Gyula Pados (; born 2 April 1969) is a Hungarian cinematographer.

Life and career

Pados was born in Budapest, Hungary. In 1990, he attended the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest as a cinematographer. He worked as a camera assistant to

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. As a university student, he and his friends founded a company, which is still the third largest Hungarian commercial film studio. His diploma work was cinematographing and directing ''Hajnal'', for which he was awarded several prizes. Then he cinematographed ''The dance''. Later, he made ''Angyal utca'' with a completely Hungarian team. In

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, he shot the short movie ''Meter Running'', written by Charles Martin and directed by David Moore. After getting his degree in 1996, he returned to England and shot ''The Star'' and ''The Sin Eater''. In 2000, he was the cinematographer of '' Hotel Splendide'', which was also awarded. His last movie in England was '' The Heart of Me''. He came back to Hungary in 2003, filming '' Kontroll'', which made him famous also in Hungary. After this movie, he was the cinematographer of the movie '' Fateless'' in 2005. His newest movie is ''

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Awards

In 1991 he got the first success with the movie ''Hajnal'' ('Dawn'): he won the Grand Prix of the Oberhausen Film Festival, the Wim Wenders Prize at the Munich Film Festival, the Grand Prix of the Potsdam Film Festival and the Main Prize of the Hungarian Film Festival. In 1995 he was awarded for ''Angyal utca'' ('Angel Street') at the Munich Film Festival. In 1998 he was awarded Kodak Prize for ''The Sin Eater'' at the

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. He was nominated Best Cinematographer at the

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for '' Fateless'' in 2005. He was awarded best cinematographer at the Sitges Film Festival for '' Hotel Splendide'' in 2000, at the Copenhagen International Film Festival and the Silver Camera Prize at the Brothers Manaki International Film Festival for '' Kontroll'' in 2003 and at

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for '' The Duchess'' in 2008.

Filmography

Short films

References

External links

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Gyula Pados at ''cinematographers.nl''
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