László Nemes

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László Nemes (Hungarian: [%CB%88la%CB%90slo%CB%90 ˈnɛmɛʃ ˈjɛlɛʃ]; born Nemes Jeles László; 18 February 1977) 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,[1] where it won the Grand Prix.[2] He is the first Hungarian director whose film has won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.[3]

Contents [show] Life and career[edit] Nemes was born in Budapest, but grew up in Paris, the son of film and theatre director András Jeles. He became interested in film making at an early age, when he made horror films in the basement of their Paris home.[4] 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 Béla Tarr's assistant during the filming of The Man from London.[5][6]

After directing his first 35-mm short film, With a Little Patience, in September of 2006, he moved to New York to study film directing.[7] Beginning in September 2011, he spent five months in Paris as part of a scholarship program arranged by the Cinéfondation, where he and Clara Royer developed the script for Son of Saul. In 2012, they continued intensive work on the screenplay for seven months at the Jerusalem International Film Lab.[8]

His debut feature film, Son of Saul premiered at the 68th Cannes Film Festival as part of the main competition. It won the Grand Prix, the second-most prestigious prize of the festival. Nemes accepted the 2015 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film for Son of Saul at the telecast on 10 January 2016. It is the third Hungarian film nominated for a Golden Globe and the first Hungarian film to win.[9][10]

Nemes has named Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Terrence Malick and Stanley Kubrick as some of his favorite directors.[11]