‘zone Of Interest’ Makers Deliver Anti-war Statement After Oscar Win

Jonathan Glazer’s hands shook as he accepted the Academy Award for best international feature for “The Zone of Interest.”

“Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst,” Glazer said Sunday evening.

“Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel, or the the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims, this humanization, how do we resist?”

Glazer said he hopes the film will draw attention to current conflicts in the world. “All our choices are made to reflect and confront us in the present. Not to say, ‘Look what they did then,’ rather ‘look what we do now,” he said.

“All our choices are made to reflect and confront us in the present. Not to say, Look what they did then, rather look what we do now, Glazer said. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present.”

'The Zone of Interest" explores questions of complicity while depicting the mundane lives of a Nazi family in their home adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp. Glazer adapted the screenplay loosely from the 2014 Martin Amis novel of the same name.

The film is also up for best picture.