Dwayne Johnson, left, and Bad Bunny present the award for best international feature film during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. ,” which explores questions of complicity while depicting the mundane lives of a Nazi family in their home adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp, won the Academy Award for best international film.
“Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst,” writer-director Jonathan Glazer said. “Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.
Glazer said he hopes the film will draw attention to current conflicts in the world. “All our choices are made to reflect and confront us in the present. Not to say, ‘Look what they did then,’ rather 'look what we do now," he said.nominated for best actress for “Anatomy of a Fall,” plays Hedwig, the wife of Rudolf Höss , the bloodthirsty commandant of Auschwitz. The film was the United Kingdom's submission to the Oscars.
In the film, the couple and their children go about their daily routines — living in a home just on the other side of a stone wall from the gas chambers. Höss spends his work days overseeing the “processing” of trainloads of people, most sent directly to their deaths. Then he comes home, where he and Hedwig share meals, celebrate birthdays, read their kids bedtime stories and make vacation plans.novel of the same name, but chose to depict the real-life commandant.
“The Zone of Interest” is also up for best picture, which made it the favorite to win in the international category. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best director, sound and adapted screenplay, which went to Cord Jefferson for “American Fiction."Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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