István Szabó Articles

BEING JULIA (2004) Direction: István Szabó Cast: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Shaun Evans, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson, Lucy Punch, Michael Gambon, Sheila McCarthy, Leigh Lawson, Rosemary Harris, Rita Tushingham Screenplay: Ronald Harwood; from W. Somerset Maugham's 1937 novel Theatre Oscar Movies Recommended with Reservations Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Being Julia A LITTLE ABOUT AVICE In Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1950 Oscar-winning classic All About [...]

The Guardian reports that Hungarian director István Szabó, 67, whose Mephisto won the 1981 best foreign-language film Academy Award, has been exposed "as a former informant for the communist authorities in 1950s Hungary. His activities coincided with the Soviet crackdown that followed the 1956 revolution and occurred when he was a student at the Budapest Academy of Film." Szabó defended himself from the accusations, saying [...]