34 January 31 • 2019
jn

OSCARS PREVIEW 
The Oscar nominations were announced 
on Jan. 22. The awards ceremony will 
be held on Sunday, Feb. 24, 
on ABC. My full coverage of 
the Jewish nominees will 
appear in the JN Feb. 21. 
Here are some of the Jewish 
nominees and a few related 
points of interest. 
Rachel Weisz, 48, is the 
only Jewish actor nominated 
for an acting award. She 
played Sarah Churchill in 
The Favourite, a British fi
 lm 
that explored Churchill’
s re-
lationship with Queen Anne, 
who co-ruled Great Britain in 
the early 18th century. 
Two non-Jewish actors, 
Adam Driver and Melissa 
McCarthy, are nominated 
for playing Jewish char-
acters. Driver played a 
Jewish police offi
 cer in 
Black KkKlansman and 
McCarthy played the late 
Lee Israel, a real-life Jewish 
journalist-turned-forger 
in Can You Ever Forgive 
Me? Another “real” Jewish 
person — Justice Ruth 
Bader Ginsburg, 85, is the 
subject of the documentary 
RBG, which is nominated 
for best feature (full-length) 
documentary. 
Four of the fi
 ves movies 
nominated for best adapted 
screenplay were co-written 
by Jewish nominees I will 
profi
 le Feb. 21. Nicholas 
Britell, 38, (If Beale Street 
Could Talk) and Marc 
Shaiman, 59, (The Return of 
Mary Poppins) are nominat-
ed for best original score. 
Shaiman scored another 
nomination (best song) for 
a tune he wrote for Poppins 
and vies in this category 
with Mark Ronson, 43, who 
co-wrote a nominated song 
from A Star is Born. 
There are Jewish nominees, who I will 
cover in my Feb. 21 article, in the animat-
ed fi
 lm category and the best documen-

tary categories (full-length and short). I 
do want to highlight here the nominations 
of Jamie Ray Newman, 40, and her 
Israeli husband, Guy Nattiv, 45. Skin, a 
fi
 lm they co-produced, is nominated for 
best short subject fi
 lm. Newman grew up 
in Farmington Hills, attended Hillel Day 
School and graduated from 
Cranbrook. She’
s had a very 
good, if not spectacular, 
acting career (mostly in TV) 
for the last 15 years. She 
married her husband in Tel 
Aviv in 2012. A full feature 
version of Skin, also called 
Skin, got good reviews 
at the 2018 Toronto Film 
Festival and was picked 
up for national distribution 
sometime this year. The 
full-length version, like the 
short version, was co-pro-
duced by Newman and 
was directed and written by 
Nattiv. It stars Jamie Bell as 
a neo-Nazi skinhead who 
risked his life to leave a 
white supremacist group. 
It’
s based on a true story. 
Look for an interview with 
Newman and Nattiv in the 
Feb. 7 JN. 

BRIEFLY NOTED
The original Netfl
 ix black 
comedy series Russian Doll 
premieres on Feb. 1. It has 
kind of a Groundhog Day 
premise. Natasha Lyonne, 
39, who co-created the 
series, stars as Nadia, who 
is the guest of honor at a 
party. Nadia’
s problem is 
that time and time again 
she fi
 nds herself going 
to this same party, dying, 
being mysteriously revived 
and doing it all again the 
next day.
Cold War, a Polish fi
 lm 
about a romantic couple 
that takes place in the 
1940s through the 1960s, 
will open at the Maple 
Theater in Bloomfi
 eld Hills 
on Feb. 1. It’
s a best foreign 
language fi
 lm Oscar nomi-
nee. Appearing in a support-
ing role (“Michel”) is Cedric Kahn, 52, a 
French director and actor well-known in 
France. ■

NATE BLOOM

COLUMNIST

Rachel Weisz

Marc Shaiman

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Cedric Kahn

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