Last night, the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles hosted the 96th edition of the Oscars, which crowned Oppenheimer as the best film of the year by awarding it seven awards, including best film, best direction, best actor and best supporting actor.
For its part, the film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Poor Creatures took home four statuettes (best actress, best costume design, best production design and best makeup and hair design) and Anatomy of a Fall settled for a more than well-deserved award. for best original screenplay.
Although many believed that Bayona and his acclaimed film The Snow Society would win the Oscar for best international film, the award went to Jonathan Glazer, director of The Hot Spot. The filmmaker used his acceptance speech to remember the victims of the Holocaust (the subject of the film) and to reflect on war and conflict.
The director read the note he had prepared with his producer, Jonathan Wilson, who is also Jewish, and moved those present with some crude words that condemned any type of violence: ”All our decisions (when making the film ) sought to reflect and confront us in the present. Not to say ‘look what they did then’, but ‘look what we do now’. “Our film shows where dehumanization takes us.”
”Now we stand here as men who refuse to have their Judaism and the Holocaust hijacked by an occupation that has driven so many innocent people into conflict, whether the victims of October 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack carried out in Gaza,” the Englishman declared to the deafening applause of those present.
To conclude his intervention, the British filmmaker dedicated the film to the memory of a woman named Alexandria who collaborated with the Polish resistance at just 12 years old and whose memories have been used to make the film.
Thousands of people around the world have celebrated the director’s speech at an event as important as the Oscars. However, many other users on the network have criticized Glazer for comparing the episodes of October 7 with the massive bombing that the Gazan population systematically suffers.
”Glazer’s speech is good, but a little tiring that to mention anything in relation to Gaza you have to talk about October 7 and put it in terms minimally similar to what has been happening since then,” ” Jonathan Glazer’s impeccable speech at the Oscars”, ”This is what’s worth it”, etc. are some of the comments that can be read on platforms like X (previously known as Twitter).
