Academy awards

Oscar-nominated Iranian screenwriter released from prison in northern Iran after 17 days - report

Mehdi Mahmoudian, who is nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay for Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, was imprisoned after he signed a letter condemning Khamenei.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Mehdi Mahmoudian, Oscar-nominated co-writer of Jafar Panahi’s "It was just an accident."
Actor Robert Duvall arrives for the world premiere of Widows at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada, September 8, 2018.

Godfather actor Robert Duvall dies aged 95

Duvall passed away peacefully, aged 95, on Sunday, his family announced on Monday.

|ByJAMES GENN
Omar Sameer Mahamid stars in Meyer Levinson-Blount's Butcher's Stain, a short film that has received an Oscar nomination.

Israeli film Butcher's Stain receives an Oscar nomination in Best Live Action Short category

Butcher’s Stain has already won a Silver Medal in the Narrative category at the 2025 Student Academy Awards, an important achievement for a filmmaker at the beginning of his career.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Recipients of the HIT Special Appreciation Award with Chairman of the Board Pini Cohen, HIT President Prof. Eduard Yakubov, Dr. Barkan, and CEO Samuel Goldberg.

HIT Holon Institute of Technology presents its first Special Appreciation Awards

Institute honors leading figures and organizations for advancing academia, industry, innovation, and community impact

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Oscars 2020: Who gets your vote?

With the Oscars just around the corner, which nominee should get a much-converted award?

FEBRUARY 5, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Oscar statue is pictured during a media preview of this year's Academy's Governors Ball in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 31, 2020.

The Oscars go epic: Predictions for the 2020 Academy Awards

The Oscars will be awarded on February 9 (February 10 at 3 a.m. in Israel) and will be broadcast live on YES.

FEBRUARY 5, 2020ByHANNAH BROWN
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Artur Brauner, German-Jewish producer of ‘Europa Europa,’ dies at 100

In 2010, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel named a new media center for Brauner. He reportedly called the recognition “the crowning achievement of my film career.”

JULY 10, 2019ByTOBY AXELROD/JTA
Bettina Bernhard, Artur Brauner and his daughter Alice Brauner arrive for screening of the movie Isle of dogs at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, February 15, 2018.