{"id":4485,"date":"2012-12-24T18:51:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T00:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2012-12-24T18:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T00:51:35","slug":"israeli-oscar-entry-eliminated-from-contention-one-more-still-in-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israeli-oscar-entry-eliminated-from-contention-one-more-still-in-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Oscar entry eliminated from contention; one more still in play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (JTA) &#8212; Israel\u2019s 2012 Academy Award entry failed to make the list of nine semi-finalists among foreign-language films. Israel&#8217;s entry, &#8220;Fill the Void,&#8221; was eliminted from contention last Friday. The country&#8217;s Oscar hopes now rest in the documentary feature category, where &#8220;The Gatekeepers,&#8221; from director Dror Moreh, and &#8220;5 Broken Cameras,&#8221; a collaboration between Emud Burnat and Guy Davidi, a Palestinian and an Israeli respectively, are among the 15 semi-finalists.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli entries had made the elite list of five finalists for best foreign-language film in four of the last five years, but without garnering the top prize. Last year\u2019s submission was Joseph Cedar\u2019s \u201cFootnote,\u201d one of the strongest bids ever by the Israeli film industry, but the trophy went to Iran\u2019s \u201cA Separation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also shut out of foreign language contention this year were five movies that dealt with the Jewish fate during the Nazi era and its aftermath, one film with Talmudic roots, and one on the wartime clashes between Soviet and German forces. \u201cFill the Void,\u201d by director Rana Burshtein, centered on Israel&#8217;s haredi Orthodox community in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>A Palestinian film, \u201cWhen I Saw You,\u201d also failed to make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy Awards ceremony will be held Feb. 24 in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Israeli%20Oscar%20entry%20eliminated%20from%20contention%3B%20one%20more%20still%20in%20play\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[745,1574,746,8781,8790,8795,8788,749,1575],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}