Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv spoke of his Holocaust survivor grandparents as he won an Oscar for Skin, a short film about racial bigotry.
“Layla tov, Israel,” he began. “My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. The bigotry that they experienced in the Holocaust, we see that everywhere today, in America, in Europe.
“This film is about education, about teaching your kids a better way.”
Guy Nattiv, accepting Best Live Action Short award: "My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. The bigotry that they experienced in the Holocaust, we see that everywhere today, in America, in Europe. This film is about...teaching your kids a better way." https://t.co/zSrvQG8ZE6 pic.twitter.com/wDoHAICDgM
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Nattiv and his wife, Jaime Ray Newman, won the Academy Award for best live action short film for Skin, a 20-minute movie about race relations in the US.
The filmmaker is known in his native country for dramas The Flood and Strangers.
Reuven Rivlin, the President of Israel, congratulated the pair on Monday, describing Skin as "a gift to our children and grandchildren and for the future we wish for them".
Rachel Weisz, who played Sarah Churchill in The Favourite, lost to Regina King in the category of best supporting actress, while director Paweł Pawlikowski missed out on the best director gong for Cold War.
Spike Lee received a standing ovation when he collected the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for BlacKkKlansman, which he won with Kevin Willmott and Jewish screenwriters Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz.
And Mark Ronson was a winner – along with Lady Gaga, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt – for the best original song for Shallow, which appeared in A Star Is Born.
