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Israeli settler kills Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film

A prominent Palestinian activist who had worked on an Oscar-winning documentary died on Monday after being shot by a Jewish settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to local journalists and officials. Odeh Hathalin, who was a consultant on “No Other Land,” a film that documents Israeli settler and military attacks on the West Bank …

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Egypt Independent July 29, 2025

Oscar-winning Palestinian director of ‘No Other Land’ released from Israeli detention after being assaulted

The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, taken away by Israeli soldiers and detained overnight, according to his family, friends, colleagues, eyewitnesses and lawyer. On Tuesday afternoon, following his release from detention, Ballal’s lawyer Leah Tzemel said that he had …

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Egypt Independent March 28, 2025

Israel’s culture minister calls a Palestinian-Israeli film’s Oscar a ‘sad moment’

From left: Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham pose with their Oscar awards for best documentary for

NPR NEWS March 4, 2025

Watch: 2025 Oscar nominations come out this morning

Al Seib/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images Comedians Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott will announce nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards on

NPR NEWS January 24, 2025

Oscar-winning director calls out ‘hijacking’ of Holocaust by Israel in acceptance speech

Oscar-winning director calls out ‘hijacking’ of Holocaust by Israel in acceptance speech Jonathan Glazer called for people to resist the

Middle East Eye March 12, 2024

Oscar highlights: ‘Oppenheimer’ wins big, while Ryan Gosling and past winner cameos stole the show

CNN — The Oscar telecast always juggles three major objectives: Honoring the year’s best films and those who made them; broadly celebrating and promoting the movie-going habit; and putting on a good show, both for the bigwigs in the theater and the folks at home. The second one of those priorities has taken on greater …

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Egypt Independent March 12, 2024

Oscar-winning actor-turned-politician Glenda Jackson dies, aged 87

Actor Glenda Jackson, a two-time Oscar winner who won acclaim for playing an English queen but later served as a socialist politician in the British parliament for 23 years, has … Continued

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The New Daily June 15, 2023

‘Making history again’: Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh’s sweet link to iconic Moomba Festival

Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh’s surprise connection to Melbourne has been revealed, a day after she made Academy Award history. Video footage surfaced from the ABC archives on Tuesday, showing Malaysian-born Yeoh … Continued

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The New Daily March 14, 2023

‘Top Gun’ and ‘Avatar’ could attract more Oscar viewers. Will Academy voters help themselves?

Attention, Oscar voters: Not to tell you your business, but if you want more people to watch the show – and can’t rely, hopefully, on somebody slapping the host again – you can help yourselves by nominating movies people have actually seen, starting with the year’s top blockbusters, “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Top …

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Egypt Independent January 25, 2023