While Hungarians have historically been well represented at the Academy Awards, the Emmys — which honors television in the USA and beyond — have been more difficult to crack. One notable exception was in the 2019 Emmy’s when Hungarian Actress Marina Gera won an award for her role in the WWII drama Eternal Winter.

This year may see another Emmy coming back to Hungary — in spirit at least — when Marcell Rév learns if he won in the category in which he was nominated: Outstanding Cinematography, for the HBO series Euphoria. It is a big year for Rév, who also worked on famed director Ildikó Enyedi’s most recent film Story of My Wife, which just debuted at Cannes. Moreover, Malcolm & Marie, a film he worked on with Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, was released in January on Netflix.

Wikipedia offers the following synopsis of Euphoria: “Euphoria is an American teen drama television series created and written by Sam Levinson for HBO. It is loosely based on the Israeli television miniseries of the same name created by Ron Leshem and Daphna Levin. It follows a group of high school students through their experiences of sex, drugs, friendships, love, identity, and trauma”. The know-it-all site goes on to praise Rév, citing positive reviews from critics for the cinematography.

Deadline.com, in an interview with Rév, called his work on Euphoria, a “gorgeously stylized aesthetic”. Rév went on to describe the show’s basic visual aesthetic: “It has to be colorful in a way, I think, to feel that elevation. But we didn’t want it to go like rainbow colors, or with no real system in it. So, most of the time, we’re using primary colors, and I’m relying a lot on the orange-blue color contrast, which is a really basic one,” the cinematographer says. “We use that in night scenes, as well as in day scenes.”

Rév, a graduate of increasingly famous Hungarian film school SzFE, the University of Theatre & Film Arts, has a history of working on prestigious Hungarian film projects, like director Kornél Mundruczó’s films White God and Jupiter’s Moon, not to mention winning numerous awards including Film Treat’s Best Indie Cinematographer Award in 2019.

Here’s hoping September’s Emmy’s presentation will see another Hungarian win. Until then, enjoy a trailer from the show, found below.

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