Hany Abu-Assad’s “Omar” is nominated for an Academy Award, as was the Palestinian director’s film “Paradise Now,” also about life in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The film again brings sharply into focus the indignities large and small suffered by Palestinians on a daily basis. With the intensity of youth, baker Omar and his friends learn to bear the unbearable but also find ways around strictures. A graffiti-covered wall stands as constant

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George Clooney wasn’t wrong: this 84th Oscars ceremony was Made in France. With the expected raiding of the top awards tier by the Jean Dujardin-Michel Hazanavicius (for Best Actor, and Best Director and Best Film respectively) dream-team, France figured highly on a lot of people’s minds, not least of all Academy voters. Martin Scorcese’s Hugo Cabret, in which a young boy crosses paths with George Méliès, the genial and inventive

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has chosen Brett Ratner (he previously directed X-Men and Horrible Bosses) to produce the next Oscars telecast, which will take place on February 26th. It’s an interesting move, that shows the Academy is fighting to reverse the tide, ie., their poor ratings. Last year's audience share was a whopping 10% lower than 2010.