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Topic: Oscars

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February 25, 2013
4:44 am

'5 Broken Cameras' co-directors Guy Davidi and Emad Burnat (photo credit: Kino Lorber)

No sugar for Israeli contenders at Oscars

Pre-show favorite ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ takes home the prize for best documentary; ‘Argo’ wins Best Picture

By Michal Shmulovich

February 24, 2013
1:12 am

The Oscar-nominated documentary "Liberators" falsely claimed a battalion of African-American soldiers had helped to free the Buchenwald concentration camp. (US Army, US Defense Visual Information Center, Image #HD-SN-99-02764, Wikimedia Commons)

Ceremony marks 20 years since Oscar-nominated sham

As Hollywood gathers for its glitziest moment, it’s worth recalling the Academy’s embrace of a Holocaust documentary exposed as a lie

By Mark Schulte

February 23, 2013
7:37 am

Former Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor and his wife, Pat, pose for photographers at the premiere of the film Argo in Washington, DC, last October (photo credit: AP/Cliff Owen)

If ‘Argo’ wins, Affleck must mention Canada

Former Canadian ambassador to Iran says Oscar-nominated film greatly downplays his country’s role in hostage crisis

By Rob Gillies

February 23, 2013
6:51 am

I represent Israel, not Netanyahu, ‘Gatekeepers’ director says

Oscar-nominated Dror Moreh dismisses criticism from Likud politicians of his film documenting views of former Shin Bet chiefs

By Ilan Ben Zion

February 20, 2013
2:53 pm

Emad Burnat and one of his sons in the movie poster for '5 Broken Cameras' (Courtesy '5 Broken Cameras')

Director of 5 Broken Cameras held up at LAX

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore reports that he helped Emad Burnat get through US immigration in order to attend the Oscars

By Gabe Fisher

February 11, 2013
1:49 am

Suraia Burnat, 42, wife of the Palestinian co-director of "Five Broken Cameras" hangs washing on the rooftop of their home in the West Bank village of Bilin last Sunday. (photo credit: AP/Diaa Hadid)

Oscar contender on Palestinian protests irks both sides

Some Israelis wonder why the state funded a film so critical of its policies, while Palestinians are shocked the film’s being billed as ‘Israeli’

By Diaa Hadid

February 1, 2013
10:07 pm

“When you leave the Shin Bet, you become a bit of a leftist,” says Yaakov Peri, who ran the agency for nearly a decade. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

Second Israeli Oscar nominee arrives in US theaters

Opening Friday, ‘The Gatekeepers’ takes a complex look at the men responsible for Israel’s security — and offers a clear contrast with its competition

By Nathan Burstein

January 30, 2013
11:28 am

Oscar-nominated Palestinian filmmaker insists his movie is not Israeli

Emad Burnat is annoyed that his documentary, which is relentlessly critical of Israel, is being touted as an Israeli, not a Palestinian production

By Jessica Steinberg

January 22, 2013
12:51 am

Co-director Emad Burnat with his five broken cameras. (photo credit: Kino Lorber)

Terror victims group asks Oscars to snub Israeli films

Almagor believes documentaries nominated for Academy Award create ‘false impression’ of Israel’s character

By Greg Tepper

January 13, 2013
10:19 pm

Guy Davidi, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker who will trade his plaid shirts for a tux for the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony in February (Courtesy Guy Davidi)

‘Broken Cameras’ director unsurprised by Oscar nod

Guy Davidi tells The Times of Israel that the nomination for an Academy Award is very welcome, but exposing the film to Israeli youth is more important

By Jessica Steinberg

January 11, 2013
4:25 pm

Except for asking an occasional follow-up question, "The Gatekeepers" director Dror Moreh lets his subjects speak for themselves. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

How I persuaded six intelligence chiefs to pour out their hearts

Dror Moreh, whose The Gatekeepers has been nominated for an Oscar, tells the Times of Israel how he conducted the revelatory interviews in his acclaimed documentary, and the impact the spy heads’ revelations had on him

By Mitch Ginsburg

January 11, 2013
11:07 am

Gearing up for the elections? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a snowball fight with his family in Jerusalem on Thursday (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Snow news is good news

While Jerusalem reposes under a white blanket, another storm brews on the horizon — the elections

By Yossi Nachemi

January 10, 2013
11:05 pm

Steven Spielberg's first movie screened at Cannes in 1974. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Jewish filmmakers rack up Oscar nominations

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ leads the way with 12 nods

By Times of Israel staff

January 10, 2013
4:59 pm

Two Israeli documentaries nominated for Oscar

’5 Broken Cameras’ and ‘The Gatekeepers’ among the five films named for Best Documentary

By Jessica Steinberg and AP

January 5, 2013
9:57 pm

Oscars zoom in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Two Israeli documentaries shortlisted for Academy Award nomination

By Daniel Estrin

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