Looks like the Academy wiped Israel off the map.

Via AP:

Complete list of 86th Annual Academy Award nominations announced Thursday […]

7. Foreign Language Film: “The Broken Circle Breakdown,” Belgium; “The Great Beauty,” Italy; “The Hunt,” Denmark; “The Missing Picture,” Cambodia; “Omar,” Palestine.

As the Times of Israel notes, the film was shot in Israel.

Director Hany Abu-Assad is heading back to the Oscars — with what he insists is a Palestinian movie, even though it was filmed in Israel, with several Israeli actors. And the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences agrees with him.

The Nazareth-born filmmaker, who carries Israeli citizenship but identifies himself as a Palestinian, earned the second Oscar nomination of his career on Thursday when his feature film “Omar” was announced as one of the five films selected for this year’s Best Foreign Film category.

“Omar,” a romantic thriller filmed in Nazareth and the West Bank, earned considerable buzz since its debut at Cannes last year and was widely tipped to make it all the way to the Academy Awards. The film is notable in that it was made with an all-Palestinian crew and almost entirely with Palestinian funds (raised from a global network of local Palestinians and expats), making it the first-ever truly Palestinian film to see wide success.

Abu-Assad told The Times of Israel that he didn’t want to compromise on any aspect of “Omar,” a West Bank love story about a Palestinian youth forced to become a collaborator to the Israelis.