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Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
‘Mank’ leads the nominees in the 93rd Oscars
BY JAY BOBBIN
Ben Mankiewicz would be interested in the Oscars
anyway, but this year, the film industry’s top event also is
very much a family matter for him.
The longtime Turner Classic Movies host is the grandson
of Herman J. Mankiewicz, the co-writer (with director and
title star Orson Welles) of 1941’s legendary “Citizen Kane”
– and the subject of “Mank,” the most-nominated picture
in the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, to be staged in the
coronavirus-pandemic era for the first time as ABC televises
it Sunday, April 25. The show will be broadcast principally
from Los Angeles’ Union Station, permitting social
distancing for attendees, while the traditional Oscar setting
of Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre still will be used for certain
elements of the special.
Nominated for best picture, “Mank” is in the running for
a total of 10 Oscars also including best actor (Gary Oldman),
supporting actress (Amanda Seyfried) and director (David
Fincher). “It’s a very particular movie about the struggles of
an artist who sort of hated himself and hated the business
and couldn’t get out of his own way,” Ben Mankiewicz
reflects, “but he was the guy everybody wanted to be around.
He was the smartest, funniest guy in the room.”
While he normally is analytical when it comes to movies,
Mankiewicz notes that “what makes me emotional” about
“Mank” is that his late father, veteran political insider Frank
Mankiewicz, “didn’t get to see this movie about his father. He
would have loved it. And to me, it is precisely how he talked
about his dad. Gary Oldman captured what my image was
Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman star in “Mank,”
the most-nominated film in the 93rd Oscar ceremony,
which ABC televises Sunday.
of my grandfather perfectly, and I imagine it is locked into
Gary Oldman for the rest of my life.”
Following are the nominees in several categories in the
93rd Oscars.
Best picture: “The Father”; “Judas and the Black Messiah”;
“Mank”; “Minari”; “Nomadland”; “Promising Young
Woman”; “Sound of Metal”; “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Best director: Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”; Emerald
Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”; David Fincher,
“Mank”; Thomas Vinterberg, “Another Round”; Chloé
Zhao, “Nomadland”
Best actor: Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”; Chadwick
Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”; Anthony Hopkins,
“The Father”; Gary Oldman, “Mank”; Steven Yeun,
“Minari”
Best actress: Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”;
Andra Day, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”; Vanessa
Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman”; Frances McDormand,
“Nomadland”; Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”
Best supporting actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Trial
of the Chicago 7”; Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black
Messiah”; Leslie Odom Jr., “One Night in Miami ...”; Paul
Raci, “Sound of Metal”; Lakeith Stanfield, “Judas and the
Black Messiah”
Best supporting actress: Maria Bakalova, “Borat
Subsequent Moviefilm”; Glenn Close, “Hillbilly Elegy”;
Olivia Colman, “The Father”; Amanda Seyfried, “Mank”;
Yuh-Jung Youn, “Minari”
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