Oscar winners like Alfonso Cuarón and Olivia Colman had signed an open statement criticizing the Academy's response to the brutal attack and arrest of the "No Other Land" co-director.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has sent out a statement to its 11,000 members following mounting criticism over its lack of public support for Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land,

The Israeli and Palestinian directors behind "No Other Land" aren't alone in their disappointment in the film academy's lackluster response to the recent attack on and detainment of Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal.