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Yuval David
March 6, 2025, 3:44 pm
Israeli actor invites Kieran Culkin to visit US Holocaust Museum
Oscar winner lauded for role in film about Holocaust but doesn't mention it in acceptance speech
By Jenni Frazer
Mikey Madison
March 4, 2025, 8:29 am
Jewish actors scoop top awards at Oscars
Mikey Madison wins best actress and Adrien Brody wins award for playing a Holocaust survivor for the second time
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Screenshot: Twitter/X
March 3, 2025, 9:50 am
Israeli and Palestinian Oscar winners use speeches to call for solution to conflict
No Other Land, which chronicles demolitions in the Palestinian West Bank village of Masafer Yatta, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature
By Ben Sales (JTA)
Adrien Brody, from left, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for "The Brutalist," Mikey Madison, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Anora," Zoe Saldana, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for "Emilia Perez," and Kieran Culkin, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for "A Real Pain,"
March 3, 2025, 8:12 am
Adrien Brody speaks of antisemitism and racism as he picks up best actor Oscar
Two-time Academy Award winner, has won a slew of awards this season for his role playing Hungarian-Jewish architect Laszlo Toth
By Jewish News Reporter
Timothee Chamalet plays Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown
January 23, 2025, 4:06 pm
Jewish talent features heavily in Oscar nominations
The Brutalist picks up 10 Oscar nominations, with A Complete Unknown close behind
By Andrew Lapin (JTA)
Screenshot. Sir Len Blavatnik, centre.
March 15, 2024, 11:27 am
The Zone of Interest exec-producer insists: ‘My support for Israel is unwavering’
EXCLUSIVE: Spokesperson for philanthropist Sir Len Blavatnik speaks to Jewish News after Oscar-winning Holocaust film director Jonathan Glazer "refutes" his Jewishness being "hijacked by an occupation".
By Michelle Rosenberg
March 13, 2024, 6:43 pm
OPINION: Unlike Jonathan Glazer I see two sides to this
Josh Glancy considers the social cost and professional implications of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
By Josh Glancy
David Schaecter and Jonathan Glazer at the Oscars.
March 12, 2024, 5:49 pm
‘Factually inaccurate and morally indefensible’: Auschwitz survivor denounces Jonathan Glazer
Film director told by 94-year-old David Schaechter he should be "ashamed" that he linked Auschwitz with Gaza in his Oscar speech.
By Jenni Frazer
The Zone of Interest
January 24, 2024, 10:31 am
FILM REVIEW: The twilight zone between evil and ignorance
Our capacity to ignore what’s under our nose if it offends our eyes and ears ­– if it lies outside our zone of interest – is tested to breaking point and beyond in Jonathan Glazer’s unflinching new film about the commandant of Auschwitz, writes Richard Ferrer
By Richard Ferrer
June 20, 2023, 9:40 am
The Way We Were: 50 Years Later
A celebration of the greatest film about marrying out
By Brigit Grant
Steven Spielberg, who didn't win any Oscars, poses with Ke Huy Quan, who did, and Spielberg's wife Kate Capshaw at the 95th Academy Awards in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, March 12, 2023. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
March 13, 2023, 8:43 am
‘Fabelmans’ flops at the Oscars, but Hollywood’s Jewish history gets a nod
Steven Spielberg's personal dramatisation of his Jewish upbringing didn’t win a single one of the Oscars it was nominated for Sunday night.
By Andrew Lapin (JTA)
Director Lin-Manuel Miranda on location with Garfield for Tick,Tick....Boom
February 15, 2022, 2:44 pm
Spielberg, Gyllenhaal, Garfield among 2022 Jewish Oscar nominees
Jewish actress and musician Alana Haim was not nominated for her debut role in Licorice Pizza though the film received three, including best picture.
By JTA
Scarlett Johansson
January 14, 2020, 3:20 pm
Oscars 2020 nominations: Scarlett Johansson enters elite company
Jewish snub of the year goes to “Uncut Gems” — the Diamond District thriller by the Jewish Safdie brothers, starring Adam Sandler
By JTA
Eric Pleskow (Wikipedia/Manfred Werner / Tsui)
October 7, 2019, 4:01 pm
Shoah refugee and Oscar-winning film producer Eric Pleskow dies at 95
Former president of the United Artists studio when it scooped best picture for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,' 'Rocky' and 'Annie Hall' passes away
By JTA
Trudie Styler (left to right), Jaime Ray Newman, Celine Rattry and Guy Nattiv (Credit: Ian West/PA Wire)
February 25, 2019, 10:31 am
Israeli director Guy Nattiv wins Oscar for best live action short
The filmmaker credited his grandparents who survived the Holocaust as his inspiration in acceptance speech.
By JTA
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