Ophir Award
Tzachi Halevy and Yuval Scharf (right) hosting the 2019 Ophir Awards
Awarded forBest in film
CountryIsrael
Presented byIsraeli Academy of Film and Television
First awarded1990 (1990)
Websitewww.israelfilmacademy.co.il

The Ophir Awards (Hebrew: פרס אופיר), colloquially known as the Israeli Oscars or the Israeli Academy Awards, are film awards for excellence in the Israeli film industry awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. The award, named after Israeli actor Shaike Ophir, has been granted since 1990.

History

The first Israeli Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1982 with the first award being presented to director Shimon Dotan for the film Repeat Dive, and since 1990 has been held annually at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center.

The highest number of Ophir Awards won by a single film is 11, achieved only by Nina's Tragedies. Assi Dayan won the award 8 times and is the only person to have won as a director, as a screenwriter and also as an actor.

The winner of the Best Film award usually becomes Israel's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film,[1] although exceptions include Aviva My Love (which was rejected in favor of the film it tied with, Sweet Mud) and The Band's Visit, which was disqualified for having more than 50% of its dialogue in English. Israel submitted the runner-up for that year—Beaufort—instead. The latter film was eventually nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

The statuette awarded to prize winners was designed by the Israeli sculptor Richard Shiloh, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in 2011.[2]

List of winners

Awards ceremonies

This is a list of Ophir Award ceremonies.

Ceremonies

Ceremony Date Time Best Picture Winner Length of Ceremony Number of Viewers Rating Host(s) Venue Broadcast Partner(s)
1984Beyond the Walls
1985When Night Falls
1986Avanti Popolo
1987I Don't Give a Damn
1988Aviya's Summer
1989One of Us
1st Ophir Awards1990The Lookout
2nd Ophir Awards1991Beyond the Sea
3rd Ophir Awards1992Life According to Agfa
4th Ophir Awards1993Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein
5th Ophir Awards1994Sh'Chur
6th Ophir Awards1995Lovesick on Nana Street
7th Ophir Awards1996Saint Clara
8th Ophir Awards1997Pick a Card
9th Ophir Awards1998Circus Palestine
10th Ophir Awards1999Yana's Friends
11th Ophir Awards2000Time of FavorAki Avni
12th Ophir Awards2001Late MarriageYael Abecassis
13th Ophir Awards2002Broken WingsAvi Kushnir
14th Ophir AwardsSeptember 24, 2003Nina's Tragedies

Since 2003 the ceremony split into two ceremonies: a separate ceremony for television and a separate ceremony for films.
This was also the first ceremony which been held in late September instead of October, due to the US Academy Awards brought forward from March to February.
[5]

Since 2004, the award name changed from "Israeli Oscar" to "Ophir Award," named after actor Shaike Ophir.[6]

15th Ophir AwardsSeptember 27, 20048:45 p.m.CampfireAvi KushnirTel Aviv Performing Arts CenterChannel 2
16th Ophir AwardsSeptember 20, 2005What a Wonderful PlaceMoni MoshonovHOT3
17th Ophir AwardsSeptember 14, 20068:00 p.m.Aviva, My Love and Sweet Mud (tie)2 hours, 38 minutesShlomo Bar-Aba, Moni Moshonov
18th Ophir AwardsSeptember 20, 2007The Band's Visit1 hour, 41 minutesTal Friedman, Moni MoshonovChannel 2
(Not Live)
19th Ophir AwardsSeptember 23, 2008Waltz with BashirShai Goldstein, Dror RefaelChannel 10
20th Ophir AwardsSeptember 26, 2009AjamiAvi Kushnir, Moni MoshonovHaifa AuditoriumChannel 2
21st Ophir AwardsSeptember 21, 20109:30 p.m.The Human Resources ManagerAki AvniJerusalem TheatreChannel 1
22nd Ophir Awards September 22, 20118:45 p.m.Footnote2 hour, 12 minutesMoni MoshonovKrieger Center for Performing ArtsChannel 2
90 minutes were broadcast live.
23rd Ophir AwardsSeptember 21, 20121:00 p.m.Fill the VoidShlomo Bar-AbaChannel 2
Air an edited version in 10:00 p.m.
24th Ophir Awards September 28, 20139:00 p.m.BethlehemYaron BrovinskyHaifa TheatreChannel 10
25th Ophir AwardsSeptember 21, 2014Gett: The Trial of Viviane AmsalemMoni MoshonovAshdod Performing Arts Center
26th Ophir Awards September 21, 2015Baba JoonTal Friedman
27th Ophir Awards September 22, 2016Sand StormGuri AlfiChannel 24
28th Ophir Awards September 19, 2017FoxtrotIlan PeledChannel 10
29th Ophir Awards September 6, 2018The CakemakerIlan PeledChannel 13
30th Ophir Awards September 22, 2019IncitementTzachi Halevy, Yuval ScharfKan 11
31st Ophir Awards November 13, 2020AsiaKobi Meaden
32nd Ophir Awards October 5, 20219:15 p.m.Let There Be MorningAlma Zack, Shai Avivi
33rd Ophir Awards[7] September 18, 2022 11:00 p.m. TBC Cinema Sabaya

Ceremony hosts

The following have hosted (or co-hosted) the Academy Awards ceremony on two or more occasions.

Host Number of Ceremonies
Moni Moshonov5
Avi Kushnir2
Shlomo Bar-Aba2
Tal Friedman2
Ilan Peled2

See also

References

  1. "'Zero Motivation' gets 12 Ophir nods". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  2. Tragedy: Artist Richard Shiloh dies in road accident
  3. Steinberg, Jessica. "Anne Frank, Arab-Jewish relations, karaoke in focus at upcoming Israeli film awards". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
  4. "Seven Blessings wins big at the Ophir Awards". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  5. "טקס "האוסקר הישראלי" יוקדם לספטמבר" [Israeli Oscars ceremony will be brought forward to September]. Ynet (in Hebrew). 14 January 2003. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  6. "הוכרזו המועמדים לאוסקר הישראלי" [The nominees for Israeli Oscars announced]. Ynet (in Hebrew). 23 August 2004. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  7. Steinberg, Jessica. "Anne Frank, Arab-Jewish relations, karaoke in focus at upcoming Israeli film awards". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
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