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‘Zone of Interest’ Follows History of Holocaust Films at the Oscars
Jonathan Glazer’s 'The Zone of Interest' is the latest in a long line of Oscar-nominated movies about the Holocaust or its aftermath.
In 2009, shortly after Kate Winslet won a Golden Globe for her performance as a former Auschwitz guard in “The Reader,” presenter Ricky Gervais pointed to her in the audience and deadpanned, “I told ya, do a Holocaust movie; the awards come.” By the late 1950s and early ’60s, “enough time had passed after World War II for ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ and ‘Judgement at Nuremberg’ to be released and respectfully received,” she continues, mentioning films that were nominated for the top prize in 1960 and ’62 and won in other categories. She adds that, while some projects, like director Frank Pierson’s 2001 televised movie “Conspiracy” about the Wannsee Conference, were “straightforward depictions,” others like “The Reader” “explored the moral failings of those on the wrong side of history.”
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