Despite the pro-Palestinian protests taking place outside and the number of politically charged films up for awards, Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony was a remarkably politics-light affair — with one major exception.

Accepting the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film for his harrowing Holocaust film The Zone of Interest, director Jonathan Glazer took a stance against the state of Israel’s ongoing military bombardment of Gaza as part of the Israel-Hamas war. Glazer, who is Jewish, made a simple and straightforward through line from his film, which is about the literal banality of evil, to the present day.

“All our choices we made........

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