24 January 3 • 2019
jn
24 January 3 • 2019
jn
24 January 3 • 2019
jn

NATE BLOOM COLUMNIST

It’
s Awards Season! See
who’
s Jewish at the Golden
Globes and SAG Awards.

T

he Golden Globe awards are
being televised live this year on
NBC, on Sunday, Jan. 6, at 8 p.m.
Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg, 40, will
host. Below are the confirmed Jewish
nominees and a number of Jews closely
connected to a nominated film or TV
program. Globes are given for excellence
in TV
, as well as in film.

FILM CATEGORIES
No Jewish thespians were nominat-
ed for a leading actor/actress film
role. Timothée Chalamet (Beautiful
Boy), 22, is up for the best supporting
actor Globe and Rachel Weisz (The
Favourite), 48, is a best supporting film
actress nominee. Chalamet’
s role was
based on the real-life Nic Sheff, now 36,
who long battled drug addiction. Weisz
played Lady Sarah Churchill, a historical
figure who was involved in 18th-century
royal court intrigue.
Mark Ronson, 43, is nominated
for co-writing a best song nomi-
nee: “Shallow” from A Star is Born.
Nominated for best original score are
Justin Hurwitz (First Man), 33, and
Marc Shaiman (Mary Poppins Returns),
59. Hurwitz won two Oscars in 2017 for
best score and best song (La La Land).
Shaiman is best known for his score for
the musical version of Hairspray. As
noted in a recent column, brief musi-
cal references are made in the Poppins
remake to the mega-hit score of the
original 1964 Poppins film. Richard
Sherman, 90, who wrote the ’
64 score
with his late brother, Robert, consulted
on the new Poppins film.

TV CATEGORIES
Acting: Sacha Baron Cohen (Who is
America?), 47, and Michael Douglas
(The Kominsky Method), 74, vie for the
Globe for best actor in a comedy. The
varied characters Cohen plays frequent-
ly spoof real-life politicians. Douglas
stars as Sandy Kominsky, an L.A. acting
coach; two Jewish actresses, Alison Brie
(Glow), 35, and Debra Messing (Will
& Grace), 50, compete for best actress,
TV comedy; Alan Arkin, 84, who plays
Kominsky’
s (Jewish) agent and best
friend in The Kominsky Method, is up
for best supporting actor. He competes
with Henry Winkler (Barry), 73; Alex
Borstein, 47, who plays Mrs. Maisel’
s
agent in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,
is nominated for a best supporting

actress Globe. Finally, Patricia Arquette
(Escape at Dannemora), 50, whose
late mother was Jewish, is up for best
actress, mini-series/TV movie.

“BEST” AWARDS: FILM AND TV
The Globes for best film and best
TV show are given to the movie
or series’
principal producers,
of whom there are many. My
practice is to note if a Jewish
director or writer/creator is
associated with that film or TV
program. Two films nominated for
best drama film were co-written
by Jews: BlacKkKlansman (Charlie
Wachtel and David Rabinowitz, both
32) and A Star is Born (Eric Roth, 73).
Also: A best animated film nominee,
Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse, was
co-written by Rodney Rothman,
45ish.
The Americans, created by Joe
Weisberg, 52, is up for best TV
series, drama. It competes with
Pose, an FX drama series that
explores several New York City
sub-cultures as they existed in the
1980s. Pose was co-created by
Brad Falchuk, 47. Another best
drama nominee, the Amazon
series Homecoming was based
on a podcast written by Eli
Horowitz, 41, and Micah
Bloomberg, 40ish. Horowitz
and Bloomberg were heavily
involved in the creation of the
TV series.
The best musical or com-
edy series nominees include
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,
co-created by Amy Sherman
Palladino, 52, and The
Kominsky Method, cre-
ated by Chuck Lorre,
66. The nominees for
best mini-series or
TV movie include A
Very English Scandal, a
British series shown on
Amazon. It was directed
by Brit Stephen Frears,
77. Scandal competes
with Escape in Dannemora,
which was directed by Ben
Stiller, 53, and co-written by
Jerry Stahl, 64, and Michael
Tolkin, 68. Stahl’
s memoir
about being drug-addicted,
Permanent Midnight, was
made into a movie in 1999,

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lm
arts&life

(Escape at Dannemora), 50, whose
late mother was Jewish, is up for best
actress, mini-series/TV movie.

“BEST” AWARDS: FILM AND TV
The Globes for best film and best
TV show are given to the movie
or series’
principal producers,

of whom there are many. My
practice is to note if a Jewish
director or writer/creator is
associated with that film or TV
program. Two films nominated for
best drama film were co-written
by Jews: BlacKkKlansman (Charlie
Wachtel and
l
David Rabinowitz, both

32) and A Star is Born (Eric Roth, 73).
Also: A best animated film nominee,
Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse, was
co-written by Rodney Rothman,
45ish.

The Americans, created by Joe

Weisberg, 52, is up for best TV
series, drama. It competes with
Pose, an FX drama series that
explores several New York City
sub-cultures as they existed in the
1980s. Pose was co-created by
e

Brad Falchuk, 47. Another best
drama nominee, the Amazon
series Homecoming was based
g

on a podcast written by Eli
Horowitz, 41, and Micah
Bloomberg, 40ish. Horowitz
and Bloomberg were heavily
involved in the creation of the
TV series.

The best musical or com-

edy series nominees include
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,
co-created by Amy Sherman
Palladino, 52, and The
Kominsky Method, cre-
ated by Chuck Lorre,
66. The nominees for
best mini-series or
TV movie include A
Very English Scandal, a
British series shown on
Amazon. It was directed
by Brit Stephen Frears,
77. Scandal competes
l

with Escape in Dannemora,
which was directed by Ben
Stiller, 53, and co-written by
Jerry Stahl, 64, and Michael
Tolkin, 68. Stahl’
s memoir

about being drug-addicted,
Permanent Midnight, was
t

made into a movie in 1999

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for our
Closeup

Andy Samberg
Mark Ronson

Sacha Baron Cohen
Debra Messing

Alex Borstein
Micah Bloomberg and Eli Horowitz
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