The reaction in the hall suggested that Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar acceptance speech landed satisfactorily. Since then, however, the attacks have been relentless. What will it mean for one of the UK’s most lauded film-makers? In the run-up to the 96th Academy Awards there had been much speculation about whether winners would refer to the conflict in Gaza. In the event, as at Bafta, it was the team from Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, a singular Holocaust drama, that dared to gesture towards that tragedy. The director’s hands were visibly shaking as, reading from a scrap of paper, he declared that...