Laszlo Nemes' Hungarian drama, Son Of Saul, has been on a run since breaking out at Cannes with the Grand Jury Prize last May — and it's having itself quite a weekend. It's just taken the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, a day after it scooped the Indie Spirit for Best International Film and won its category at the…

First-time helmer Laszlo Nemes’ Son Of Saul picked up a Foreign Language Oscar nomination last Thursday after it won the Golden Globe the Sunday before. This past Sunday, it was named Best Foreign Language Film at the Critics’ Choice Awards. To say the Holocaust drama has been on a roll ever since it debuted in Cannes…

With today’s Oscar nominations, the Foreign Language race has been whittled down to five. While there are no major shocks like last year when Force Majeure did not advance from the shortlist, there are nevertheless some interesting twists here. Notably, Mustang director Deniz Gamze Erguven has brought an Oscar…

In accepting the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film tonight, first-time feature director Laszlo Nemes said in his short speech, "The Holocaust has become over the years an abstraction. For me, it's more of a face we must not forget." Nemes' intense Holocaust drama has roundly been receiving praise since it…

Few new titles dared to go up against Star Wars: The Force Awakens this weekend, but Sony Pictures Classics’ Foreign-Language Oscar hopeful Son Of Saul showed the will to survive in its limited debut. The short-listed Hungarian-produced drama opened in three theaters in New York and LA with an average of almost $13K…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the shortlist of nine films that will advance to the next stage in the Foreign Language Film Oscar race. There are a number of deserving and buzzed about films here that were tipped to be among the next stage group. And, as with every year, there are some…

Star Wars looms high and mighty, but some Specialty distributors are seeing an opportunity to go up against the Disney blockbuster this weekend. Sony Classics is opening Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner Son Of Saul with very limited runs in New York and L.A., launching a slow but steady rollout that is in line with the…

The Foreign Language Oscar race consistently serves up a cornucopia of interesting auteur fare from around the world. And with every year's increasing embarrassment of riches, it's more difficult to predict how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Phase One and Executive Committees will weed out the lead…

Certainly one of the most acclaimed , as well as harrowing movies on display at our big 5th annual awards season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline (which took place in front of a packed DGA house full of AMPAS and Guild voters earlier this month) was Son Of Saul, Hungary’s official entry into the Best Foreign…

There are 81 films vying for the Foreign Language Oscar this year, two fewer than last year's record 83 but no less rich with subjects and auteurs from around the world. Each year the Foreign Language Film Award Committee faces an increasing embarrassment of riches, which it has to whittle down to just nine films for…

Screenings of two Cannes favorites — Grand Prix winner Son Of Saul and Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words, which won a special citation, drew emotional crowds to Lincoln Center in this second week of the New York Film Festival. The two movies couldn’t be more different: Son Of Saul sheds light on the darkest of the dark…

Over the next couple of months, we’ll increasingly learn which films various countries are putting forth as their Foreign Language Oscar submissions. First off the block is Hungary who today confirmed that Son Of Saul will look to make the trek to the Dolby next February. This is one of the more obvious choices given…