Footnote (film)

Footnote
Footnote
	International festival poster
Directed by	Joseph Cedar
Written by	Joseph Cedar
Produced by	David Mandil; Moshe Edery; Leon Edery
Starring	Shlomo Bar Aba; Lior Ashkenazi
Cinematography	Yaron Scharf
Edited by	Einat Glaser Zarhin
Music by	Amit Poznansky
Production; companies	United King Films; Movie Plus
Distributed by	United King Films
Release dates	14 May 2011 (Cannes); 2 June 2011 (Israel);
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Israel
Language	Hebrew
Box office	$2 million

Footnote (Hebrew: הערת שוליים, translit. He'arat Shulayim) is a 2011 Israeli drama film written and directed by Joseph Cedar, starring Shlomo Bar Aba and Lior Ashkenazi.^[2] The plot revolves around the troubled relationship between a father and son who teach at the Talmud department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The film won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Footnote won nine prizes at the 2011 Ophir Awards, becoming Israel's entry for the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.^[3]^[4] On 18 January 2012, the film was named as one of the nine shortlisted entries for the Oscars.^[5] On 24 January 2012, the film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Foreign Language Film,^[6] but lost to the Iranian film A Separation.

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^ Smith, Ian Hayden (2012). International Film Guide 2012. p. 149. ISBN 978-1908215017.
^ Brown, Hannah. "'Footnote' wins top pri..." Jpost.com. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
^ "63 Countries Vie for 2011 Foreign Language Film Oscar". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
^ "9 Foreign Language Films Vie for Oscar". Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
^ "Oscars 2012: Nominees in full". BBC News. Retrieved 24 January 2012.