Márta Mészáros
Directing
Born 1931-09-19
Budapest, Hungary
46 credits
Lifetime Achievement Award of the Hungarian Film Academy 1
European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 1
Hazám-díj 1
Prima Primissima Prize 1
Awards
Won 1 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Hungarian Film Academy Award
Lifetime Achievement Award of the Hungarian Film Academy 1 won
- 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Hungarian Film Academy Won
European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 1 won
- 2021 European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Won
Hazám-díj 1 won
- 2018 Hazám-díj Won
Prima Primissima Prize 1 won
- 2013 Prima Primissima Prize Won
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Márta Mészáros (born 19 September 1931) is a Hungarian screenwriter and film director. The daughter of László Mészáros, a sculptor, Mészáros began her career working in documentary film, having made 25 documentary shorts over the span of ten years. Her full-length directorial debut, Eltavozott nap/The Girl (1968), was the first Hungarian film to have been directed by a woman, and won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Valladolid International Film Festival.
Mészáros' work often combines autobiographical details with documentary footage. Prominent themes include characters' denials of their pasts, the consequences of dishonesty, and the problematics of gender. Her films often feature heroines from fragmented families, such as young girls seeking their missing parents (The Girl) or middle-aged women looking to adopt children (Adoption).
Although Mészáros has made over fifteen feature films, she is arguably best known for Diary for My Children (1984), which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first entry in a trilogy of autobiographical films which also includes Diary for my Lovers (1987) and Diary for my Father and Mother (1990).
Throughout her career, Mészáros has won the Golden Bear and the Silver Bear awards at the Berlinale; the Golden Medal at the Chicago International Film Festival; the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival; and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was a member of the jury at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Filmography
Directing
40 credits
Hungary 2011
At the End of September
The Two of Them
On the Move
Little Vilma: The Last Diary
Everyday Stories
Riddance
The Land of Mirage
Diary for My Loves
Blow-Ball
Diary for My Children
The Inheritance
Just Like at Home
The Girl
Diary for My Father and My Mother
Nine Months
Aurora Borealis: Northern Light
At the Lőrinc Spinnery
Adoption
Last Report on Anna
Binding Sentiments
Szentendre And Its Painters
The Seventh Room
Women of Today
Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!
Edith and Marlene
Daughters of Fortune
Care and Affection
Bye Bye, Red Riding Hood
Salesmanship
The Unburied Man
My Mother's Letters to Stalin
Let All Children Smile
Fetus
In Memoriam László Mészáros
Vieras
Tomorrow's Shift
The Miraculous Mandarin
Heartbeat
A Mother, a Daughter
Writing
29 credits
Hungary 2011
The Two of Them
On the Move
Little Vilma: The Last Diary
Everyday Stories
Riddance
Diary for My Loves
Blow-Ball
Diary for My Children
The Inheritance
Just Like at Home
The Girl
Diary for My Father and My Mother
Nine Months
Aurora Borealis: Northern Light
At the Lőrinc Spinnery
Adoption
Binding Sentiments
The Seventh Room
Daughters of Fortune
Bye Bye, Red Riding Hood
The Unburied Man
Let All Children Smile
Fetus
In Memoriam László Mészáros
Vieras
Tomorrow's Shift
Heartbeat
A Mother, a Daughter
Acting
5 credits
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Negative history of Hungarian cinema
No Country for the Poor
Márta Mészáros: Portrait of the Hungarian Filmmaker
Other credits
1 credit
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