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name: "Kornél Mundruczó"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kornel-mundruczo"
fi1m_id: "kornel-mundruczo"
imdb_id: "nm0610960"
tmdb_id: 56206
wikidata_id: "Q537284"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "3 April 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T01:32:47.201456+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kornél Mundruczó

## Identity

Kornél Mundruczó

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kornel-mundruczo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kornel-mundruczo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0610960
- **TMDB ID:** 56206
- **Wikidata ID:** Q537284
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537284, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0610960/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56206

Director. Born 3 April 1975 in Gödöllő, Hungary.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 3 April 1975, Gödöllő, Hungary
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Kata Wéber](https://film.one/person/kata-weber.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537284, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0610960/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56206

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Pieces of a Woman*](https://film.one/film/pieces-of-a-woman.md) (66)

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## Biography

Kornél Mundruczó is a Hungarian film and theatre director. Born in Gödöllő in 1975, he trained as an actor at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, graduating in 1998, and later as a film and television director in 2003. He founded the production company Proton Cinema in 2003.

His feature films include *Pleasant Days* (2002), *Johanna* (2005), which screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, *Delta* (2008), *White God* (2014), which won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes, *Jupiter's Moon* (2017) and the English-language debut *Pieces of a Woman* (2020), which premiered at Venice. He has also directed episodes of the series *The Crowded Room* (2023). Mundruczó is additionally known for his theatre work with Proton Theater.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, deadline.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Pieces of a Woman* (2020), Fi1m 66, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/pieces-of-a-woman.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Place to Be* (2026), Director
- *At the Sea* (2026), Director, Producer
- *Tosca -  Bayerische Staatsoper* (2024), Director
- *Explanation for Everything* (2023), Executive Producer
- *The Crowded Room* (2023), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Summer to Come* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Lohengrin - Bayerische Staatsoper* (2022), Director
- *Evolution* (2021), Director, Writer
- *Pieces of a Woman* (2020), Director — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/pieces-of-a-woman.md)
- *Student Union* (2017), Associate Producer
- *Jupiter's Moon* (2017), Screenplay, Director
- *Most of the Souls That Live Here* (2016), Producer
- *White God* (2014), as Afghan · Screenplay, Director
- *Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project* (2010), The Director, Director, Screenplay
- *So Much for Justice!* (2010), as Vlad 2.
- *A Nibelung-lakópark* (2009), Director
- *Delta* (2008), Screenplay, Director
- *Girls* (2007), Actor
- *Ed's Eaten Elevenses* (2006), as Kornél / Commodus
- *Johanna* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Lost and Found* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Eastern Sugar* (2004), Actor
- *Little Apocrypha No. 1* (2004), Director
- *Little Apocrypha No. 2* (2004), Director
- *A Bus Came…* (2003), Director
- *A 78-as Szent Johannája* (2003), Director, Production Design, Writer
- *Pleasant Days* (2002), Director, Writer
- *Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse* (2001), as Kornél
- *Day After Day* (2001), Director, Screenplay
- *This I Wish and Nothing More* (2000), Writer, Director
- *The Revolution According to Kamo*, Director
- *Proxy*, Director
- *Palm Grove*, Director
- *Inherit the Earth*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Kornél Mundruczó (director) at the premiere of Places to Be at Venice Film Festival 2026.](https://film.one/media/person/3764801/gallery-95daf801d908.jpg) Kornél Mundruczó (director) at the premiere of Places to Be at Venice Film Festival 2026. — CaseyJNewell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3_at_Venice_Film_Festival_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kornél Mundruczó at Berlinale 2026 in Berlin, Germany](https://film.one/media/person/3764801/gallery-9812321df0c8.jpg) Kornél Mundruczó at Berlinale 2026 in Berlin, Germany — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3_at_Berlinale_2026-3.jpg/1280px-Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3_at_Berlinale_2026-3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kornél Mundruczó at Berlin Film Festival 2026](https://film.one/media/person/3764801/gallery-b8e932d4be5d.jpg) Kornél Mundruczó at Berlin Film Festival 2026 — User:Celestinesucess, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1240529%29.jpg/1280px-Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1240529%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kornél Mundruczó at Berlinale 2026 in Berlin, Germany](https://film.one/media/person/3764801/gallery-b376757b431c.jpg) Kornél Mundruczó at Berlinale 2026 in Berlin, Germany — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3_at_Berlinale_2026-2.jpg/1280px-Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3_at_Berlinale_2026-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kornél Mundruczó](https://film.one/media/person/3764801/gallery-928fc2ba8a7f.jpg) Kornél Mundruczó — Image via TMDB
- ![Kornél Mundruczó at Berlinale 2026 in Berlin, Germany](https://film.one/media/person/3764801/gallery-335b8513c18a.jpg) Kornél Mundruczó at Berlinale 2026 in Berlin, Germany — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3_at_Berlinale_2026-4.jpg/1280px-Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3_at_Berlinale_2026-4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kornél Mundruczó at Berlinale 2026 in Berlin, Germany](https://film.one/media/person/3764801/gallery-b2e20e57c69f.jpg) Kornél Mundruczó at Berlinale 2026 in Berlin, Germany — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3_at_Berlinale_2026.jpg/1280px-Korn%C3%A9l_Mundrucz%C3%B3_at_Berlinale_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 5 won, 4 nominated

- Nestroy Theatre Prize for Best Direction 2024: Nestroy Theatre Prize for Best Direction (won)
- Hungarian Film Award for Best Director 2019: Hungarian Film Award for Best Director (nominated), for *Jupiter's Moon*
- Hungarian Film Award for Best Director 2018: Hungarian Film Award for Best Director (nominated), for *Jupiter's Moon*
- Time Machine Award 2017: Time Machine Award (won)
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2015: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *White God*
- Hevesi Sándor Award 2013: Hevesi Sándor Award (won)
- Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic 2008: Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (won)
- Béla Balázs Award 2003: Béla Balázs Award (won)
- European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year 2002: European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year (nominated), for *Pleasant Days*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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