“The Zone of Interest” director Jonathan Glazer called out Israel’s bombardment of Gaza while accepting the Academy Award for Best International Film, one of the only award winners Sunday to directly acknowledge the war in Gaza onstage.

“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say: ‘Look what they did then’ — rather, look what we do now. Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s shaped all of our past and present. 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,” the British filmmaker said to applause. “Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza — all the victims of this dehumanization. How do we resist?”

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