The film is often brutal, featuring disturbing images of razed houses, crying children, bereft mothers and even on-camera shootings. (Israel’s Supreme Court ruled the government has the right to clear the area depicted in the film.) And it entered a perennially supercharged political climate at an especially sensitive moment, debuting within months of Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s response in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.

The politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are especially prominent in Hollywood. Last year, the entertainment executive Ari Emanuel, who is Jewish, drew boos after criticizing Israel’s conservative prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, while accepting an award from a major Jewish group in Los Angeles.

And at last year’s Oscars ceremony, the British director Jonathan Glazer, who is also Jewish, compared aspects of his Holocaust film, “The Zone of Interest,” to elements of the present conflict — an acceptance speech that provoked dueling letters condemning and defending it. At the same ceremony, some attendees wore pins distributed by Artists4Ceasefire, a group that was then calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.

At this year’s ceremony, the speeches by Adra and Abraham, who were joined onstage by their two other directors, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor, were greeted with applause. The Australian actor Guy Pearce, a best supporting actor nominee who wore a “Free Palestine” lapel pin on the Oscars red carpet, could be seen on television encouraging the filmmakers on as they passed him on their way to the stage.

During his acceptance speech, Abraham seemed aware of the prominent stage he had. Calling for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that provides national rights for both peoples, he said, “I have to say, as I am here, the foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path.”