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Yossef (Joseph) Cedar (Hebrew: יוסף סידר; born August 31, 1968) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He has won a Silver Bear and an Ophir Award for Best Director, and an Ophir Award for writing a Best Screenplay. He also won the best screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival for his film ''Footnote'' (2011).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Festival de Cannes: Official Selection )〕 ==Life and career== Cedar was born in New York City. When he was 6 his family moved to Israel, and he grew up in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood in Jerusalem. He studied in a Yeshiva High School. In the Israeli army he served as a paratrooper. After graduating in philosophy and history of theatre from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he studied cinema studies at New York University. When he returned to Israel, he started working on the screenplay for his debut film, ''Time of Favor'' (2000), for which he moved and lived for two years in the Israeli settlement Dolev. The film won six Ophir Awards, including Best Picture. His second film was ''Campfire'' (2004), which won five Ophir Awards including Best Picture, with two, Best Director and Best Screenplay, going to Cedar. For ''Beaufort'' (2007), his third film, he received the Silver Bear award for Best Director in the Berlin International Film Festival. ''Beaufort'' received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, the first such nomination for an Israeli film in 24 years.〔cf. List of Israeli submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film〕 It received four Ophir Awards and was based on Cedar's own experiences during his army service on Israel's border with Lebanon.〔(Joseph Cedar, Biography ).''Omanoot''〕 Cedar is an Orthodox Jew.〔(Oscar nominee resolves Shabbat dilemma ). ''The Jerusalem Post''.〕 His films are known to touch delicate issues of Israeli society. Israeli critic Yair Rave wrote, "One of the reasons I like Cedar's films so much is... his ability to merge the Israeli spirit... with the universal cinematic codes."〔 〕 His film ''Footnote'' premiered In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.〔 The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oscars 2012: Nominees in full )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Cedar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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