Likewise, I don’t think the younger nominated actors, Ido Tako for The Vanishing Soldier and Roy Nik for Home, have much chance of winning the Best Actor award. Two young and wonderful newcomers are also nominated in this category, Oshrat Ingadashat for America and Suzanna Papian for The Monkey House, but I don’t see either of them winning. She already has more Ophirs than any other actress – and the feeling among voters may be that she has won enough for now.
Ivgy has won three Ophir Awards, two for Best Actress ( Or and Zero Motivation) and one for Best Supporting Actress, in Next to Her. Her chief competition is likely to be Dana Ivgy for The Other Widow. One of Israel’s leading actresses, Amsallem has already won two Ophir Awards in the Best Supporting Actress category, for The House on Fin Street and My Lovely Sister, but never for a leading performance, and the Academy voters clearly feel it’s time to honor her. Sunday is likely to be Reymonde Amsallem’s night, since in addition to the screenplay category, she is nominated twice this year in the Best Actress race, for Seven Blessings and for The Future, in which she plays a police profiler. Oz Zehavi (center) hosts the 2022 Ophir Awards ceremony, Septem(credit: ELIRAN AVITAL, ITZIK BIRAN) Who will dominate the Ophir awards? He knows that the film community, which largely opposes the judicial reform, would not give him a warm welcome. You might think that Culture and Sport Minister Miki Zohar, who happens to be of Moroccan-Tunisian ancestry, would be on hand to cheer on Seven Blessings, but he begged off, citing a scheduling conflict.
Relatively few movies directed by women and few films about Mizrahi Jews have won the Ophir Award in recent years, and this will give Seven Blessings an edge, as will the fact that it concerns an unusual story, one that we haven’t seen before.
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The stars seem aligned for Seven Blessings – which received 12 nominations – to sweep all the major categories for which it is nominated, including Best Movie Best Director for Ayelet Menahemi, a popular director who has not released a movie since Noodle in 2007 and Best Screenplay for Reymonde Amsallem, its star, and Eleanor Sela, an actress who appears in the movie and who reportedly based the story on her own family.
The other contenders in the top category are Benny Fredman’s Home, about a computer store owner in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood Maayan Rypp’s The Other Widow, a story of love and adultery in a theater company Dani Rosenberg’s The Vanishing Soldier, about a soldier who deserts his unit in Gaza and hides in Tel Aviv and Adar Shafran’s Running on Sand, about an Eritrean asylum seeker who is mistaken for a Nigerian soccer star. The Ophir Awards are the prizes of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television and they are Israel’s equivalent of the Academy Awards in the US. Seven Blessings, the female-centric drama about a trauma that haunts a Moroccan bride and her family, will likely dominate the Ophir Awards this year, which will be presented in a ceremony broadcast in a live episode of Guy Pines’s Channel 12 program on September 10. NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on page If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.pubads()) (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) Israel's Oscars: What movies will take home this year’s Ophirs? - Israel Culture - The Jerusalem Post
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