Godar finally refused to personally receive Oscars

The legendary director Jean-Luke Hodar officially refused to personally receive Oscars for his contribution to the development of cinema, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the American film academy.

The statement of the film academy says that according to the results of the two-month-old “Soul Correspondence with the president of the Academy, Tom Sherack Jean-Luke Hodar, regretfully notified Sheraq that he could not personally attend the Oscars on November 13. At the same time, Godar repeatedly expressed gratitude for the recognition of his merits and transferred his best wishes to those who had to receive the award At the same time, Kevin Braunlow, Francis Ford Coppole and Elai Walllah, whom he called the "three remaining musketeers," says the statement of the academy.

- The media called not to give an Oscar to Anti -Semite Godar

Recall that the Goddar, whom the American Academy considered "one of the key modernists in the history of cinema", has long tried to evade the receipt of the Hollywood figurine. At first, the academicians simply could not find him to give a notification of the rehears to be given, then the director handed them through his wife that he was too old to cross the ocean “behind some piece of metal” , especially since the honorary “Oscars” have been awarded separately from the main ones - not in February, but in November.

As a result, at the ceremony, instead of the director himself, they will show a cut from his films, and the statuette will be transported to the addressee to Switzerland by mail.

In addition to Godard, the prize should go to two Hollywood classics - director Francis Ford Coppola and actor Elai Walllahu, as well as the historian of the movie Kevin Brunlow.

Hodar has already neglected one significant event this year: at the very last moment, he refused to appear at the Cannes Film Festival in order to present his last picture “Socialism”, sending a note written by hand addressed to the director of the festival Thierry Fremo: “Due to the problems of the Greek type, I will not be able to be your debtor in Cannes. I will go with the festival until my death, but not a step. More.

At one time, in 1968, Hodar for the company with Francois Truffo participated in the disruption of the Cannes Film Festival and, as a result, in his entire career, never received a "golden palm branch". The legendary director found that the problems in the Greek economy are the same mine for Europe as he himself - for the Cannes film art - not to mention the Hollywood establishment.

Jean-Luk Hodar is a key figure in the "new wave" of French cinema. Jean-Luk gave his beloved business for 50 years, shot and produced over 70 paintings, including "in the last breath", "Alfavil", "weekend" and "King Lear". The American film academia also recognizes the merits of Godard in the formation of the masters of modern cinema Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Skorsze, Stephen Sodenberg and Quentin Tarantino.

American and Israeli media called not to give an Oscar to Anti -Semite Godar

Recall that last week a number of American and Israeli publications called on the American film academy not to present to the French filmmaker Jean-Luka Godard, reminding his anti-Semitism on November 13.

“If on November 13, academics present the Oscar Oscar, they will give honors to a person who protects the Palestinian terrorists and regularly compares Israel with Nazi Germany,” the publications recall.

The 79 -year -old director is known for his statements that “Israel is a cancer tumor on the map of the Middle East” and “historical assumptions”, the essence of which boils down to the fact that “the Holocaust is the suicide of Jews that attracted sympathy and contributing to the creation of Israel.”

In 1970, Hodar starred in a short documentary, released on German television. The director who waving the Nazisrael placket told the operator: "Let the German television, financed by Zionists and the idiotic social democrat, Willy Brandt, write us a check - we will buy a weapon for the Palestinians for this money, they attack the Zionists with this weapon."

Speaking in 1978 in Montreal with a lecture, the director said that his relatives sympathized with the Nazis and believed in the victory of Nazi Germany. "My grandfather was not an anti -Sionist, but was an ardent anti -Semite. I also opposed Zionism as ardently as my grandfather at one time opposed the Jews," Godar said then.

In 2009, in the Le Monde newspaper the article “Hodar and the Jewish Question” was published, which included the following year of Godard: “Jews went to gas chambers, like a sheep for slaughter, so that, having sacrificed, to contribute to the creation of Israel.”

The Jewish Daily Forward recalled the New York edition that in 1960, Hodar called the director Pierre Bronberge "dirty Jew". Forward addressed its questions to the American Film Academy, which answered as follows: "It is known that Jean -Luke Hodar admitted public anti -Semitic statements. Anti -Semitism is a very regret, but the Academy believes that the grounds are not enough anti -Semitic. Our award is intended for those who made an outstanding contribution to art, regardless of their political views."