Kate Winslet. meanwhile, is nominated for best actress for her role in Roman Polanski's Carnage.
The city is still home to the Polish Film School, where directors such as Roman Polanski studied.
It will compete against Roman Polanski's The Ghost, which has received eight nods.
Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski have called a US request for his extradition from Switzerland "misleading and incomplete".
Temime, who also represented Roman Polanski, sat at a desk, in front of spectacular windows framed by bright-yellow velour curtains.
Juliet Stevenson appeared in the original 1991 production of the play, while Sigourney Weaver starred in Roman Polanski's 1994 film.
More than fifty years ago, Roman Polanski began to trace the theme of intrusion that has gripped him ever since.
Jury presidents in the festival's seven-decade history have included such figures as Tennessee Williams, Ingrid Bergman, Roman Polanski and Francis Ford Coppola.
The actress, 51, whose films include Roman Polanski's Tess and Paris Texas by Wim Wenders, said she had read Pola's words and wept.
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In 1969, actress Sharon Tate, wife of film director Roman Polanski, was found brutally murdered with four others at their house in Beverly Hills, California.
Tate was married to director Roman Polanski and eight months pregnant.
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In an upset, "Pianist" helmer Roman Polanski won best director.
Interviewed about their irrational love of film are Francis Ford Coppola (who says cinema is "given by the gods"), Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Ryan Gosling, Bertolucci and Cannes director Thierry Fremaux.
As well-versed in his craft as he is, he saw a new gear when going over the script of "Venus in Fur" with director Roman Polanski, who is making a film from the play.
Just six times since 1949 has there been a difference in winners at the two awards, although last year the DGA plumped for Rob Marshall for Chicago while the Oscar went to Roman Polanski for The Pianist.
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Only God Forgives, which reunites Drive star Ryan Gosling and director Nicolas Winding Refn will be in competition this year alongside Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Roman Polanski's Venus In Fur and Inside Llewyn Davis by the Coen brothers.
Film director Roman Polanski had invited him to a snazzy cafe to talk more about adapting his Tony Award-nominated play "Venus in Fur" into a movie when the pair spotted the chic "God of Carnage" playwright Yasmina Reza sitting with a distinguished-looking gentleman.
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