Comedian Kumail Ali Nanjiani sparked fury after making a joke about Schindler’s List while presenting an award at the Oscars.
The 47-year-old made a remark where he referred to the film as Schindler’s Post-it note.
The 1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg is based on the story of Oskar Schindler, portrayed by Liam Neeson, who saved 1,200 Jews from the Nazis.
One person posted: ‘Can’t say that Schindler’s List joke was uh in any good taste!’
Another added: ‘A list isn’t a form of stationery, so ‘Schindler’s post-it’ doesn’t make any sense. bad joke.’
‘That was as CHEAP leftist antisemitic comment by this f***, Kumail Nanjiani… Schindler’s Post-It. Don’t invite him back’, another said.
One other said: ‘Why the f*** would you make a joke about short films Schindliers Post-it?’
Nanjiani was handing out the award for Best Live Action Short on Sunday when he made the remark.
The 47-year-old made a remark where he referred to the film as Schindler’s Post-it note
Social media users immediately reacted negatively to the comment
The award ended up being a tie between The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva.
‘And the Oscar goes to — it’s a tie! I’m not joking, it’s actually a tie,’ the comedian said. ‘Everyone, calm down, we’re going to get through this’, he said.
The most recent tie came during the 2013 Oscars honoring films from 2012, when ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and ‘Skyfall’ tied for the sound editing category.
There have been five other ties in Oscars history, making Sunday’s tie the seventh.
The 98th Academy Awards are celebrating the best films of 2025, with the glitzy ceremony taking place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners leads the pack with a record-breaking 16 nominations, the most for any film in Academy Awards history.
The horror flick is one of the ten films up for Best Picture alongside Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams.
