 He worked with noted Polish director, Krzysztof Kieślowski in many films, starting with "Dekalog" (1988) and culminating with Kieślowski's final film, "" (1994), for which Sobociński won his first award the Silver Frog Award at Camerimage, Poland's International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography and an Oscar nomination also in 1994.In the following year, he won the Golden Frog award for "The Seventh Room" and, in 1997, received a Golden Frog nomination for "Marvin’s Room".His career hit a peak in the mid-1990s when he was asked by Ron Howard to work on the film "Ransom" starring Mel Gibson and Rene Russo.