Laszlo Nemes
Lszl Nemes is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His 2015 debut feature film, Son of Saul, was screened in the main competition at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix. He is the first Hungarian director whose film has won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. His film, Son of Saul, is the second Hungarian film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Nemes was born in Budapest as the son of a jewish mother and the Hungarian film and theatre director Andrs Jeles. He moved to Paris at the age of 12. Nemes became interested in film making at an early age, when he made horror films in the basement of his Paris home. After studying History, International Relations and Screenwriting, he started working as an assistant director in France and Hungary on short and feature films. For two years, he worked as Bla Tarrs assistant during the filming of The Man from London.
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