-

The music categories
is also up for a Best
are
"Jewish light" this
Original Screenplay
year, with just one very
Oscar for Vera Drake.
cool Jew — rocker
Leigh's best-known
Adam Duritz of
film, Secrets and Lies,
Counting Crows fame
won him a Best Director
—nominated. Duritz
nomination in 1996.
co-wrote the song,
Even though his
"Accidentally in Love"
father was a doctor,
Shrek 2.
from
Leigh grew up in a
Already an. Oscar
working class area, and
winner is David
his films depict the lives
Samuelson, a British
of England's common
film executive who co-
people. When he was a
Mike Leigh: Up for Best
invented
a camera-
young man, he was
Director and Best Original
involved in a Labor
Screenplay for "Vera Drake." mounting device that
has revolutionized film-
Zionist group, but in
making. Samuelson, 80,
later life he has drifted
got the news that he will receive a tech-
away from any formal ties to the Jewish
nical Oscar not long after he celebrated
community.
Also nominated for Best Screenplay is his bar mitzvah.
You see, when Samuelson was a boy,
the very original Charlie Kaufman, who
he attended a synagogue with a very
wrote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind The Long-Island raised Kaufman strict rabbi. So strict that he barred
Samuelson from the synagogue when
describes himself as having a normal
he found out the boy had taken a train
Jewish upbringing. Eternal Sunshine,
on the Sabbath — even though
like Kaufman's other Oscar nominated
Samuelson took the train to avoid being
scripts (Being John Malkovich and
late for services. Until last year, the new
Adaptation), is distinctive in that it
Oscar winner didn't know he could
explores the inner mind of characters
have a bar mitzvah celebration at any
via a dream-like logic that somehow
age.
makes sense.
Likewise, also being honored are
director
Fahrenheit
911
Thank
director Sidney Lumet and film execu-
Michael Moore for at least one thing:
tive Roger Mayer.
People are now paying more attention
Lumet, 80, is being honored with a
to documentaries.
Lifetime Achievement Award. While
Competing for the Best
this son of a Yiddish-theater actor is
Documentary Short Subject award is
Sister Rose's Passion, a riveting film about most famous for huge hits like Dog Day
an elderly New Jersey nun who has bat- Afternoon and 12 Angry Men, Lumet
also made The Pawnbroker, still one of
tled anti-Semitism for decades and was
the most gripping Holocaust films, and
instrumental in reforming the Catholic
Bye, Bye, Braverman, a little-known
Church's teachings about Jews.
comedic gem about Jewish intellectuals.
The Oscar-nominated director is
Lumet will discuss The Pawnbroker in
Oren Jacoby, who says that making this
the AMC cable documentary Imaginary
film brought him closer to his Jewish
Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust,
side. (His filmmaker father is Jewish
premiering April 5.
and was nominated 46 years ago in the
Mayer, who is president of Turner
same category.)
Entertainment, will receive the Jean
Over in the Best Documentary
Hersholt Humanitarian Award. His
Feature category is Born into Brothels,
philanthropy includes film charities and
about the children of Calcutta prosti-
the United Jewish Welfare Fund.
tutes. The director is Zana Briski,
Finally, we should mention Oscar
whose Iraqi Jewish mother now lives in
show director Gil Cates, a nice Jewish
Israel. Briski's Oscar co-nominee Ross
guy who many say is taking quite a
Kaufman, the film's co-producer and
chance by picking the acid-tongued
co-photographer, also is Jewish.
Briski, we should add, didn't just film comedian Chris Rock to host the
Oscars this year. Cates, who is the uncle
her subjects. She taught the children
of actress Phoebe Cates, says the reason
photography and worked to get them
is simple: "Chris Rock is funny." ❑
into boarding schools.
dramatizing
the
Downfalh
Germany's
last 10 days of Hider's life in a Berlin
The 77th Annual Academy Awards
bunker, is one of five finalists for Best
will be broadcast on ABC begin-
Foreign Language Film. Neither Israel's
ning 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27.
Campfire nor the Palestinian The Olive
Harvest made the cut.

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