“Footnote” is a film written and directed by Joseph Cedar and is Israel’s 10th nomination for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards.

Cedar considers the Academy Award nomination high praise.

The film covers Talmudic scholar Eliezer Shkolnik who has devoted his career to an exhaustive study of varying versions of Jewish texts in an effort to ascertain the most exact form of the original works possible.  Dismissed by his fellow academics, Eliezer resents the popularity and success of his son, Uriel, whose less rigorous studies have won him wide recognition.

“The Oscars actually have content, and there is substance to a lot of the discussion. So it’s really a worthy event and more than just the glamor …I think,” Cedar says.

Additionally, Poland will be competing against Israel in this category with a Jewish themed film, “In Darkness”,  directed by Agnieszka Holland. It recounts the true story of survival in the Nazi occupied city of Lvov during World War II when a sanitation worker there named Socha helps a group of Jews hide in the sewers.

Steven Spielberg’s film “War Horse” is nominated for Best Picture. Woody Allen is also nominated for his direction of “Midnight in Paris”.

Behatzlachah (with success).