanted to “warn against state intervention in art.”

    The film was recently chosen as Poland’s official entry for the best foreign language film at the 2017 Oscars.

    Four of Wajda’s earlier works had been nominated for that category. “Man of Iron” won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981.

    Wajda once said that “the good Lord gave the director two eyes — one to look into the camera, the other to be alert to everything that is going on around him.”

    (SD-Agencies)