The heart wasn’t just in the party, the jokes and the sequins. Palestine, Ukraine or even rape and sexual violence, various personalities present at the 2024 Oscars showed their political positions in the face of situations so violent and unjust that they cannot be ignored.
“Let’s stop killing children”: Billie Eilish, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo and other artists display a red pin for Palestine
If you watched the Oscars ceremony last night, you couldn’t miss this little red badge worn by a multitude of personalities during the 96th ceremony dedicated to cinema, from Mark Ruffalo to Finneas O’Connell via Ava DuVernay, Billie Eilish and even Ramy Youssef . As for French actors Swann Arlaud and Milo Machado-Granerrespectively, the lawyer and the blind child Anatomy of a fallthey wore a badge representing a Palestinian flag on their jacket.
When a journalist asked Ramy Youssef what this red pin represented a heart and a hand meant the leading actor of Egyptian origin Poor creatures has explained:
» This pin is the artists’ sign for a ceasefire. We demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We demand peace and lasting justice for the Palestinian people. This is actually a universal message: Stop killing children“.
A pro-Palestinian demonstration opened the ceremony
Six minutes. They represent delay after which the Oscar ceremony began this Sunday, March 10, 2024. Six minutes eminently political. And for good reason: on the edge of the Dolby Theater, where the ceremony took place, a large demonstration was organized calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. This meeting was organized by several groups of Hollywood professionals such as Writers against the war in Gaza (WAWOG), Film workers for Palestine OR SAG-AFTRA ceasefire members.
Far from being isolated, this demonstration comes less than two weeks after the arrest of 25-year-old actress Hunter Schafer. The latter had been tied with her hands behind her back and then released after taking part in a demonstration for Palestine. The demonstration was organized by a collective of anti-Zionist Jews to urge President Joe Biden to order a ceasefire.
The demonstration organized near the Dolby Theater gave rise to a gathering of cars, then to the arrival on foot of numerous guests at the ceremony, as shown in the images of the Hollywood reporter.
“Refute the Abuse of the Holocaust”: Jonathan Glazer’s extraordinary speech
The director received the Oscar for best foreign film for The area of interest, Jonathan Glazer gave an amazing speech when receiving the award. The British director denounced “dehumanization” victims of the massacre orchestrated by Israel after the October 7 attacks committed by Hamas.
With trembling hands, but a steady voice, the director of this film about the Auschwitz extermination camps recalled: “ Our film shows how dehumanization leads to the worst”.
Standing next to the film’s producer James Wilson, Jonathan Glazer stood next to him “as men who deny their Jewishness and the fact that the Holocaust is robbed by an occupation that brought so many innocent people into the conflict, be they the victims of October 7 in Israel or those of the “ongoing attack in Gaza” .
“I would have preferred never to make this film »: the best documentary, for peace in Ukraine
Ukraine was also among the concerns of the talents present on the night of March 10th in Los Angeles. Awarded with the Oscar for best documentary for his film 20 days in Mariupolwar correspondent and photographer Mstyslav Chernov said on the Dolby stage:
“I’m probably the first director on this stage to say that I would have preferred never to make this film, if in exchange Russia had not attacked Ukraine, nor occupied our cities.
I want Russia to be sued for killing tens of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians. I would like them to release all the hostages, all the soldiers protecting their lands, all the civilians who are now in their prisons. But I can’t change history, I can’t change the past. »
His film is available now and for free on the France.tv platform.
Gérard Depardieu “eats vomit”: the clash with Jimmy Kimmel
International politics wasn’t the only moment of protest at the Oscars. Presenter accustomed to the costume of Oscar master of ceremonies, Jimmy Kimmel took the opportunity to recall that Gérard Depardieu, sacred monster of French cinema indicted for rape and sexual violence, is not is no longer welcome at the Oscars.
While praising Snoop, the border collie who plays Messi Anatomy of a fall (is that to miss revealed the most surprising secrets to you), the American presenter launched a contrast to Gérard Depardieu:
“Messi, the dogThe anatomy of a fall is here. He’s amazing, I haven’t seen a French actor eat vomit like that since Gérard Depardieu ».
We remind you that the 75-year-old actor is currently indicted and targeted by three investigations sexual violence.
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