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Istvan Szabo
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István Szabó (1938, Budapest, Hungary) is the best-known and one of the most critically-acclaimed Hungarian film directors of the past few decades. He gained world recognition with the intimate films Age of Illusions (Álmodozások kora, 1964), Father (Apa, 1966) and A Film about Love (Szerelmesfilm, 1970). During the 1980s he attracted the attention with a trilogy on civil power and powerlessness: Mephisto (1981, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, FIPRESCI Award and Best Screenplay at Cannes), Colonel Redl (Oberst Redl, 1984, Jury Prize at Cannes) and Hanussen (1988). Then he made the English-language films Meeting Venus (1991), Sunshine (1999), Taking Sides (2001) and Being Julia (2004), which garnered an Oscar nomination for actress Annette Bening.
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