The stars are among ... details to the Academy, in order to be considered for the Best Picture Academy Award. In the Hollywood Bureau for Jewish Representation's letter to the Academy, which ...

An advocacy group is blasting the Motion Picture Academy for its “inclusion effort that excludes Jews” — claiming it’s “steeped in antisemitism and misunderstands it.” A letter to the ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apologized for its initial vague statement regarding the events surrounding Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal (36). In a letter signed by CEO ...

The group, which hosts and awards the Oscars each year, wrote to members after movie stars ... the letter said. Yuval Abraham, one of the film’s Israeli co-directors, had criticized the Academy ...

Academy Chief Executive Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang’s letter continued: “We sincerely apologize to Mr. Ballal and all artists who felt unsupported by our previous statement and want ...

“Compare this, to the academy’s rightfully strong position when it’s the Iranian government oppressing filmmakers,” he wrote, posting an extract of the letter related to Panahi’s ...

JITC, founded by Allison Josephs, claims in the letter that the academy's inclusion policy ... In addition, we’d like to propose further changes to the Representation and Inclusion Standards ...

The group, which hosts and awards the Oscars each year, wrote to members after movie stars ... the US-based Academy initially did not issue a statement. On Wednesday, it sent a letter to members ...