{"id":278597,"date":"2017-02-10T11:41:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T10:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funzine.hu\/?p=278597\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T12:06:49","slug":"magyars-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funzine.hu\/en\/2017\/02\/10\/goodapest\/magyars-in-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Magyars in the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dropcap\">As the 89<sup>th<\/sup> Academy Awards9<sup>th<\/sup> Academy Awards9<sup>th<\/sup> Academy Awards will be taking place in Hollywood at the end of this month, we\u2019ve thought it\u2019s high time for us to gather up all the various connections our country\u2019s native sons have with the world of silver screens and film studios. A country of great cinematic traditions (the comedies of the 30s are still huge favorites to this day, while Hungarian art-house directors Tarr, Jancs\u00f3 and Szab\u00f3 have influenced filmmakers throughout the world), the legacy of Hungarian \u00e9migr\u00e9s is \u2013 ironically \u2013 much larger than of those who\u2019ve stayed within the borders of this conflict-torn Central European country. Below, we\u2019ll give you an idea just how imbued the movie-making business was by people of Hungarian stock during the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century! Did you know, for example\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026that, according to a legend, the following sign used to hang above the door of a Hollywood studio, \u201cIt\u2019s not enough to be Hungarian to make films. One must also have talent,\u201d suggesting that once upon a time you couldn\u2019t swing a cat in LA from all the Hungarians. Whether that is true or not, Hungary has definitely made significant contributions to film history.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026that the first Oscar awarded to a Hungarian artist was a reward for the work of William S. Darling (Wilhelm S\u00e1ndorh\u00e1zi), who received the prize for the art design of the movie\u00a0Cavalcade? The Hungarian-born art director won his second award for\u00a0The Song of Bernadette\u00a0in 1943 and his third one for\u00a0Anna and the King of Siam\u00a0in 1946.<\/p>\nAnna and the King of Siam (1946)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2026that one of the most outstanding and frequently quoted pieces in the history of cinema was directed by a Hungarian? In 1942, Michael Curtiz (born Mih\u00e1ly Kert\u00e9sz) won the Academy Award for Best Director, as well as Best Picture, for his wartime romantic drama, Casablanca. During his 36-years long Hollywood career, Curtiz directed 10 different actors to Oscar nominations and made stars of many more, including Errol Flynn and James Cagney.<\/p>\nCasablanca (1942)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;that Adolf Zukor\u00a0was one of the architects of the Hollywood film industry? Born to a Jewish family in rural Hungary, he was just 15 when he lost both of his parents, then subsequently emigrated to America and made his fortune in the fur business. In 1903 he started a venture with Marcus Loew for a new chain of movie theaters. In 1912 he established Famous Players, which evolved over time into Paramount Pictures. Zukor championed vertical integration, organizing production, distribution, and exhibition within a single company, discovered such stars as Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino and Gary Cooper, and thus gave rise to Hollywood as we know it. Zukor is one of the handful of Hungarians who have their own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026that it was a Hungarian who first used Panavision\u2019s revolutionary Panaflex camera on a movie? The film was Sugarland Express, and the cameraman was named Vilmos Zsigmond. The Szeged native went on to win an Academy Award in 1977 for his work on Steven Spielberg\u2019s\u00a0Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The following year he was nominated for his cinematography on Michael Cimino\u2019s\u00a0The Deer Hunter, and was again nominated for the powerful look he brought to Mark Rydell\u2019s\u00a0The River\u00a0(1983). In 2003, Zsigmond was named by the International Cinematographers Guild as one of the ten most influential cinematographers in history.<\/p>\nJack Nicholson and Zsigmond Vilmos (1989)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2026that the first filmmaker to ever be knighted by a British monarch was born in 1893 in the small town of T\u00farkeve, Hungary? Sir Alexander Korda started his career by writing to contemporary Hungarian film magazines, which was soon followed by movie scripts and directorial works, and led to building his own company, Corvin Film. After the failed Communist Revolution of 1919, Korda left Hungary for foreign lands, worked in Vienna, Berlin and Hollywood, and finally settled in London in 1932. His extensive filmography includes An Ideal Husband and The Thief of Baghdad, and together with fellow Hungarians Imre Pressburger, Lajos B\u00edr\u00f3 and Zolt\u00e1n Korda (his brother), he made such gems as Jungle Book, The Spy in Black and The Private Life of Henry VIII.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re even more interested in the influence Hungarians had (and still have) on the world of cinema, be sure to take a field-trip to the Korda Film Park in Etyek, which offers you a peek into the continent\u2019s largest working film studio, as well as providing you with further insight into Hungary\u2019s movie industry through interactive exhibits and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 89th Academy Awards9th Academy Awards9th Academy Awards will be taking place in Hollywood 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