Since releasing Stateside in December, it’s grossed about $1.3M. This is Hungary’s 2nd Oscar win, following master Istvan Szabo’s 1981 Mephisto.įilmsDistribution sold this one internationally and Sony Pictures Classics snatched it up in Cannes. Son of Saul, directed by the 38-year-old Hungarian Lszl Nemes, is a harrowing tale that has taken home the Grand Prix, an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. As Deadline’s Pete Hammond has noted, the drama was not among the Foreign Language committee’s six choices for a slot on the shortlist and was instead added as a “save” by the executive committee which was formed a few years ago to avoid embarrassing omissions. But Son Of Saul almost didn’t make it as an Oscar nominee. Son of Saul, directed by Laszlo Nemes, beat out competitors from France, Denmark.

This weekend’s kudos are added to a Golden Globe and a DGA nod for the helmer, along with myriad other accolades. Hungary won its second foreign-language Oscar on Sunday night and its first since the fall of Communism in 1989.

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