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Sacha Baron Cohen poses in humorous fashion for a photo during a screening of the Oscars in Sydney, Australia on April 25 in Sydney, Australia. (Rick Rycroft\/ Pool\/Getty Images via JTA.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Gabe Friedman<\/p>\n

It was an unusual Academy Awards in several ways.<\/p>\n

Forced to adapt to social distancing protocols, the ceremony was split into different venues but mostly took place in Los Angeles\u2019 Union Station. For only the second time in history, a woman won best director \u2014 and the first woman of color at that, as the award went to Chloe Zhao for \u201cNomadland,\u201d which also won best picture. And then there was Glenn Close\u2019s\u00a0meme-able dance to the self-explanatory 1988 song \u201cDa Butt.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Also notable: a very low number of Jewish winners.<\/p>\n

To be fair, there was not a large pool of nominees to begin with. And \u201cNomadland,\u201d a portrait of homeless nomads who move around the American West, did feature one Jewish producer who got his hands on the top prize \u2014\u00a0Peter Spears<\/strong>, a former actor best known before Sunday night as a producer of \u201cCall Me By Your Name<\/a>,\u201d the hit 2017 drama based on Jewish writer Andr\u00e9 Aciman\u2019s novel of the same name.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a roundup of the other results and moments we had our eyes on:<\/p>\n

\u2013Sacha Baron Cohen<\/strong>\u00a0lost in the best adapted screenplay category \u2014 his\u00a0\u201cBorat\u201d sequel<\/a>\u00a0was beat out by Florian Zeller\u2019s \u201cThe Father,\u201d an adaptation of his own play. Cohen was also nominated as best supporting actor\u00a0for playing Jewish activist Abbie Hoffman<\/a>\u00a0but lost to Daniel Kaluuya, star of \u201cJudas and the Black Messiah.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Ann Roth<\/strong>\u00a0won best costume design for her work on \u201cMa Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom,\u201d and\u00a0tied the record<\/a>\u00a0for oldest Oscar winner in the process (James Ivory was also 89 when he won best adapted screenplay for \u201cCall Me By Your Name\u201d in 2018). Along the way to working on over 100 films and plays, Roth has designed costumes for some of the most respected works of the last half century, ranging from \u201cMidnight Cowboy\u201d to \u201cThe English Patient\u201d to the recent lauded Broadway version of \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013\u201cWhite Eye,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0an Israeli short film that tackles white Israelis\u2019 biases<\/a>\u00a0toward African migrants, lost in the live short category to \u201cTwo Distant Strangers.\u201d<\/p>\n

-After winning best screenplay at the Golden Globes,\u00a0Aaron Sorkin<\/strong>\u2018s \u201cThe Trial of the Chicago 7,\u201d about the 1968 Chicago Seven protesters, was up for six Oscars. Sorkin was personally up for best original screenplay. But the film didn\u2019t win any on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

-Pixar added to its Oscars chest, as \u201cSoul\u201d was awarded best animated feature film. In December, Rabbi Benjamin Resnick\u00a0compared the movie\u2019s philosophy to ancient Jewish ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

-For Jewish songwriter\u00a0Diane Warren<\/strong>, 12th time was not the charm. Her tune \u201cIo s\u00ec (Seen),\u201d from the film \u201cThe Life Ahead\u201d \u2014 which stars Sophia Loren as a Holocaust survivor \u2014 was nominated for best original song, the 12th time she had been nominated in that category. It lost to \u201cFight For You\u201d from \u201cJudas and the Black Messiah.\u201d<\/p>\n

-\u201cMank<\/strong>,\u201d director David Fincher\u2019s film\u00a0about the legendary Jewish screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz<\/a>, was up for a leading 10 awards, but only won two \u2014 best cinematography and best production design.<\/p>\n

-Several famous Hollywood Jews were included in the show\u2019s annual \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d segment, paying tribute to stars and other industry veterans lost in the past year. The familiar faces included\u00a0Carl Reiner<\/a>,\u00a0Jerry Stiller<\/a>,\u00a0Joel Schumacher<\/a>,\u00a0Joan Micklin Silver<\/a>,\u00a0George Segal<\/a>,\u00a0Sumner Redstone<\/a>,\u00a0Ronald Harwood<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Walter Bernstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

-In accepting an award for his humanitarian work, filmmaker Tyler Perry\u00a0talked about<\/a>\u00a0combating hate and about his inspirational mother. In one story he recounted, he found her at home one day when she was supposed to be at work. He said she worked at a Jewish community center, and there had been a bomb threat at the building. \u201cShe couldn\u2019t believe that someone wanted to blow up this place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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