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Tony Kushner Defends Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Speech as an ‘Unimpeachable, Irrefutable Statement’ About the Israel-Hamas War
Screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner has defended the Oscar acceptance speech of director Jonathan Glazer against critics.
While accepting the Academy Award for best international feature for his Holocaust movie “The Zone of Interest,” Glazer spoke about the ongoing violence in the Middle East, saying the Auschwitz-set film “shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. The speech has been met with both kudos on social media and dissent in the industry, including an open letter from over 1,000 Jewish creatives and execs denouncing his words. Kushner, who he himself has received four Academy Awards nominations for “Munich,” “Lincoln” and “The Fabelmans,” was a guest on Wednesday’s episode of “Haaretz Podcast.” When asked about the speech, he said Glazer’s words were an “unimpeachable, irrefutable statement.”
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