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Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Gere, More Denounce Oscars’ Response to ‘No Other Land’ Director Attack
Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Gere signed a letter criticizing the Oscars' response to reported assault on Hamdan Ballal, who won for 'No Other Land.'
“We stand in condemnation of the brutal assault and unlawful detention of Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal by settlers and Israeli forces in the West Bank,” read the letter. The letter was signed by over 680 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from across genres, including Raul Castillo, Sandra Oh, Ava DuVernay, Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem, along with dozens of documentarians. Yuval Abraham, one of the Israeli co-directors on the film, criticized the response, comparing it to the “ rightfully strong ” message the Academy sent after six Iranian filmmakers had been arrested for their work.
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