Given that there were no world famous Jewish names among nominees for the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood last Sunday night, the tribe did fairly well.

The Great Budapest Hotel, which tied with Birdman for the most Oscars, was inspired by the writings of Austrian-Jewish novelist Stefan Zweig, with Scott Rudin the film's Jewish producer.

Ida won as best foreign-language film, confounding predictions that movies with Holocaust or Nazi-era themes were passé. The Polish entry focused on a young novitiate about to take her vows as a nun, when she discovers that she is the daughter of Jewish parents killed by the Nazis. The grandmother of the director, Pawel Pawlikowski, was Jewish and was killed in Auschwitz.

Meanwhile, Patricia Arquette, daughter of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, won best supporting actress in the film Boyhood. Graham Moore won as writer for The Imitation Game and Mexican-Jewish cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki accepted the Academy Award for Birdman, repeating his victory last year for Gravity.