Hungarian Winner at the 2022 Academy Awards

Hungarian set designer Zsuzsanna Sipos has been awarded an Academy Award for production design together with Canadian production designer Patrice Vermette for the movie 'Dune', at the 94th ceremony held in Los Angeles this Sunday.

Dune, based on the Frank Herbert classic and directed by Denis Villeneuve, was partly made in Hungary and won six of its ten nominations at this year's Oscars, including the one for 'outstanding sound mixing' given to a team of which one member, American Mac Ruth has been living in Hungary for 25 years now.

Zsuzsanna Sipos thanked the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the award in Hungarian also.

"Dune's success at the Oscars is also a recognition of the outstanding quality of the Hungarian film industry and the work of Hungarian film professionals. This super-production was made mainly in Hungary with the help of hundreds of Hungarian filmmakers, and with major professional accolades and a gross of nearly USD 400 million, it became one of the most successful films of last year. The Hungarian professionals who contributed to this global success deserve huge congratulations," the Director of the National Film Institute in Hungary, Csaba Káel said.