László was born in Budapest in 1977. After directing his first 35-mm short film, 'With a Little Patience' (2007), he moved to New York to study Film Directing. His debut feature film, 'Son of Saul', was screened in the main competition at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix. He is the first Hungarian director whose film has won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
