Kornél Mundruczó
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| Born |
3 April 1975 Gödöllő, Hungary |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Occupation | Film and theatre director |
| Years active | 1996-present |
Kornél Mundruczó (born 3 April 1975) is a Hungarian film and theatre director. He has directed 16 short and feature films between 1998 and 2016. His film Johanna was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The production of White God, another of his full-length films, was supported by the Hungarian Film Fund. It won the Prize Un Certain Regard at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was screened in the Spotlight section of Sundance Film Festival in 2015.
On 30 March 2016, it was announced that a psychological drama-thriller titled Deeper is set to be directed by Mundruczó from a script by Max Landis, starring Bradley Cooper and produced by Landis and David S. Goyer.
He earned a diploma from Hungary’s Academy of Film and Drama in 1998 as an actor, then in 2003 as a film and television director. In that same year, he founded Proton Cinema Ltd., dedicated to film production, along with Viktória Petrányi, a constant co-creator and collaborator in his work and writing since the academy.
His first full-length feature This I wish and nothing more won, among other prizes, the award for best first film at the 31st Hungarian Film Week, as well as its Students’ Jury and Directors’ Guild Awards. He directed his short film Afta shortly after leaving school. It went on to win numerous international awards.Pleasant Days, his second feature film, was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno in 2002.
In 2003, he won the Cinéfondation Program’s artistic grant, within the framework of the Cannes International Film Festival, where he developed the screenplay of the film Delta, together with Yvette Bíró in Paris.
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