The Oscars were an opportunity for Jewish actors to speak up for their people. Instead, they kept with Hollywood’s long tradition of missing moments for moral courage.
Hollywood no longer knows how to celebrate, much less create, art. If you want to know what happened to it, look at what happened to me.
The Oscar favorite intelligently addresses America’s current artistic and political twin crises
Eighty years ago tonight, thousands of Americans gathered in New York to rally behind the Nazi Party and its ideals. An Oscar-nominated short documentary retrieves footage of the event, but leaves out the context that gives it meaning.
Géza Röhrig talks about his life-affirming fascination with death, his new film ‘To Dust,’ and why he wore a kippah to press events surrounding his breakout performance in the Oscar-winning ‘Son of Saul’
A perpetual outsider, his works were lyrical and moving
You can botch her name, but you’ll never take away her magic
Because some of the best Jewish movies in history never won any Academy Awards gold
And the Academy Award for ‘Best Comeback’ goes to… the Academy
After winning an Oscar for Best Original Song—’City of Stars’ from ‘La La Land’—lyricist Benj Pasek thanked his mom for letting him ‘quit the JCC soccer team to be in a school musical.’
The Oscar-nominated short documentary tells the story of how a Holocaust survivor’s violin made it into the hands of a 12-year-old immigrant in the Bronx
The actress, nominated for an Oscar for her role in ‘Jackie,’ is a sort of First Lady to the stars: an example of class onscreen or, well, when teaching Hebrew slang
The lovely but somewhat overrated La La Land tied Titanic for most nominations in Academy Awards history
‘The Oscars feels like it has devolved into the kind of joyless and self-abnegating paean to the political that is the polar opposite of entertainment’
Nearly 85 percent of all Holocaust-themed Oscar nominees—going back to the first, ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ (1959)—have received at least one Academy Award
But ‘the Vamp’ of the silent screen may have spawned today’s Hollywood starlet
Lubezki, who often partners with Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón, is up for a third straight Oscar for ‘The Revenant’
Who stands taller in film history than the legendary head of production for MGM, Irving Thalberg?
