Oscars

‘Tell Me Everything’ leads 2026 Ophir Awards race with record 16 nominations

The Ophir Awards ceremony will take place on September 9 at Cinema City Glilot, hosted by Shani Cohen and Adam Gabay, and will be broadcast live on Mako.

‘TELL ME EVERYTHING’S 16 Ophir nominations are the highest total received by any movie in the history of the awards. The film tells the coming-of-age story of a boy who discovers his father is gay at the height of the AIDS epidemic and who reconnects with him later in life.
RICHARD TRANK with his Oscar, at home in Herzliya.

After chronicling Jewish history, Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Trank begins new life in Israel

Kennedy Center Honors recipient actor Sylvester Stallone poses on the red carpet for the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, US, December 7, 2025.

Still Rocky after all these years: Beloved actor Sylvester Stallone celebrates 80th birthday

Lior Raz

Lior Raz says Israelis in Hollywood are 'simply not afraid' at Tel Aviv Tuner premiere


Palestinian films make the Oscar shortlists, as Israeli hopefuls are passed over

Yariv Mozer’s We Will Dance Again, a hard-hitting film about the massacre at the Supernova music festival, was one of the eligible films that was passed over this year.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen in an interrogation room (illustrative)

Cannes surprise winner 'Anora' to screen at Haifa Film Festival

Films starring Selena Gomez, Demi Moore, and Jesse Eisenberg will also be screened.

 Selena Gomez in 'Emilia Perez'

Israeli filmmaker Tom Nesher channels her grief into her new movie ‘Come Closer’

The movie tells the story of Eden (Lia Elalouf), a reckless, troubled young Tel Aviv woman still very attached to her younger brother, Nati (Ido Tako), and her struggle to cope after his death.

 TOM NESHER: For my generation, 18-30, everyone knows someone who died this year. Everyone.

151 Jewish creatives sign letter supporting Jonathan Glazer's Oscar speech

The report comes only a few weeks after 1,200 Jewish creatives pinned a letter denouncing Glazer's speech.

 Jonathan Glazer poses on the red carpet during the Oscars arrivals at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024.

Jonathan Glazer's Oscars speech slammed by 1,200 Jewish Hollywood stars, creators

The letter says that "The use of words like ‘occupation’ to describe an indigenous Jewish people defending a homeland that dates back thousands of years distorts history."

 Director Jonathan Glazer poses with the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for "The Zone of Interest" of United Kingdom in the Oscars photo room at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, US, March 10, 2024.

Glazer desecrated the memory of millions of Jews - opinion

As I said then, placing Hitler into context is like placing cancer into context instead of realizing cancer for what it really is: a horrible, deadly disease.

 Director Jonathan Glazer poses with the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for "The Zone of Interest" of United Kingdom in the Oscars photo room at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024.

Hollywood is failing Jewish-Americans despite a history together - opinion

Far from Jews controlling Hollywood, it would seem that in order to get ahead, they must bury their Jewishness, or else prostrate to antisemites.

 BILLIE EILISH, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, and others wore a pin of a red hand at the Oscars (left), failing to understand that the red hand is a symbol of the red hands of Aziz Salha after he killed two Jews in a lynching in Ramallah in 2000 (right.)

‘Zone of Interest’ producer calls Oscars speech a ‘distraction,’ as Auschwitz memorial defends it

Even as Danny Cohen took Glazer’s speech to task, another major voice in the debate has also weighed in — supporting Glazer.

  Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Letters to the editor, March 13, 2024: Not a world expert

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Jonathan Glazer is just a useful idiot for the enemies of the Jewish people - opinion

As Jewish history teaches us, there will always be “useful [Jewish] idiots” like Jonathan Glazer, and some of the dangerous anti-Zionists will be Jewish.

 Jonathan Glazer poses on the red carpet during the Oscars arrivals at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024.