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Over 600 Oscars Voters Sign Letter Criticizing Academy Silence on Hamdan Ballal
Riz Ahmed, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jonathan Glazer are among the AMPAS members standing by the No Other Land director.
It is indefensible for an organization to recognize a film with an award in the first week of March, and then fail to defend its filmmakers just a few weeks later.” Notable signatories include Alfonso Cuarón, Riz Ahmed, Mark Ruffalo, Penélope Cruz, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Todd Haynes, Olivia Colman, and Joaquin Phoenix. Also among them is Jonathan Glazer, the director of the Holocaust drama Zone of Interest, who spoke out against Israel’s “dehumanization” of Gaza in his 2024 Oscars speech. “The statement by Bill Kramer and Janet Yang fell far short of the sentiments this moment calls for,” it reads.
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