Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
While it would have been nice to get the very first Oscar for an Israeli film, Joseph Cedar’s Beaufort was not Oscar material in my book.
Here is Cedar making his good-for-you-face to Austrian winner Stefan Ruzowitzky for Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters):
More info on your mainstream media.
With all the excitement of an Israeli film nominated for an Academy Award for the first time in twenty years, I did not pay enough attention to the Documentary Feature category:
Three out of five films nominated deal directly with the Iraqi conflict, including ‘No End in Sight‘, which I wrote about in a post titled ‘Watch This Film and Become a Better Citizen of the World in 90 Minutes‘. If you were not persuaded to follow my advice then, with an Oscar nomination you really have no excuse now.
Watch the No End in Sight trailer here:
The 80th Academy Awards telecast, hosted by Jon Stewart (Leibowitz), will be broadcasted live:
USA - February 24th, 5PT/8ET, ABC
Israel - February 25th, 3am, Hot Gold (channel 12)
Why do they call an actor who wins an Oscar, an ‘Academy Award Winner’ - and an actor who loses, an ‘Academy Award Nominee’?
The 80th Annual Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2008.
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