![]() ![]() Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban had praised the Golden Globes win for Saul, saying on Facebook: “Wow! A unique Hungarian success! I convey my heartfelt congratulations to Laszlo Nemes and all the creators and actors of Son of Saul.” ![]() Istvan Szabo’s Mephisto (1981) won the country’s only foreign-language honor before Saul, and his Hanussen (1988) was the most recent Hungarian nominee in the category prior to this year. Son of Saul marked the first nomination since the fall of Communism, though. Hungarian films had been nominated for the foreign-language Oscar eight times before this awards season. It already won Hungary its first-ever Golden Globe earlier this year. ![]() Son of Saul, which tells the story of a Jewish Auschwitz concentration-camp prisoner desperately trying to give a boy a decent burial, was widely seen as this year’s favorite in the foreign-language category.
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