Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards include Rachel Weisz, nominee for best supporting actress in “The Favourite,” and a host of Jewish writers, composers, producers, and filmmakers.
Eric Roth scored a nomination for co-writing best picture nominee “A Star is Born,” and Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz are nominated for their screenplay for “BlacKKKlansman,” also a best picture nominee. Jason Blum is among its producers, and Jeremy Kleiner, who co-produced “Vice,” is nominated in the same category.
Nicole Holofcener got a nod for co-writing “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” and Joel and Ethan Coen were nominated for their screenplay for “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.” Though Melissa McCarthy isn’t Jewish, she plays Jewish writer Lee Israel in “Forgive Me” and her performance landed her a nomination for best actress.
On the music side, Marc Shaiman is a double nominee for his “Mary Poppins Returns” original score and best song contender “The Place Where Lost Things Go.” Marc Ronson is nominated for co-writing “Shallow” from “A Star is Born” and Diane Warren scored her tenth nomination for “I’ll Fight” from the Ruth Bader Ginsburg bio “RBG,” which also earned Julie Cohen and her co-director Betsy West a nod for best documentary.
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman got a nomination for their end-of-life documentary short “End Game,” and Marshall Curry was honored for his short film “A Night at the Garden,” about a neo-Nazi rally.
In the animated feature category, Scott Rudin is among the producers of “Isle of Dogs,” and Rodney Rothman got a nod as co-director of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
“Cold War” filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, whose paternal Jewish grandmother died at Auschwitz, is a double nominee, for best foreign film and best director.
The Academy Awards will air live Feb. 24 at 5 p.m. on ABC.
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