Son of Saul, a Hungarian drama featuring Romanian actor Levente Molnár, has been nominated for the 2016 Oscars, in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

The movie, which is the film debut of Hungarian director László Nemes, recently won the 2016 Golden Globe for best foreign language film.

The film's action takes place in 1944. Saul Ausländer, a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz works as a Sonderkommando member, burning the dead. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul finds the body of a boy he takes for his son. While the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul tries to save the child’s body from the flames and offer the boy a proper burial.

The nominations for this year’s Academy Awards have been announced on Thursday, January 14. The Revenant, which stars famous actor Leonardo DiCaprio, has 12 nominations, followed by Mad Max: Fury Road with 10. Find the entire list of nominations here.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com