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‘I had to do my bit’: a history of controversial politics at the Oscars
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 13 March - 18:13
The fallout from Jonathan Glazer’s rousing yet willfully misconstrued acceptance speech makes him the latest in a long line of artists who have tried to use a public stage for good
There were relatively few surprises at this year’s Oscars – the grand history of Oppenheimer seducing voters, the grand handsomeness of Ryan Gosling seducing viewers – but an otherwise played-safe broadcast found itself in spikier territory when British writer-director Jonathan Glazer took the stage.
The film-maker was collecting the award for best international feature for his unsettling second world war drama The Zone of Interest, set on the outskirts of Auschwitz, when he bucked the apolitical trend of the night to make a statement.
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