It was the Hungarian director László Nemes' first full-length film, which had been seen as the favorite to win the award. The coveted award for Best Foreign Language Film was presented by Sofia Vergara and Byung-hun Lee.
The film, ”Son of Saul” also won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and took the second-highest prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
The holocaust drama tells the story of almost two days in 1944 in a death camp where Saul Auslander - played by newcomer Géza Röhrig, a New York-based Hungarian - a Hungarian Jew forced to burn corpses in a crematorium, discovers his son among the bodies, and endeavours to give him a proper burial. While Saul toils at the centre of the Holocaust inferno, the viewer follows him around the camp, seeing what he sees, much of the action blurred in the background.
Director László Nemes dedicated the award to actor Géza Röhrig and "the incredible cast who believed in this film when no one else did."
Nemes also told the Oscars audience in Hollywood: "Even in the darkest hours of mankind there might be a voice within us that allows us to remain human – that's the hope of this film."
Vilmos Zsigmond, Oscar-winning cinematographer was among the prominent figures commemorated at the Oscars 2016 Movie Awards. The ceremony, held for the 88th time at the Los Angeles Dolby Theater Hall, traditionally paid respect to all the celebrities who had their contribution to the US cinema art. The Hungarian-born film legend worked with Altman, Spielberg and more was best known for his work on The Deer Hunter and Close Encounters of the Third Kind died this January.
Hungary was the scene of the award-winning movie. Its success can result in a rising interest in Hungarian films.
(Sources:
http://news.yahoo.com/son-saul-film-holocaust-hell-earns-oscar-050113737.html
http://hvg.hu/kultura/20160229_Megnyerte_az_Oscar_dij_a_Saul_fia)
