Oscars

Israeli film Butcher's Stain receives an Oscar nomination in Best Live Action Short category

Butcher’s Stain has already won a Silver Medal in the Narrative category at the 2025 Student Academy Awards, an important achievement for a filmmaker at the beginning of his career.

Omar Sameer Mahamid stars in Meyer Levinson-Blount's Butcher's Stain, a short film that has received an Oscar nomination.
Likud parliament member Miki Zohar reacts during an arrangements committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 13, 2020.

Israeli film industry in turmoil as Culture Ministry awards ignite backlash 

 An Oscar statue is seen on stage after the 82nd annual Academy Awards nomination announcements in Beverly Hills February 2, 2010.

'Butcher’s Stain' lands Oscars shortlist as Israel shut out of international feature race

Scene from 'Dream'

Norwegian movies 'Dreams' and 'Love' open in Israel


Glazer desecrated the memory of millions of Jews - opinion

As I said then, placing Hitler into context is like placing cancer into context instead of realizing cancer for what it really is: a horrible, deadly disease.

 Director Jonathan Glazer poses with the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for "The Zone of Interest" of United Kingdom in the Oscars photo room at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024.

Hollywood is failing Jewish-Americans despite a history together - opinion

Far from Jews controlling Hollywood, it would seem that in order to get ahead, they must bury their Jewishness, or else prostrate to antisemites.

 BILLIE EILISH, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, and others wore a pin of a red hand at the Oscars (left), failing to understand that the red hand is a symbol of the red hands of Aziz Salha after he killed two Jews in a lynching in Ramallah in 2000 (right.)

‘Zone of Interest’ producer calls Oscars speech a ‘distraction,’ as Auschwitz memorial defends it

Even as Danny Cohen took Glazer’s speech to task, another major voice in the debate has also weighed in — supporting Glazer.

  Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Letters to the editor, March 13, 2024: Not a world expert

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Jonathan Glazer is just a useful idiot for the enemies of the Jewish people - opinion

As Jewish history teaches us, there will always be “useful [Jewish] idiots” like Jonathan Glazer, and some of the dangerous anti-Zionists will be Jewish.

 Jonathan Glazer poses on the red carpet during the Oscars arrivals at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024.

Celebrities continue their silence on the hostages at the Oscars - editorial

What happened at the Oscars exemplifies how short the world’s memory is: How did this start? Who started it? Who broke a ceasefire, killed 1,200 people and took innocents captive?

A view of a Hollywood star with the name of Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaida written on it, during a pro-Palestinian protest near the perimeter of the 96th Academy Awards, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, US, March 10, 2024.

Noa Tishby, Yoseph Haddad slam celebrities wearing ceasefire pins at Oscars

Israeli advocates, Noa Tishby and Yoseph Haddad highlight the anti-Israeli symbolism of Artists4Ceasefire's red pin worn during Sunday's Oscars event.

 Former special envoy for combating antisemitism Noa Tishby at a roundtable discussion at the Capitol about the sexual and gender-based violence Hamas perpetrated on Oct. 7.

The sad spectacle of a Jew using the Oscars to bash Israel - comment

It is sad because it reflects a persistent pattern among our people where Jews themselves become numbered among the Jewish community’s greatest detractors.

 The 76th Cannes Film Festival - Press conference for the film "The Zone of Interest" in competition - Cannes, France, May 20, 2023. Director Jonathan Glazer attends.

'Acknowledging Jewish victims will cost him': Jewish creators comment on Jonathan Glazer's speech

Inside the auditorium, there were almost no yellow ribbons denoting support for the hostages held by Hamas, save for Avi Arad, the Israeli-American producer of Spider-Verse: Across the Spider-Verse.

 A detail shot of the dress worn by Da'Vine Joy Randolph at the Vanity Fair Oscar party after the 96th Academy Awards, known as the Oscars, in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., March 10, 2024.

Jewish orgs: Glazer assisting in the 'dehumanization of the fight for Jewish survival'

Combat Antisemitism Movement CEO Sacha Roytman Dratwa said that Glazer was appropriating his religious and ethnic identity to attack Israel while it was defending itself against genocidal actors.  

 Director Jonathan Glazer poses with the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for "The Zone of Interest" of United Kingdom in the Oscars photo room at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024.