Name Ferenc Rofusz | Role Animator | |
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Movies The Fly, Gravitacio, The Stone, Deadlock Awards Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated), Kossuth Prize | ||
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Ferenc Rofusz is a Hungarian animator.
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Biography
Rofusz was born in 1946 in Budapest. His interest in animation and film making started relatively early. During his studies he took special drawing and animating courses. He started to work at the Hungarian film studio Mafilm as set designer, set painter and animator. In 1968 he joined Pannonia Filmstudio and partnered Marcell Jankovics on the animation project Gusztav ("Gustavus"). In 1974 he made his first animated film A ko ("The Stone"), and six years later for A Legy ("The Fly") he received the 1981 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
Hungary was a Communist country at the time, and Rofusz himself was not allowed to leave the country to attend the Oscars. However, without his knowledge, somebody accepted the award for him during the show.
In the early 1980s, Rofusz released two new animated films, Holtpont ("Deadlock", Stuttgart - Special Prize of the Jury 1984) and Gravitacio ("Gravity", OIAF Award, 1984). In 1988 he moved to Canada and began working at Toronto's Nelvana studio. In 2002 he returned to Hungary. Some of his recent works include Tuzet szuntess! ("Cease Fire!", 2003), A Dog’s Life (2005), and Ticket (2010), the latter of which won him the Children's Jury Award at the 10th Kecskemet Animation Film Festival.
