The organization that bestows the Academy Awards has apologized to “No Other Land” co-director Hamdan Ballal after mounting criticism following its response to the violent attack on the Oscar winner.

The film academy faces heat from hundreds of members over its vague, 'indefensible' response to the recent attack on 'No Other Land' co-director Hamdan Ballal.

Ballal left a West Bank police station Tuesday with “bruises on his face and blood on his clothes,” according to Associated Press journalists on the scene.