János Gulyás

film director, cinematographer

Budapest, 2 September 1946 – Budapest, 11 December 2021

Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2011–2021)

Gulyás János was born in 1946 into an intellectual family. Together with his older brother – later his creative partner – Gyula he grew up in the heavy-air Budapest of the 1950s, yet already with the desire to become a creator.

Kossuth Prize

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

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2013

governmental award

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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1988

governmental 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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