A postwar epic about a Holocaust survivor, a contemporary comedy about Holocaust tourism, and a biopic of a Jewish musical legend helped lend a formidable Jewish presence to this year’s Oscar nominations.
“The Brutalist,” a three-plus-hour historical drama starring Adrien Brody as a fictional Hungarian Jewish architect inspired by real Jewish designers, is well positioned with 10 nominations, including Best Picture, tied for second-most of the year.
Also nominated is another Holocaust-themed film, “A Real Pain,” which follows two Jewish cousins on a tour of Poland to commemorate their survivor grandmother’s passing.
“September 5,” a docudrama about the journalists who covered the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis and massacre of Israel’s athletic delegation by the Palestinian terror group Black September, was nominated for original screenplay.
In lighter Jewish stories, the Bob Dylan biopic, “A Complete Unknown,” received eight nominations, including Best Picture.
Jewish actors, directors, writers and producers were nominated in various categories. The Academy Awards will air live on Sunday, March 2, from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, and will be televised on ABC and Hulu, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern.
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