Jonathan Glazer’s Full Oscars Speech Condemns ‘Occupation’

You might have noticed that the Oscars began uncharacteristically late last night, a full six minutes after its scheduled start time. That could be because attendees were stuck in “traffic” on their way to the Dolby Theatre, what is usually an unsurprising fixture of life in Tinseltown. In this case, a banal word like traffic dulls the reality of what occurred in Los Angeles on March 10, as hundreds of protesters with Film Workers for Palestine and SAG-AFTRA Members for Ceasefire blocked roadways making explicit calls for “No awards amid a genocide” and forcing guests to get out of their cars, walk, or hitch…