- Joseph Cedar
Yossi (Joseph) Cedar (born
August 31 ,1968 ,Hebrew : יוסף סידר) is an Israelifilm director andscreenwriter . He has won a Silver Bear and an Ofir Academy Award for Best Director, and an Ofir Academy Award for writing a Best Screenplay.Biography
Cedar was born in New York. When he was 6 his family moved to Israel, and he grew up in the
Bayit VeGan neighborhood inJerusalem . He studied in a Yeshiva High School. In the Israeli army he served as a paratrooper. After graduating inPhilosophy andHistory of theatre from theHebrew University of Jerusalem he studied cinema studies in theNew York University . When he came back to Israel he started working on the screenplay for his debut film, "Time of Favor " (2000 ), for which he moved and lived for 2 years in theIsraeli settlement Dolev . The film became a big success and won 6 Ofir Academy Awards, including Best Picture.His second film was "Campfire" (
2004 ) who was also a success with 5 Ofir Academy Awards including Best Picture, with 2 of them, Best Director and Best Screenplay, going to Cedar. For "Beaufort" (2007 ), his third film, he received the Silver Bear award for Best Director in theBerlin International Film Festival . "Beaufort" became one of the most critically acclaimed and successful Israeli films of the decade and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, the first such nomintion for an Israeli film in 24 years. It also received 4 Ofir Academy Awards.Cedar is an
Orthodox Jew . [ [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203283466804&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Oscar nominee resolves Shabbat dilemma] . "The Jerusalem Post ".] his films are known to touch delicate issues of the Israeli Society. Israeli critic Yair Rave wrote: "One of the reasons I like Cedar's films so much is... his ability to merge the Israeli spirit... with the universal cinematic codes." []Theatrical films
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Time of Favor " (2000)
*"Campfire" (2004)
*"Beaufort" (2007)References
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* [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-beaufort16jan16,0,4008241.story Joseph Cedar is in the Oscar running] , "Los Angeles Times " interview
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