Sensational news! A Hungarian among the Oscars 2024 winners

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James Price (l), who won the Academy Award for Best Production Design with set designer Zsuzsa Mihalek, and British scenic designer Shona Heath (r) receive their awards at the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 10, 2024. The three were recognised for their work in the making of Poor Thingss, a film based on the novel by Scottish author Alasdair Gray, directed by Jorge Lanthimos and shot in Hungary. Photo: MTI/EPA/Caroline Brehman

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Hungary’s Zsuzsa Mihalek has won the 2024 Academy Award (Oscars) for Production Design.

Mihalek won the acknowledgement for set decoration, along with James Price and Shona Heath for production design, for their work on director Yorgos Lanthimos’s feature Poor Things.

Poor Things, filmed at Origo Studios in Budapest, won four Oscars at the awards ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday: in addition to the nod for production design, it won the Oscar for Best Actress, Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

As we wrote earlier, this year, Mihalek won the British Film Prize, the BAFTA, for her work on Poor Things, but was not in London to receive the award. She was not there in Los Angeles for the Oscars either. Price and Heath mentioned that they missed “Zsuzsi” not being there.

 

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