Academy apologises for statement on Palestinian Oscar winner attack
winning Palestinian film director leaves detention/ The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences apologised on Friday after hundreds of its members criticised it for not supporting Oscar-winner Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian who was recently detained by Israeli settlers. The Academy apologised for not "directly [acknowledging] Mr Ballal and the film by name", after nearly 700 voting members, including multiple A-list actors, signed a letter rebuking it. Mr Ballal is one of the co-directors of the documentary No Other Land, before being ...
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