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  • Hungarian actor Geza Rohrig (L) and Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes hold the Oscar for best foreign film for 'Son of Saul' as they arrive to the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California, February 28, 2016. (Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/AFP/Getty Images)
    Hungarian actor Geza Rohrig (L) and Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes hold the Oscar for best foreign film for 'Son of Saul' as they arrive to the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California, February 28, 2016. (Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/AFP/Getty Images)
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    ‘Son of Saul’ Wins Oscar, Cementing Strength of Holocaust-Themed Films at Academy Awards

    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

    byJ. Hoberman
  • Theda Bara in the film Cleopatra, 1917.
    Theda Bara in the film Cleopatra, 1917.
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    Jewish Bad Girl Theda Bara Never Won an Oscar

    But ‘the Vamp’ of the silent screen may have spawned today’s Hollywood starlet

    byRachel Paige King
  • Director Francis Ford Coppola (C) holds his Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, or Thalberg bust, as Actor Eli Wallach (L) and Film Historian and Preservationist Kevin Barlow (R) hold their Honorary Awards, or Oscar Statuettes, at the 2010 Oscars Governors Awards at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood on November 13, 2010.
    Director Francis Ford Coppola (C) holds his Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, or Thalberg bust, as Actor Eli Wallach (L) and Film Historian and Preservationist Kevin Barlow (R) hold their Honorary Awards, or Oscar Statuettes, at the 2010 Oscars Governors Awards at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood on November 13, 2010.
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    Hollywood’s Ultimate Honor Isn’t the Oscar. It’s the Irving.

    Who stands taller in film history than the legendary head of production for MGM, Irving Thalberg?

    byJ. Hoberman
  • Photo: Jamie Vesay(Columbia Tristar Pictures)
    Photo: Jamie Vesay(Columbia Tristar Pictures)
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    Kafka’s Ring-Bearer Haunts Barry Levinson’s ‘Avalon’ at 25

    The underappreciated, intimate family saga is as much about Jewishness as it is an American story—but which Jewishness?

    byEsther Schor
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