Tugend, Tom: Jews Flop in Big Oscar Award Wins (angol nyelven). Jewish Journal, 2004. március 5. [2005. április 9-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2017. október 18.) „There was a dollop of consolation in the best actor win for Sean Penn, son of the late Jewish television director Leo Penn. The elder Penn was the grandson and great-grandson of rabbis and the son of Russian and Lithuanian immigrants, whose surname, Piñon, was anglicized at Ellis Island... Leo Penn was married to Catholic actress Eileen Ryan and, according to reports, Sean and his two brothers were raised in a secular home.”
Tugend, Tom: Jews Flop in Big Oscar Award Wins (angol nyelven). Jewish Journal, 2004. március 5. [2005. április 9-i dátummal az eredetiből archiválva]. (Hozzáférés: 2017. október 18.) „There was a dollop of consolation in the best actor win for Sean Penn, son of the late Jewish television director Leo Penn. The elder Penn was the grandson and great-grandson of rabbis and the son of Russian and Lithuanian immigrants, whose surname, Piñon, was anglicized at Ellis Island... Leo Penn was married to Catholic actress Eileen Ryan and, according to reports, Sean and his two brothers were raised in a secular home.”