Sunday, March 05, 2006
Lobbying really DOES work, go figure!
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Paradise Now fails to win the Oscar for best foreign film, much to the delight of the pro-Israeli community who lobbied hard against it.
From February 25:
"The Academy has many Jewish voters, and some have said they will not vote for a Palestinian film at a time when a declared enemy of Israel is taking power in the West Bank and Gaza. "
Oscar's foreign films make strange bedfellows
From February 26:
Yediyot Achronot, Israel's largest daily paper, is equally out front with its reporting on efforts of "influential Israelis and Jews in Hollywood" to make sure that the film's surprise win at the Golden Globes is not repeated on March 5. "Members of the academy," it assures its readers in Hebrew, "have been under heavy pressure not to vote for the film."
Middle East tensions hang over Palestinian nominee for an Oscar
From February 26:
The nomination probably won't be rescinded, but with 70 being the median academy voter age, and Judaism the predominant religion, it is something of a surprise, even to insiders, that the film has been nominated at all, let alone that it is a strong prospect to win.
Suicide bomb film set to shake Oscars
Munich won zero oscars. The moral to the story: you do not question Israel in Hollywood.
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