Ildikó Enyedi Receives Adolph Zukor Award

An invited audience of well-known figures from the film industry celebrated Ildikó Enyedi's career at Origo Film Studio this Thursday. The film director, who recently celebrated her 70th birthday, received the Hungarian Hollywood Council's Adolph Zukor Award in a ceremony, the Council says in a statement.

The highest honor of the civil organization, founded in 2016, has been awarded in recent years to such film personalities as István Szabó, Ferenc Rófusz, Kristóf Deák, Lajos Koltai, Gábor Herendi, Pál Sándor, Gábor Piroch, Róbert Koltai, Gyula Bodrogi and others.

Balázs Bokor, president of the Hungarian Hollywood Council, emphasized that the award was given to the fantastic film director for her outstanding professional work, her film oeuvre, and her contribution to strengthening the international reputation of Hungarian cinema, in keeping with the legacy of Adolph Zukor. He emphasized that the Council was proud that the film 'On Body and Soul' won the Golden Bear, the main prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, and was also nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Ildikó Enyedi's groundbreaking new film, the astonishingly unique 'Silent Friend', debuted at the 82nd Venice Film Festival and has since won numerous awards. Dr. Márta Fekszi Horváth, managing director of Origo Filmstúdió, testified to her personal commitment to Ildikó Enyedi's work and, as host, expressed her delight that the award ceremony could take place at Origo.

During the ceremony, a 15-minute film compilation about Enyedi's professional life, edited by László Hargittai, member of the European Film Academy and head of the Origo post-production studio, was screened as a kind of birthday present.