Béla Ternovszky

animated film director

Budapest, 23 May 1943

Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2015–2023)

Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2023–)

According to Giannalberto Bendazzi, the author of a colossal monograph on the world history of animated film, one of the distinctive features of Hungarian animation is that artistic

Kossuth Prize

The highest Hungarian state decoration for the cultivation and preservation of Hungarian culture.

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1987governmental award

Meritorious Artist of the Hungarian People’s Republic

State award for artists who have created outstanding artistic values over a prolonged period in Hungarian national culture and artistic fields (theatre, music, dance, circus, film, visual, photography, applied arts), and who already hold an artistic award granted by the minister responsible for culture. The recipient is entitled to the title “Meritorious Artist of Hungary” (short: “Meritorious Artist”).

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1983governmental award

Balázs Béla Award

The highest state professional award that can be granted by the Minister responsible for culture to filmmakers and television creators.

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