- Invited to join AMPAS in 2005.
- President of the Jury of 25th Warsaw Film Festival-2009 (International Competition).
- Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 8th Beijing International Film Festival in 2018.
- Founder & Director of Transatlantyk Festival, Poland.
- He recorded his first album, Music for the End (1982), for the United States (US) company Flying Fish Records.
- His music has been released by Sony Classical, Decca, Varèse Sarabande, Verve, Epic, Milan, and Savitor Records.
- In addition to his work in films, Kaczmarek was commissioned to write two symphonic and choral pieces for two important national occasions in Poland: Cantata for Freedom (2005) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement, and Oratorio 1956 (2006) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a bloody uprising against totalitarian government in Poznan, Poland.
- In 2005, Kaczmarek received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Finding Neverland, directed by Marc Forster, on which he had worked with music editor Christopher Kennedy, among others.
- Kaczmarek also won the National Board of Review award for Best Score of the Year and was nominated for a Golden Globe and the BAFTA's Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music.
- On 1 July 2015, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for his outstanding artistic accomplishments and for promoting Polish culture abroad.
- In 2007, Kaczmarek began working to set up a film institute in his home country of Poland. Inspired by the Sundance Institute, he intended for the new institute to serve as a European center for the development of new work in film, theater, music and new media. His Instytut Rozbitek (Rozbitek Institute) opened in 2005.
- In the late 1970s, Kaczmarek started working with Jerzy Grotowski and his innovative Theater Laboratory.
- Kaczmarek was a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, European Film Academy and Polish Film Academy.
- He gave concerts in the United States and Europe.
- He wrote scores for more than 70 feature films and documentaries, including Finding Neverland (2004), for which he won an Oscar and a National Board of Review Award.
- He created the Orchestra of the Eighth Day in 1977.
- Studying music from an early age, he graduated with a law degree, specializing in legal theory and philosophy of law, from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (1977).
- In 1992 he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play for his incidental music for 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
- In 2023, he received the Lifetime Achievement Polish Film Award for his contribution to Polish cinema.
- Jan A.P. Kaczmarek was a Polish composer.
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