Oscars

Oscar hopes and Eurovision: Cultural challenges Israel faces next year

Ezra Taylor and Hannah Brown explore Eurovision’s new hosting rules, Israel’s Oscar hopes with Tell Me Everything, and the country’s complicated relationship with international film festivals.

Oscar hopes and Eurovision: Cultural challenges Israel faces next year.
‘TELL ME EVERYTHING’S 16 Ophir nominations are the highest total received by any movie in the history of the awards. The film tells the coming-of-age story of a boy who discovers his father is gay at the height of the AIDS epidemic and who reconnects with him later in life.

‘Tell Me Everything’ leads 2026 Ophir Awards race with record 16 nominations

RICHARD TRANK with his Oscar, at home in Herzliya.

After chronicling Jewish history, Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Trank begins new life in Israel

Kennedy Center Honors recipient actor Sylvester Stallone poses on the red carpet for the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, US, December 7, 2025.

Still Rocky after all these years: Beloved actor Sylvester Stallone celebrates 80th birthday


No punches pulled at the 94th Academy Awards

Smith’s comments were censored when he returned to his seat, but it was apparent that he told Rock, “Keep my wife’s name out your f***king mouth.”

 Will Smith (right) strikes Chris Rock onstage during the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday.

Oscars 2022: the most memorable Jewish moments

Overall it was not a good night for Jewish nominees, as high-profile figures like Steven Spielberg, Andrew Garfield and Maggie Gyllenhaal came away empty-handed.

 The cast of CODA hold their award for Best Picture in the press room during the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, March 27, 2022.

Picking the Oscars in a year when movies were more virtuous than vivid

Although there have been some wonderful movies this year, many were more virtuous than vivid, a trend that started years ago but seems to be intensifying.

'BELFAST'

Watching WeWork crash, Oscar-winning movies and popcorn flicks - TV Time

How could a company that rents out desks ever be valued at anything close to this huge sum, you might wonder?

 ‘WE CRASHED’

Quo Vadis, Aida?: A moving story of the Bosnian War - review

Its release at this moment is a stark reminder that there was a horrific European war not that long ago.

 SCENES FROM Jasmila Zbanic’s ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’

Spielberg, Gyllenhaal, Garfield among 2022 Jewish Oscar nominees

Spielberg, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Andrew Garfield were the most prominent Jews to nab Oscar nods this year.

 Actor Andrew Garfield attends a premiere screening for "Tick, Tick... Boom" during the opening night of AFI Fest at TCL Chinese theatre in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 10, 2021.

Sidney Poitier, first Black actor to win best actor Academy Award, dies at 94

Poitier created a distinguished film legacy in a single year with three 1967 films at a time when segregation prevailed in much of the United States.

 FILE PHOTO: Actor Sidney Poitier arrives at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West Hollywood

'Camp Confidential', a film by Israeli directors, makes Oscar shortlist

Being on the shortlist of 15 films means that an Israeli movie may become one of the five Oscar nominees in its category.

2020 Oscars statues

Film on World War II Resistance fighter wins Best Documentary Short Oscar

Israeli film 'White Eye' and Palestinian film 'The Present' were both nominated for Best Live Action Short Film, but lost to 'Two Distant Strangers.'

cover - Oscars 2020

Diverse and distanced Oscar ceremony adapted to pandemic year

Nomadland, a poetic look at older Americans who choose an itinerant lifestyle, won Best Picture as expected.

Chloe Zhao, winner of the award for Best Picture for "Nomadland," poses in the press room at the Oscars, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 25, 2021.