László Nemes

László Nemes earned my admiration the moment I saw the suffocating long takes of Son of Saul. Born in Budapest and trained at NYU, he refuses the easy emotional shortcuts most filmmakers reach for, instead confronting 20th-century Jewish resistance head-on with meticulous historical sets. Winning a Golden Globe and the Kossuth Prize so early in his career was no accident. His films are hard to sit through, but that difficulty is precisely the point and the proof of his integrity. I think cinema needs directors willing to make us uncomfortable, and I will keep waiting quietly for whatever he makes next.

Name (English)

László Nemes

Name (Japanese)

ネメシュ・ラースロー

Reading

ねめしゅ・らーすろー

Born

February 18, 1977 (age 49)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Snake

Origin

Budapest, Hungary

Occupation

film director / film screenwriter / director / screenwriter

University

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Awards & achievements

• 2016 Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film
• 2016 Kossuth Prize

• Official sitehttp://ww35.laszlonemes.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3%20Nemes
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8D%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6495014

Tags

• film director
• film screenwriter
• director

Last updated

2026-06-23

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