Gyula Pados
| Gyula Pados | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 April 1969 Budapest, Hungary |
| Occupation |
Cinematographer director |
| Years active | 1991 - present |
Gyula Pados (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˌɟulɒ ˈpɒdoʃ]) (born 2 April 1969) is an award-winning Hungarian cinematographer and director. He is notable about working together with Terence Gross, Lajos Koltai and Nimród Antal in the movies like Fateless, Aline & Wolfe, Evening, Kontroll, Basic Instinct 2 or Predators.
Cinematographic career
In 1990 he attended the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest as a cinematographer. He worked as a camera assistant to Academy Award-winner Vilmos Zsigmond. 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 England, 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 Predators.
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 Locarno International Film Festival. He was nominated Best Cinematographer at the European Film Award 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 Satellite Award for Best Cinematography for The Duchess in 2008.
Filmography
- Hajnal (1991)
- The dance (1991)
- Angyal utca (1995)
- Meter running (1995)
- The star (1996)
- The Sin Eater (1996)
- Biztosítás (1998) short movie
- Hotel Splendide (2000)
- The Heart of Me (2002)
- Kontroll (2003)
- Állítsátok meg Terézanyut! (2004)
- Fateless (2005)
- Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
- Evening (2007)
- The Duchess (2008)
- Predators (2010)
- Metallica Through the Never (2013)
- Million Dollar Arm (2014)
- Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
- Jumanji (2017)