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Response continues to The Zone of Curiosity director Jonathan Glazer‘s acceptance speech after his movie gained the Oscar for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie this month.
About 475 Jewish present enterprise professionals have signed a letter denouncing the filmmaker’s speech, inn which he decried the “dehumanization” of the October 7 assault on Israel by Hamas.
“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the aim of drawing an ethical equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of individuals, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its personal extermination,” the letter states (learn it in full in full under).
You possibly can watch Glazer’s speech right here, or learn the transcript under.
Impressed loosely by Martin Amis’ 2014 novel and set outdoors the partitions of Auschwitz through the Holocaust, the UK-produced German-language movie The Zone of Curiosity stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller as Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his spouse Hedwig, as they attempt to construct a dream life for his or her household in a home and backyard separated from the Nazi focus and extermination camp by a solely a brief wall. What is occurring on the opposite aspect is never hinted at.
Right here is the record of signatories to the open letter, adopted by the letter itself and a transcript of Glazer’s Oscarcast speech:
Eli Roth Director/ScreenwriterMichael B. Kaplan WGADaniel Rosenberg WGAeIlana Wernick WGA Author-ProducerJennifer Smith GMS (Guild Of Music Supervisors) Music SupervisorJeremy Drysdale WGA ScreenwriterStuart Acher Director/WriterRochel Saks ManagerAmy Engelberg WGASammy Horowitz WGA WriterDavid Bickel WGA Author/ProducerCindy KaplanEllie Kadosh ActressAriella Blejer WGAKevin AschClifford J. Inexperienced WGAW ScreenwriterJamie Denbo WGA, SAG-AFTRA CO-EP Gray’s AnatomyMandy Mitchell Wardrobe StylistJon Weinbach President, Skydance SportsLoni Steele Sosthand WGA Author, ProducerBradley J. Fischer Producers Guild of America ProducerMatthew HiltzikRyan Guiterman Author-DirectorJeff Fierson PGA ProducerJacey Stamler 705 Wardrobe SupervisorDiego ChojkierNeil A. CohenLeslie Schapira WGA Author/ProducerAmanda Markowitz SAG/AFTRA, PGAMatti Leshem WGA Author, ProducerJennifer jason leighStephanie Liss WGAW, DRAMATISTS GUILD WriterShira Yoram ProducerRaymond Leon Roker CreatorShira Rosenfeld Artistic producerRoss Novie DGA Director / 1st ADAlex Horn Writer and EditorAri AckermanKeetgi Kogan Steinberg WGA Author/Producer/ShowrunnerAdam Berkowitz None Supervisor/Producer/Strategic AdvisorAdam RosenbergBen Mor DGA DirectorLisa Ullmann Producer and Social ImpactJenn Levine Author / ProducerDan Signer WGADanna RosenthalMichael MaloneBart ColemanDan AdlerRakefet Abergel SAG AFTRAJeremy Garelick WGA/DGAJonathan Jakubowicz Wga Author & DirectorDavid Shore WGAW DGARon Rappaport WGAElon Gold WGA SAG/AFTRA Comic/Actor/WriterJay Kogen wga, dga, sag-aftra WRITER/Producer/DirectorDana Min GoodmanJeff Rake WGA Author/ShowrunnerMimi Steinberg Author/producerGolan Ramraz author/producerBrett Gursky Author / Director / ProducerRon West Thruline EntertainmentJennifer Maisel WGA Playwright/ScreenwriterAlan R. Cohen WGABob BookmanDavid Kendall WGA/DGAMichael GloubermanGregg Simon DGA DirectorShaked Berenson pgaA.M. Driver SAGJohn AltmanGary Barber Spyglass Media GroupLeo PearlmanAri Frenkel SAG Actor / FilmmakerSepideh Makabi DirectorJoe PearlmanDanny Manus Author, Script ConsultantMarni FlansMark Moskowitz ProducerNick Greene SAGAvi Liberman SAG/AftraWendy Engelberg WGAJeremy Elice WriterHope Levy Sag Aftra ActressDavid Renzer Artistic Group for PeaceBob Kushell WGAJeremy Aluma SDC Theatre Director & ProducerNathan FirerBecky Tahel PGA, SAG-E Producer, Author, ActressKevin Vibrant DGA Producer/DirectorJoel MichaelySamuel Franco WGAShani Atias SAG AFTRA ActressDavid AbrookinTamar Simon BAFTA Movie Distributor and PublicistDavid Kohan WGA Author-ProducerGil GoldscheinD.M. Harring WGAZusha Goldin Celeb PhotographerLee Broda SAG AND PGA Producer and actressGuri Weinberg SAG/AFTRA ActorEli Steele ProducerDavid Worth TV Academy Govt ProducerJeff HandelHoward Rosenman SAGAFTRA MOVIE & TV PRODUCERJulianna Margulies SAG-AFTRA ActorMichael SobelLisa Edelstein SAG/AFTRA, DGA, WGA Actor, director, writerSami Kolko SAG AFTRA Actor / ProducerJennifer Shakeshaft SAG SelfTraci SzymanskiRobert Lantos PGA ProducerLee TrinkBill Freiberger WGA WriterTiffany Haimof Wasserman / Senior Director, Enterprise AffairsScott RosenbaumSari Sanchez SAG-AFTRA Actor/ WriterMichael KonyvesJeff Astrof WGA Author/ShowrunnerClaudine Jakubowicz Movie ProducerMichael Diamond Expertise Supervisor / MGMT EntertainmentSalvador LitvakMichael Borkow WGAMichael Pelmont ManagerJosh Silver Private managerAlex Lebovici ProducerRob Lee PGAAlex FosterAnnie Wooden WGA/SAG/AFTRA Actor/Author/ArtistNoa Tishby SAG AuthorMandana DayaniMitchell Akselrad WGARobyn BluestoneAdam Goldworm Supervisor/ProducerSeth FisherCaitlin Gold ProducerAaron Erol Ozlevi DirectorSeth Kurland WGA Author/ProducerJonathan Herman WGAFred Raskin ACE Movie EditorGabriela Tscherniak DGA DirectorSophie Kargman DGA DirectorJoel H. Cohen WGAMikhail Nayfeld Heroes and Villains EntertainmentDaniel Lehrer WGA WriterSusan Rudick SAG-AFTRA ActorJeremy Lehrer-Graiwer WGA WriterDanny Weiss WGAEric Tuchman WGA writer-producerMark Reisman WGALanie SiegelKaren Morse WGA ScreenwriterJason A. Kessler WGA ScreenwriterMichael Rapaport Actor/DisruptorDaniel Grindlinger WGA WriterPhyllis Robust WGATamara Becher-Wilkinson WGABarbara Garshman WGAE Garshman Productions LLVJoshua Katz WGAAriel Vromen DGA FilmMakerAlyssa Hill WGA ScreenwriterInon Shampanier WGAJessica Leventhal WGAScott Rosenfelt WGA, DGA Author/Producer/DirectorFernando SzewAdam NewmanMichal SchickAdam Waltuch TelevisaUnivisionBess Kargman DGA DirectorJoelle Boucai WGAJill Kargman WGA/SAGJodi Lieberman Expertise ManagerJeremy Garelick dga / wgaAaron Fishman DGA Producer / DirectorRob Kutner WGA Author-ProducerJoe WeisbergJason Newman Supervisor / Untitled EntertainmentJoel Fields WGADena Waxman Govt Producer / WriterMatt Ritter SAG Screenwriter/Producer/ActorMax JacobyKeith Eisner WGA ShowrunnerStacy Sarner The Walt Disney CompanyZiba TerrioKeren Hantman 1st ADAriel NishliAlly Shuster AgentBruce Burger Music Producer and Recording Artist, RebbeSoulMelissa ZukermanGail Berman PGA ProducerAlex MeitnerDavid HaringPam Reynolds AMPAS / Govt department Amazon MGM StudiosMarc Guggenheim WGA, DGA, PGA, Animation Guild Author/ProducerJJ Adler Dga DirectorNancy Spielberg ProducerM.J. Kang WGA, SAG-AFTRA Author, ActorOren Safdie WGA ST. OLAF COLLEGEPaul A Mendelson WGGB Screenwriter and authorStacey Tenenbaum CSAJonny Caplan WGA Unattainable MediaDavid Grae WGAJonathan BaruchBarry Schkolnick WGA Author/Producer/CreatorMarty Adelstein PGA Tomorrow StudiosMenachem Silverstein ComedianDavid Zabel WGASimcha Jacobovici FilmmakerScott KaufmanDebra Messing SAG/AFTRA Actor/ProducerBarbie Kligman WGABrett Gelman Actor and WriterPeter Lenkov WGACarl Schwaber SAG-AFTRAMark Feuerstein SAG, DGA, WGA ActorJosie Davis SAG/AFTRADeena Stern Leisure Advertising and marketing ExecutiveSteven E Gordon 839 and 800 Director Wild CanaryAlex Anhalt Sugar23Rabbi Steve Leser Wilshire Boulevard TempleLeonard DickGeoffrey Cantor SAG-AFTRA ActorTara Robust SAG/ACTRA ActressRona GellerAlida Michql AEASusan RovnerLaurie Seidman Producers Guild ProducerAndrew Stearn PGA ProducerBatia Parnass SAG AFTRALynn Harris PGA:AMPAS ProducerRoger Kumble WGARobert Rovner WGA Author/ProducerJared SleisengerDavid Brandes WGA writerYuval David SAGAFTRA, AEA Actor, Director, JournalistKate Cohen DGA, PGA Producer/DirectorEric Feig Leisure AttorneyLaurie Israel WGA, TAGJessica Swap PGA ProducerAri AradMelissa Byer WGARebecca Mall CMOLynn Roth WGA, DGA Author/Director/ProducerEric FinemanJonny Umansky WGA ScreenwriterDaniella Rabbani SAG AFTRA AEA ActorFranklyn Gottbetter DGA ProducerAdam Friedman Artistic Artists AgencyJaime BeckerYahm Steinberg ActorSteven Marmalstein WGALana Melman Authors Guild WriterChuck Slavin SAG-AFTRA ActorMatthew Salsberg wga author producerAvram Butch Kaplan DGA Jamsea Productions, IncJack Plotnick SAG/AFTRA ActorStephen Levinson WGA-ESheer Aviram Actress / Author / DirectorBenjamin GoberEvan Silver DGA Director / WriterDan Marshall SAG-AFTRAJustin Arnold SAG-AFTRA ActorAviva Pressman AEA, SAGHannah TuberNancy Cohen WGA Author/ProducerRachel Kamerman Artwork Administrators Guild native #800James Beaman SAG/AFTRA Actor/WriterJeff Greenberg GershMiranda Bailey Sag – pga – academy member Chilly iron picturesAriyela Wald-Cohain CDG 892 COSTUME DESIGNERPamela Davis WGAPaul Weitzman Literary AgentSeth Rudetsky Sag/Aftra, WGA East Actor, radio host, author, musicianBruce Goldstein The Cat in ManhattanDave Chameides Native 600 and DGA Digital camera OperatorBrian LiebmanDan BirnbaumJonah Platt WGA, SAGTamar PelzigDanielle Pretsfelder Demchick CSA Casting DirectorVictoria GordonKadia Saraf SAG and WGA-E Actor and WriterDiane Robin SagAllan Spielman MEMBER OF RETRO69, WOODTSOCK TRIBUTE MUSICIAN AND COMPOTER DEVELOPERHeshy Rosenwasser Musician and songwriter / The Hesh Inc.Tiffany Lo WGAJamie BialkowerGeorge Gallagher SAG-AFTRASam Sandak WGA Author / ProducerGeoff Silverman Producers the Cartel Literary ManagementTerry Serpico SAG AFTRA, WGAE Actor, Author,DirectorJaime Eliezer Karas DGALev L. Spiro DGA DirectorJoey Jupiter-Levin SAG/Aftra Fi-Core ActressRhonda PriceRod Lurie DGA, WGAGail Katz PGA ProducerMichael Berns WGA Author/ProducerYuri Rutman SAGCory Richman Supervisor / Liebman EntertainmentMichael Lewis AgentRachel SeymourMelissa Rosenberg WGA ShowrunnerAlex Litvak WGA WriterNoam Ash Author, actorJan Oxenberg WGAAmy Sherman-Palladino WGA / DGA Author/director/producerRosser Goodman PGA Circle ContentYael Swerdlow Video Recreation Trade CEO/Founder Maestro Video games SPCDavid N. Weiss WGA Author-DirectorBen Youthful WGA/DGAMargrit Polak Expertise ManagerRina Mimoun WGAPatrick Moss WGAMicky Levy WGA Author/DirectorDavid Lipper SAG Actor, author, director, producerSamantha Ettus Founder, 2024 New VoicesBen Levin LINK EntertainmentCarolyn NewmanHannah Louise Shearer WGAw WriterGail Goldberg CSA Casting DirectorRebecca Thomas AgentAlissa VradenburgPo Kutchins ShowrunnerJonathan Prince WGA, DGA, SAGHoward Michael Gould WriterMelissa Heart Actor, FilmmakerJudy Gols Sag/Aftra, WGA, Actors EquityCameron CurtisMaya LasryShir SamariAvital LevySarah Afkami WGA WriterAlon AranyaSam Feuer SAG/AFTRA Actor/ProducerBruce ResnikoffOri Elon Shtisel ScreenwriterJeremy Padow ScreenwriterDeborah MarcusBetsy Borns WGAW Author/ProducerCraig Singer p.g.a. ProducerJudie Aronson SAG-AFTRABeth Milstein WGAW WriterFrederic RichterJerry Weil SAG-AFTRA ActorDena Roth Ampas Set decoratorRachel Kaplan PGAAsher WeinbergerScott Mitchell Rosenberg CEO, Platinum Studios Inc.Marci Liroff AMPAS Intimacy CoordinationLeslie Belzberg AMPAS, PGA Self EmployedAdam KulbershSharon Bialy CSA, Academy of Movement Footage Member Casting DirectorMichael AuerbachSharon Lieblein CSA, teamsters native 399 Casting DirectorSharona BeckDaniel Kaufman DGA DirectorMark Pellegrino SAG ActorLimor Gott ProducerAnna April-RossOphira Dagan ProducerHank Steinberg WGA / DGA Author / Director / ProducerRabbi David Wolpe Sinai Temple/ Harvard UEstelle LasherErez Rosenberg Lawyer / Associate at Jackoway Austen et alNatalie Shampanier WGAJarred Weisfeld PublishingCarmi ZlotnikTovah Feldshuh SAG-AFTRA-EQUITY ACTORRotem Alima Govt ProducerScott Melrose Expertise AgentDan Kaufman VFX Supervisor/VFX ProducerMoran Atias SAG Actress producerEmmanuelle Chriqui Sag ActorBarbara Lazaroff ASID Industrial designer, restaurateur, businesswomanIddo Goldberg SAG ActorEsther NetterJordan Roberts SAG-AFTRA Actor & Producer, Content material CreatorJay ShoreShanni Suissa CEO, Jews Discuss JusticeScott Levine DGA ProducerAndrea caytonVincent LeGrowArt Levitt SelfAliza J. SokolowChava Floryn Filmmaker/Actress Twin Rose MediaRami Rivera Frankl DGABarbara Heller SAG Actor author producerShauna Perlman AgentJeremy Goldscheider ProducerJonathan RosenKen Hertz Hertz Lichtenstein Younger & PolkLea Porter The Beverly Hills EstatesLorin GreenGinette Rhodes SAG AFTRA AEASue SteinbergJodi Fleisher SAG/Aftra ActorKimberly Wallis SAG/AFTRA ActorAvital Onn Shachar Enterprise AffairsOdeya RushStella Evans SelfCraig Emanuel Leisure ExecutiveElyssa Nicole TrustDavid S. Rosenthal WGALoris Kramer Lunsford ProducerKory Lunsford ProducerDani MenkinRabbi Marvin HierAllison LahavRaphael MargulesMicha Liberman 700 editors guild Proprietor Thoughts Meld ArtsShep Rosenman AttorneyLee Weinberg Weinberg Gonser LLPJosh Schaer WGA TV author / producerJohn FogelmanMontana TuckerLori Alan SAG-AFTRA Actress/producer/writerMelissa Greenspan Sag-aftraRoss GreenbergBruce Franklin DGA ProducerHoward Reichman Producer/directorSpencer Berman ProducerDavid Fury WGA/DGA/SAG-AFTRA Spherical Swamp EntertainmentRinat ArinosWendy Sachs WGA Director/ProducerElin Hampton WGA/SAG-AFTRA Spherical Swamp EntertainmentAndrea Barros RetiredLinda Burstyn WGARabbi Yonah BooksteinMarcus J Freed SAG-eBonnie Greenberg Music supervisor/producer/professorShie Rozow Movement Image Editors Guild Composer, Music EditorDan Redfeld AFM Native 47 ComposerOmri LahavLior Rosner ASCAP Rosner Music Inc.Eitan Chitayat Artistic DirectorRobin Lippin Native 399 and CSA casting directorJason Venokur WGASaul BlinkoffJoanie Leeds Recording AcademyJeffrey Braer Former SAG/AFTRA Impartial Author/Producer & Theme Park DeveloperRena Strober Sag-Aftra ActorLiron ArtziAriella NoveckGary Gilbert Gilbert FilmsLeah GottfriedBrian FrazerDaniel Alcheh SCLDebi PomerantzAmy Straus WGA WriterInbal B. Lessner ACE Govt Producer/EditorIvan Menchell Writers Guild Author/ProducerMark SchiffJon PolkRahman Daneshgar RetiredSam Wasserman Producers Guild, Academy of Tv ProducerCaryn Osofsky SAG SAG actress and directorAndrew AvnerDavid KekstBen Cosgrove CEO, Leviathan ProductionsHawk Koch PGA, DGA, AMPAS ProducerJulie D. Holman WIFT Impartial movie, Director, author, and producerMichael Robertson MooreJamie Elman SAG, WGA YidLife CrisisRobert KaplanJo LaMond WGA SelfBenjamin RapoportJacob Fenton UTA AgentNatalie Marciano President/ ProducerCarin Sage EVP, Characteristic Movie, Skydance ProdsTracy-Ann Oberman ActorLawrence Bender ProducerAmy Pascal ProducerSherry Lansing ProducerDoug Mankoff Producer
STATEMENT FROM JEWISH HOLLYWOOD PROFESSIONALSWe are Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals. We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the aim of drawing an ethical equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of individuals, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its personal extermination. Each civilian loss of life in Gaza is tragic. Israel is just not focusing on civilians. It’s focusing on Hamas. The second Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders, is the second this heartbreaking battle ends. This has been true because the Hamas assaults of October seventh.Using phrases like “occupation” to explain an indigenous Jewish folks defending a homeland that dates again hundreds of years, and has been acknowledged as a state by the United Nations, distorts historical past.It provides credence to the trendy blood libel that fuels a rising anti-Jewish hatred all over the world, in america, and in Hollywood. The present local weather of rising antisemitism solely underscores the necessity for the Jewish State of Israel, a spot which can at all times take us in, as no state did through the Holocaust depicted in Mr. Glazer’s movie.
Jonathan Glazer: Thanks a lot. I’m going to learn, I’m afraid.Thanks to the Academy for this honor and to our companions A24 Movies for entry and Polish Movie Institute, to the Stead Museum for his or her belief and steerage, to my producers, actors, collaborators.All our decisions had been made to mirror and confront us within the current, to not say look what they did then, however reasonably look what we do now.Our movie reveals the place dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s formed all of our previous and current. Proper now, we stand right here as males who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to battle for therefore many harmless folks.Whether or not the victims of October — whether or not the victims of October the seventh in Israel or the continued assault on Gaza, all of the victims of this dehumanization, how can we resist? Alexandria, the lady who glows within the movie as she did in life, selected to. I dedicate this to her reminiscence and her resistance. Thanks.
Selection first posted the information on the open letter.