A Hungarian film was nominated for a Student Oscar award
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Great news. Index.hu reports that, after 22 years, a Hungarian work of art is among the nominees for a Student Academy Award.
The Student Academy Awards, just like the Oscars, is organized by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1973. Impressively, the list of the previous winners includes Spike Lee, Jaco Van Dormael, Cary Fukunaga, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and John Lasseter. They all won the awards for their exam or diploma films, and then began their successful feature film careers.
The Academy has announced this year’s nominations for the Student Academy Awards on Monday, August 1, and among the works, the Hungarian Hajni Kis’s exam film, Beautiful Figure (Szép Alak) can be found. She is the student of the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest and is now up for the award for Best Foreign Narrative.
The nominations of the category include 7 films, which were chosen out of 1749 applications by The Academy and will be further judged by a jury of prestigious film professionals later this month. Their decision naming the 3 best works of art (gold, silver, medal evaluations) will be announced at the Student Academy Awards Week which is held between September 18-24, in Los Angeles.
The 17-minute long Beautiful Figure had its debut at the Hungarian Film Week, then participated at the Friss Hús Budapest Short Film Festival. The film critic of Index gave 9 points out of 10 for the film and highlighted the acting of Brigitta Egyed, who gives a wonderful performance as the cleaning lady.
The director, Hajni Kis is to finish her BA studies at the University of Theatre Arts and Sciences in Budapest, as member of the class led by Bence Miklauzic and András Salamon. Beautiful Figure was her exam film of the second year, but notably, her first year exam work, titled 2nd Floor (2. em.) won 5 awards, including the audience award at CinEast in Luxembourg.