Israeli film ‘White Eye’ gets Oscar nomination for Live Action Short Film
The short film White Eye by Israeli director Tomer Shushan was nominated for an Oscar in the Live Action Short Film category. The Oscar nominations were announced online on Monday.
“This is the most exciting moment in my life,” Shushan said. “For a few weeks I couldn’t sleep at all. It felt like five years. I have the most amazing team; I’m so happy for all of us.”
Last month, it was announced that White Eye was on the Oscar short list.
The movie, which is shot in one take, tells an intense story about the night-time odyssey of a young man in south Tel Aviv who comes across a locked bike that was recently stolen from him. He accuses an African worker of having stolen it, then discovers that the truth of what happened is more complicated.
White Eye has already won important prizes all over the world, including the Grand Jury Award at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival in 2020, which meant it qualified to be considered for the Oscars. It also won the 2020 Best Short Film Award at the Haifa International Film Festival, as well as 23 other international awards.
In 2014, the Israeli film Aya, by Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis, was nominated in this category but did not win. An Israeli film, Strangers No More by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, won in the Best Documentary Short category in 2011.
In the major categories, David Fincher’s Mank led the Oscar nominations with 10 nods, including for Best Picture, Director, Actor and Supporting Actress. The film is a character study of one of the leading American Jewish screenwriters of all time, Herman J. Mankiewicz, who wrote Citizen Kane. Other nominees for Best Picture are The Father,