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‘Son of Saul’ wins Oscar for Foreign Language Film

Jewish talent received a fair share of recognition and the Holocaust-themed “Son of Saul” beat entries from 80 countries to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film, but overall the Sunday evening Academy Awards show in Hollywood skipped the light touch and Jewish jokes in favor of some deep soul-searching.

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Under the spell of Nina Simone

Her camera has tracked inmates living on a former slave plantation turned prison farm, a Jewish fugitive who married a Nazi, the eccentric chess master Bobby Fischer, mothers with mental impairment and, most recently, chanteuse and civil rights activist Nina Simone.

Arthur Max’s intelligent design in ‘The Martian’

A few days after receiving the Art Directors Guild award for his work on “The Martian,” production designer Arthur Max ruminated on the seven nominations and two wins he had received from the guild over the course of his 13-film career (his first award, in 2001, was for “Gladiator,” which, like “The Martian,” was directed by Ridley Scott, with whom Max works frequently).

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