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Vanessa Redgrave: Tony Award
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Vanessa Redgrave is known worldwide for her stage and film performances, and as an author and director. As an artist, she has won many of the world’s most prestigious awards and honours. She is equally well-known as a passionate activist in the cause of children, and in the causes of peace, tolerance and reconciliation.
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[E]ven this faux pas would be easily eclipsed that year by the controversy surrounding Vanessa Redgrave and her Best Supporting Actress win. When Redgrave accepted her statuette for her gripping portrayal of a Nazi fighter in Julia, she gave a lengthy speech/diatribe. At one point, the British actress thanked the Academy for recognizing her despite "the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums." The crowd gasped; some booed. Later, Paddy Chayefsky chastised her to much applause: "I am sick and tired of people exploiting the Academy Awards for the propagation of their own personal propaganda."
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Redgrave's performance in Julia garnered an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. However, members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, picketed the awards ceremony in the spring of 1978 to protest against both Redgrave and her support of the Palestinian cause.
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