i24news’ Morning Edition with Yeal Lavie for October 4th, 2013
Ron Jacobsohn explains how the Academy for Motion Pictures and Sciences will vote for the 86th Academy Awards in the Foreign Language Movie category and discusses who are the Foreign Language Oscar contenders for this year.
The Ophir Awards, or the Israeli Academy Awards, is the official competition to what Israeli movie will go on to compete with around eighty films from around the world for the honor to be nominated in the foreign language category at the Oscars in Hollywood. Winning the competition has become a lot more thought after as in the past six years four winners of the Ophir Awards went on to be nominated for an Oscar, however none have yet to receive the highest honor to bring the Golden statue back to Israel. This year the five nominees for Best Movie at the Ophir awards are: Bethlehem, Hunting Elephants, Candies, Magic Men and Six Times.
Bethlehem the story of an Israeli secret service agent and a Palestinian collaborator won 6 Ophir Awards including Best Movies, which makes it the official Israeli entry for the Oscars.
The Haifa Film Festival is celebrating its twenty-ninth edition, making it the longest running international film festival in Israel. And at tonight’s opening gala Oscar nominated Israeli filmmaker, Ari Folman of Waltz with Bashir fame, is presenting his newest flick, The Congress.
In the new Israeli-European co-production, The Congress, everything that you think can come true, so JN1 Correspondent Ron Jacobsohn dared to ask some of the celebrities attending the premiere if they had it their way, how would the ideal Israel look like?
i24news’ Morning Edition hosted by Yael Lavie from September 23rd, 2013.
Ron Jacobsohn discuses the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. Breaking Bad won Outstanding Drama Series for the first half of its fifth season, while Modern Family won Outstanding Comedy Series for the fourth consecutive time. Netflix made history by earning the first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for original online only web television and now winning three wins for Directing and two creative Emmys for House of Cards.