Bence Gyöngyössy

Bence Gyöngyössy (born 26 November 1963 in Budapest) Balázs Béla-díj winning Hungarian film producer, film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and actor.

Bence Gyöngyössy
Born (1963-11-26) 26 November 1963
Budapest
NationalityHungarian
Alma materMadách Imre Gimnázium (1978 –1980)

American High School's Munich International School Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1988–1994)

Munich Film and Television Academy (HFF)
Occupation(s)film producer, film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, actor
Parents
  • Imre Gyöngyössy (father)
  • Katalin Petényi (mother)
AwardsMay Ophüls Prize nomination, Germany

Golden Zenit Award for Best First Feature Film, Montreal World Film Festival (1997)

Academy Award (Oscar), (Hungarian nomination) – Best Foreign Language Film category

International Film Festival, Tokyo

Alexandria International Film Festival – Special Jury Prize

Balázs Béla-díj (2019)
The native form of this personal name is Gyöngyössy Bence. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Career

His parents were Imre Gyöngyössy (1930–1994), Balázs Béla-díj winning film director, poet[1] and Katalin Petényi (1941 –), art historian, film director, screenwriter and editor. He began his secondary school education at the Madách Imre Gimnázium in Budapest, where he attended from 1978 to 1980. In 1980 he moved with his parents to Munich, where he lived until 1997. He graduated from the American High School's Geneva University's international baccalaureate of Munich International School.

From 1983 to 1988, he was a student of communication drama at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 1988 to 1994 he studied directing at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF).[2] Since 1983, he has been active in various film and television productions on all five continents. Over the years he has gained experience not only as a film director and scriptwriter, but also as a production manager, film producer and cinematographer.[2] From 1997 to 2001 he was Programme Director and Member of the Board of RTL Klub, and from 2008 to 2009 he was Programme Director and Member of the Board of TV2. He currently works as a film writer, director and producer in Budapest.[3]

Filmography

Producer
  • Száműzöttek (1991)
  • Halál sekély vízben (1994)
  • Ámbár tanár úr (1998)[3]
  • Barátok közt – tv sorozat (1998–2018)[4]
  • Hippolyt (1999)
  • Meseautó (2000)
  • Hal a tortán – tv sorozat (2008)[4]
  • Hitvallók és ügynökök (2009)
  • Utolsó rapszódia (2011)

Director
  • Idézet (1988)
  • Az utolsó Volga német zenetanár (1989)
  • A feltámadás lányai (1990)
  • Magány (1992)
  • Romani Kris – Cigánytörvény (1997)[2]
  • Egy szoknya, egy nadrág (2005)
  • Egy bolond százat csinál (2006)
  • Papírkutyák (2008)
  • Utolsó rapszódia (2011)
  • A tanyagondnok (2014)
  • Janus (2015)
  • A nemzet építésze (2015)
  • Olasz – magyar örökség (2015)
  • Cseppben az élet (2019)[5]
  • A feltaláló (2020)[1]

Cinematographer
  • Kulák volt az apám (2014)[5]
  • Örökség a jövőnek – Olasz-magyar kapcsolatok (2015)[5]

Screenwriter
  • Havasi selyemfiú (1978)[3]
  • Romani Kris – Cigánytörvény (1997)[2]
  • Papírkutyák (2008)
  • Utolsó rapszódia (2011)
  • Janus (2015)
  • A Balaton hullámain[5]

Actor

Awards

Bibliography

MTI Who's Who 2009. Ed. Péter Hermann. Budapest: MTI. 2008. ISBN 978-963-1787-283

References
  1. "Gyöngyössy Bence és Kabay Barna a Béres Józsefről szóló, A feltaláló című filmről". Magyar Kurír (in Hungarian). Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  2. "Filmkultúra: Arcok: Gyöngyössy Bence". www.filmkultura.hu. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  3. "Gyöngyössy Bence". Nemzeti Filmintézet. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  4. "Bence Gyöngyössy". IMDb. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  5. "Gyöngyössy Bence". PORT.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  6. AWARDS OF THE WORLD FILM FESTIVAL https://web.archive.org/web/20130120052156/http://www.ffm-montreal.org/en_palm.html
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