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Son of Saul
2015
· Movie
· 107 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #967
- IMDb #1319
- Rotten Tomatoes #858
- Metacritic #383
- Letterboxd #440
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #272
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1771
- Metacritic Critics #146
- Metacritic Audience #1543
- Criticker #414
- Kinopoisk #3345
- AlloCiné #1505
- Trakt #2198
Every rating
66–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 66, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 94, everyone else 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner named Saul works as a member of the Sonderkommando, forced to aid in the machinery of the genocide. While working, he discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. In the living hell of the camp, he becomes consumed by a single mission: to save the child's body from cremation and find a rabbi to give him a proper burial.
Details
- Director
- László Nemes
- Writers
- Clara Royer, László Nemes
- Studio
- Laokoon Filmgroup
- Released
- 11 June 2015
- Country
- Hungary
- Language
- Hungarian, Yiddish, German, Russian, Polish, French, Greek, Slovak, Hebrew
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.0M
- Box office
- $1.8M
- Awards
- 27 wins, 7 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 34 →8 major awards won · 27 wins from 34 nominations across 29 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 2015 | Best Foreign Language Film | Hungary | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2015 | Grand Prix | László Nemes | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2015 | FIPRESCI Prize | László Nemes | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2015 | Vulcan Award | Tamás Zányi | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2015 | François Chalais Prize | László Nemes | Winner |
| Critics' Choice Awards 2015 | Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
| Golden Globe Awards 2015 | Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
| Independent Spirit Awards 2015 | Best International Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
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Cannes Film Festival
6 nominations, 4 won
| FIPRESCI Prize | László Nemes | Winner |
| François Chalais Prize | László Nemes | Winner |
| Grand Prix | László Nemes | Winner |
| Vulcan Award | Tamás Zányi | Winner |
| Caméra d'Or | László Nemes | Nominee |
| Palme d'Or | László Nemes | Nominee |
Academy Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Hungary | Winner |
Critics' Choice Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
Golden Globe Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
Independent Spirit Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best International Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
César Awards
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Film | Son of Saul | Nominee |
Directors Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| First-Time Feature Film | László Nemes | Nominee |
American Society of Cinematographers Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Spotlight Award | Mátyás Erdély (tied with Adam Arkapaw for Macbeth ) | Winner |
Belgian Film Critics Association
1 nomination, 1 won
| Grand Prix | Son of Saul | Winner |
British Academy Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Film Not in the English Language | Son of Saul | Winner |
Camerimage
1 nomination, 1 won
| Bronze Frog | Mátyás Erdély | Winner |
Chicago Film Critics Association
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
Dorian Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Foreign Language Film of the Year | Son of Saul | Winner |
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
Guldbagge Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
Houston Film Critics Society
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
Manaki Brothers Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Golden Camera 300 | Mátyás Erdély | Winner |
Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Foreign Feature Film | Tamás Zányi, Tamás Beke, and Tamás Székely | Winner |
National Board of Review
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
New York Film Critics Circle
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best First Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
New York Film Critics Online
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
Satellite Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Son of Saul | Winner |
Australian Film Critics Association
1 nomination
| Best International Film (Foreign Language) | Son of Saul | Nominee |
British Independent Film Awards
1 nomination
| Best International Independent Film | Son of Saul | Nominee |
Online Film Critics Society
1 nomination
| Best Film Not in the English Language | Son of Saul | Nominee |