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One of the most powerful moments from the 2026 Oscars didn\u2019t come from one of the many celebrity attendees. All the Empty Rooms took home the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film during the Sunday, March 15, awards ceremony. Filmmakers Joshua Seftel<\/a> and Conall Jones<\/a> and broadcaster Steve Hartman<\/a> took to the Oscars stage to accept the award, along with another special guest. Seftel began his acceptance speech by thanking The Academy, Netflix<\/a>, and the documentary short\u2019s \u201cincredibly compassionate filmmaking team.\u201d He added, \u201cThe empty rooms in our film belong to four young children who were all killed in school shootings: Hallie, Gracie, Dominic, and Jackie.\u201d Seftel went on to…<\/div>\n

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One of the most powerful moments from the 2026 Oscars didn\u2019t come from one of the many celebrity attendees. All the Empty Rooms took home the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film during the Sunday, March 15, awards ceremony. Filmmakers Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones and broadcaster Steve Hartman took to the Oscars stage to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2330413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Grieving-Mother-Takes-Oscars-Stage-to-Share-Powerful-Message-About.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330415,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330413\/revisions\/2330415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}