FILM DIRECTOR

László Nemes

1977 - Today

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László Nemes (born Nemes Jeles László; Hungarian: [ˈnɛmɛʃ ˈjɛlɛʃ ˈlaːsloː]; 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, where it won the Grand Prix. He is the first Hungarian director whose film has won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of László Nemes has received more than 299,896 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). László Nemes is the 1,422nd most popular film director (down from 1,368th in 2019), the 734th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 644th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Hungarian Film Director.

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  • 2.30

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, László Nemes ranks 1,422 out of 2,041. Before him are Mike Judge, Michael Winterbottom, Victor Schertzinger, Melvin Frank, Stuart Baird, and Tarsem Singh. After him are Pavel Chukhray, Jun'ichi Kōuchi, Cristi Puiu, Irving Rapper, Clive Donner, and Patty Jenkins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, László Nemes ranks 180. Before him are Ryan Dunn, Park Yong-ha, Raúl Tamudo, Tobias Sammet, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Adam Darski. After him are Eric Christian Olsen, Cris, Johann Vogel, Miguel Ángel Angulo, Francesco Coco, and Gerard Way.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, László Nemes ranks 734 out of 1,077. Before him are Vilmos Varjú (1937), István Tarlós (1948), József Kovács (1926), Violetta Ferrari (1930), Tibor Tatai (1944), and Monique Covét (1976). After him are Gábor Csupó (1952), Mór Kóczán (1885), Gábor Benedek (1927), Márton Homonnai (1906), Zoltán Huszárik (1931), and József Bencsics (1933).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Hungary

Among film directors born in Hungary, László Nemes ranks 26. Before him are Károly Makk (1925), Lajos Koltai (1946), Zoltan Korda (1895), Peter Medak (1937), Attila Dargay (1927), and Pál Gábor (1932). After him are Gábor Csupó (1952), Zoltán Huszárik (1931), Kornél Mundruczó (1975), and György Pálfi (1974).

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Filmography

Son of Saul
Director
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper jewish burial.
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The Man from London
Director
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.
May 23o 20077.2 / 10
Sunset
Director
In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.
Sep 27o 20185.8 / 10