Szabo was an acclaimed Hungarian American who was awarded the highest awards an actor can claim in Hungary including the Kossuth Prize.
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He won a number of awards for his own writing including the Baumgarten Prize, the József Attila Prize and the Kossuth Prize.
By receiving Kossuth prize in 1996 along with Péter Esterházy, he once again became subject to political criticism for alleged disrespect to Christianity.