| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Israel. |
Directed by Joseph Cedar
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Starz)
A curmudgeonly professor at a Jewish university is mistakenly informed that he has won a prestigious national prize for his life-long efforts in research. The prize was supposed to go to his son, but the names were mixed up. The mistake causes friction among the faculty and at home. The overall tone is on the light side, including some unnecessary comic relief, but given the academic setting and esoteric subject matter it might have easily become boring, which thankfully is not the case. In fact, there are a couple of near-classic scenes: a meeting in a cramped office where the mistake is revealed to the son, and the frantic search by the father when he suspects a letter has been forged. However, the ending, after a monumental build-up, is instead a let-down.
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