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Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech condemned by Son of Saul director: ‘He should have stayed silent’

In a statement shared with the Guardian, László Nemes says The Zone of Interest director’s speech ‘resorted to talking points disseminated by propaganda meant to eradicate all Jewish presence’

Speaking at the ceremony on Sunday, Glazer said he and his producer, James Wilson, “stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza.” Photograph: Courtesy of A24“When Jon and I started, back in 2014, to talk about this, about making a film on this subject,” Wilson told the Hollywood Reporter, “we of course knew Schindler’s List and Son of Saul and everything in between. Nemes, who was born in Budapest and has lived in Paris, London and New York but remains based in Hungary, suggested Glazer’s words at the Oscars were symptomatic of a world view or “maybe even a collective psychosis” common to “totalitarian political regimes and repressive religious fanaticism”.

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