A drama about Palestinian suicide bombers won the Golden Globe for best foreign-language film. “Paradise Now,” a Palestinian-Israeli coproduction, was honored at Monday night’s award ceremony in Los Angeles. The Golden Globes are widely seen as a bellwether of results at the more prestigious Academy Awards. While “Paradise Now” has been taken to task for presenting two suicide bombers sympathetically, it has raised eyebrows among Palestinians for criticizing the terrorist group that sends them on their deadly mission. The film has had limited distribution in Israel. Steven Spielberg’s “Munich,” the controversial movie about the Mossad’s hunt for the killers of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, did not win awards: Spielberg had been nominated for best director and the movie’s screenplay had also been nominated. Britain’s Rachel Weisz, the daughter of wartime Jewish refugees, received the best supporting actress award for her role in “The Constant Gardner.”
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