Academy Awards Oscars

US actor Leonardo DiCaprio (L), Australian actress Margot Robbie, US film director Quentin Tarantino (2ndR) and his wife Israeli singer Daniella Pick and US actor Brad Pitt on the red carpet at the Festival Palace after the screening of the film "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" at the Cannes Film Festival in France, May 21, 2019. (LOIC VENANCE / AFP)

May 23, 2019, 2:17 am

Tarantino joined by Israeli wife at Cannes red carpet

Daniella Pick, who has a small role in her Oscar-winning husband’s latest film, shares the spotlight in France as movie earns praise

By TOI staff

Director Roman Polanski appears at an international film festival, where he promoted his latest film, 'Based on a True Story,' in Krakow, Poland, May 2, 2018. (AP Photo)

April 21, 2019, 12:49 am

Director Polanski sues Motion Picture Academy for reinstatement

Oscar-winner who fled statutory rape rap in 1977 says he wasn’t given a chance to defend himself when the academy voted to expel him last year amid #MeToo furor

By AFP

In this photo from February 28, 2019, filmmaker Steven Spielberg poses at the 2019 "An Unforgettable Evening" benefiting the Women's Cancer Research Fund, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

March 4, 2019, 8:25 pm

Spielberg’s push against Netflix at the Oscars hits a nerve

Director’s reported support for barring video streaming site from Academy Awards protested by industry figures who note its importance to minority filmmakers, say theaters outdated

By Lindsey Bahr

March 1, 2019, 4:42 pm

Anne Frank comparison sums up problems with Oscar winner ‘Green Book’

Using a white protagonist in a story about racism is like focusing on Holocaust victim’s saviors instead of herself, commentator says

By Lior Zaltzman

Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn, leads the 15th symphony concert during the Lucerne Festival in the concert hall in Switzerland, September 1, 2004. (Urs FlueelerKEYSTONE via AP, File)

February 28, 2019, 11:28 pm

Andre Previn, Oscar-winning Jewish composer, dies at 89

Renowned pianist and conductor who fled Nazi Germany as a child was best known for writing film scores for ‘Porgy and Bess’ and ‘My Fair Lady’

By Lindsey Bahr

'Skin' actors Lonnie Chavis (left) and Jackson Robert Scott (right) with director Guy Nattiv (center) (Courtesy 'Skin' official Facebook page)

February 26, 2019, 12:04 pm

Oscar winner Guy Nattiv’s next film probes grandma’s cult past

‘Harmony’ is a documentary about the Holocaust survivor’s mysterious and ‘devastating’ decision to leave her life in Israel and join a compound in Virginia

By Jessica Steinberg

Best Live Action Short Film winners for 'Skin' director Guy Nattiv, left, and Jaime Ray Newman attend the 91st Annual Academy Awards Governors Ball at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood, California on February 24, 2019. (Robyn BECK/AFP)

February 25, 2019, 11:30 am

Israeli Oscar winner promises to bring award to Israel

President Rivlin, ministers and lawmakers fete Guy Nattiv, whose movie wins Academy Award for best live action short film

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Rami Malek accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for "Bohemian Rhapsody" at the Oscars on February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

February 25, 2019, 8:01 am

Rami Malek becomes first Arab-American to win best actor Oscar

Egypt-born actor triumphs with portrayal of Freddie Mercury in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ notes that the Queen frontman was also an immigrant

By AP and TOI staff

Guy Nattiv, right, and Jaime Ray Newman accept the award for best live action short film for "Skin" at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

February 25, 2019, 5:17 am

Israeli director Guy Nattiv’s ‘Skin’ wins Oscar for best live action short film

Director cites Holocaust survivor grandparents in acceptance speech, saying bigotry they experienced is all around us today and was motivation for film about race relations

By TOI staff and AP

Actress Rachel Weisz poses for photographers backstage with her Best Supporting Actress award for her role in the film 'The Favourite' at the BAFTA awards in London, February 10, 2019. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

February 23, 2019, 1:27 pm

Jews really don’t own Hollywood: Chosen get few Oscar nods, are played by goyim

If you’re rooting for Members of the Tribe this year, you might be disappointed. But there’s plenty of other gold at Sunday’s Awards

By Jordan Hoffman

The Oscars (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

February 22, 2019, 3:12 am

A Jewish guide to the 2019 Oscars

From Rachel Weisz in ‘The Favourite’ to a Nazi documentary that angered Fox News, here is what to look out for at Sunday’s Academy Awards

By Gabe Friedman

Lebanese director Nadine Labaki speaks during an interview in Beirut, on January 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

January 24, 2019, 8:46 pm

In first, Arab female filmmaker nominated for Academy Award

Lebanese director Nadine Labaki’s ‘Capernaum’ dramatizes struggles of Syrian refugees through the story of a boy and toddler on Beirut’s streets

By Sarah El Deeb

Ruth Bader Ginsburg with her granddaughter, Clara Spera, in a scene from the Oscar-nominated documentary 'RBG.' (Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures via JTA)

January 22, 2019, 7:26 pm

Ruth Bader Ginsberg documentary nominated for Oscar

Rachel Weisz nominated for best supporting actress; Coen brothers up for award for best adapted screenplay

By Marcy Oster

January 22, 2019, 6:32 pm

Israeli director Guy Nattiv’s short film ‘Skin’ gets Oscar nod

Movie exploring gang war that breaks out after black man smiles at a white child has since been developed into full-length feature about white supremacists

By TOI staff and AP

Tim Kalkhof plays a German man who falls in love with a married Israeli man in 'The Cakemaker.' (Strand Releasing/via JTA)

December 18, 2018, 3:59 pm

Israeli Oscar submission fails to make foreign film shortlist

‘The Cakemaker,’ a drama about a German-Israeli bisexual love triangle, is eliminated by the Academy in first round of cuts

By JTA and TOI staff