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Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Speech Is Latest In Long Line Of Academy Award Political Controversies – A Look Back


Sparked by outcry over Jonathan Glazer's speech, here is a look back at Oscar political controversies over the years.

With the industry names signing on to a letter growing to reportedly a near 1,000 (and counting) condemning The Zone ff Interest director Jonathan Glazer ‘s very controversialOscar acceptance speech, it looks to be taking on a life of its own since the March 10 Academy Awards, where his universally praised movie won the Best International Film Oscar and was nominated for four others including Best Picture. Appearing as presenters for Best Film Editing in 1993, then-couple Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins (pictured) went off script and infuriated Oscar producer Gil Cates by making an unrelated political statement about 200 HIV-infected Haitian refugees being held at Guantanamo Bay. At the 1975 ceremony, the anti-Vietnam War documentary Hearts and Minds won, prompting producer Bert Schneider to use his acceptance to read aloud a telegram from the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace talks that thanked the U.S. antiwar movement for all their help.

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