The Zone of Interest
Cinema for Gaza Celebrity Auction Raises Over $316,000 for Relief Efforts
Cinema for Gaza, a group launched by a small group of female filmmakers and film journalists, has successfully raised more than $315,000 to support medical aid for the civilian population in Gaza. A celebrity auction, organized by Cinema for Gaza, and supported by the likes of Tilda Swinton, Annie Lennox, Joaquin Phoenix, Spike Lee and […]
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Jonathan Glazer’s Controversial Oscars Speech Backed by Group of Jewish Creatives
Nearly a month after Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech reverberated across Hollywood and caused a wave of controversy, 455 Jewish creatives (and counting) have signed a letter in a show of support. “We were alarmed to see some of our colleagues in the industry mischaracterize and denounce his remarks. Their attacks on Glazer are a dangerous […]
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Jonathan Glazer Donates Signed ‘Zone of Interest’ Posters to Gaza Humanitarian Relief Auction
Jonathan Glazer has kept a low profile since his controversial 2024 Oscars acceptance speech. But The Zone of Interest filmmaker has resurfaced to donate seven signed posters for his Oscar-winning movie, as well as a selection of posters for his 2014 film Under the Skin, to the Cinema for Gaza auction that is raising funds […]
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Jonathan Glazer Open Letter Gets More Than 500 Additional Signatures Overnight (Exclusive)
More than 500 additional Hollywood figures signed the letter overnight condemning Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars 2024 speech for his best international film win for The Zone of Interest. The letter, which was published yesterday with 450 signees already attached, denounced the director’s speech, mimicking his own phrasing at the awards show on March 10. The signatories […]
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Open Letter Condemning Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’ Oscars Speech Garners Over 450 Signatures
An open letter condemning Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest Oscars acceptance speech has been signed by more than 450 Jewish Hollywood professionals. The group consists of actors, executives, directors, creators, producers and representatives denouncing Glazer’s controversial comments made when accepting the Academy Award for best international film on March 10. “We refute our Jewishness being […]
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Vilnius Film Festival Lights Up Baltic Cinema With 29th Edition
The Vilnius International Film Festival (VIFF) continues to stake its claim as one of the can’t-miss cinema events of Eastern Europe, not just for local audiences (as Lithuania’s largest film festival) but increasingly for industry attendees from the region and across the continent. The Vilnius’ 29th edition, which kicked off March 14 with the opening […]
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‘Zone of Interest’ Financier Danny Cohen Rejects Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Speech: “I Fundamentally Disagree”
The Zone of Interest executive producer and co-financier Danny Cohen has come out against director Jonathan Glazer’s 2024 Oscars acceptance speech, while defending the film itself as a “great piece of art.” “It’s really important to recognize [the speech has] upset a lot of people and a lot of people feel upset and angry about […]
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The Real Hero of ‘The Zone of Interest’
The online furor over the comments made by director Jonathan Glazer in his Oscar acceptance speech for The Zone of Interest — where the British director commented on the ongoing war in Gaza — has overshadowed Glazer’s closing statements, in which he dedicated his Academy Award to Alexandria Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk, a woman who fought the Nazis […]
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Guest Column: I Produced an Oscar-Winning Holocaust Film. Here Is Why Jonathan Glazer’s Speech Was So Offensive
Twenty-six years ago, I had the great fortune to stand on the stage of the Shrine Auditorium and accept the Oscar for best feature documentary during the 70th Academy Awards. It was for the The Long Way Home, a very personal story as it recounted what many of my relatives and hundreds of thousands of Jews endured […]
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Pro-Israel ‘Zone of Interest’ Producer Len Blavatnik Did Not Sign Off on Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Statement (Exclusive)
As Oscar night fades in the rearview, arguments over who got robbed and who had the nicest dress continue to recede. One story, however, continues to rage on — a backlash (and backlash to the backlash) to the acceptance speech given by Jonathan Glazer alongside producers James Wilson and Len Blavatnik when The Zone of […]
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Where to Stream Oscar-Winning Film ‘The Zone of Interest’ Online
The historical drama won best international feature film and best sound at the 96th Academy Awards.
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Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Speech Becomes Latest Battleground in Israel-Gaza Conflict
Jonathan Glazer’s searing Oscars acceptance speech, in which the Zone of Interest filmmaker referenced the Israel-Gaza conflict and said that he refuted his “Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation,” has led to a fierce reaction on social media. In his prepared speech accepting the 2024 Academy Award for best international film, Glazer […]
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