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‘Maestro,’ About Leonard Bernstein’s Marriage, Gets Four Golden Globes Nominations, Including Best Picture
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein on the set of “Maestro.” Photo: Netflix.
Maestro, the film about the marriage of late Jewish conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, received Golden Globes nominations on Monday for best picture in the drama category, best actress for Carey Mulligan and best actor for lead star Bradly Cooper, who is also nominated for directing the film.
Maestro focuses mostly on Bernstein’s private life, family, and marriage to Chilean-American actress Felicia Montealegre, who is played in the film by Mulligan. Bernstein was the former conductor of the New York Philharmonic and best known for writing the music for West Side Story. He won numerous awards throughout his illustrious career, include Emmys, Tonys and 16 Grammy Awards. The father-of-three died on Oct. 14, 1990.
The full list of Golden Globe nominations were announced on Monday and the ceremony is set for Jan. 7, 2024.
Maestro will compete in the best picture category against Anatomy of a Fall, Killers of the Flower Moon, Past Lives, The Zone of Interest — about the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp Rudolf Höss — and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which chronicles the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II. Cillian Murphy received a nod for best actor for starring as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man responsible for making the top-secret Manhattan Project a success, while a nod for supporting actor was given to Robert Downey Jr. for playing Lewis L. Strauss, who is Jewish. Nolan’s film received eight nominations in total, including for best screenplay and director.
In the comedy or musical category, Jewish actors Natalie Portman, Joaquin Phoenix and Timothée Chalamet are nominated for their leading roles in May December, Beau is Afraid and Wonka, respectively. In television, Emma Stone is nominated for her role in the Showtime series The Curse, where she plays a Jewish convert and lights Shabbat blessings. She is also nominated for best actress in the film Poor Things. Additionally, Rachel Weisz is nominated for playing both Beverly and Elliot Mantle in the Amazon Prime series Dead Ringers. Other Jewish actors in television who received Golden Globe nominations include Natasha Lyonne (Pokerface), Eban Moss-Bachrach (The Bear) and Jason Segal (Shrinking), and Eban Moss-Bachrach.
Jewish DJ, record producer and songwriter Mark Ronson is nominated for best song for Dance the Night and I’m Just Ken from the movie Barbie, which is about the popular doll created by Ruth Handler, who was Jewish. Barbie topped the list of nominees with nine nods.
The late Jewish musician and songwriter Robbie Robertson is nominated for his score for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which is also nominated for a slew of other awards, including best screenplay for Scorsese and Jewish screenwriter Eric Roth.
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, both of whom are Jewish, are each nominated in the Globes’ new category for stand-up comedy for Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact and Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love, respectively.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.