34 January 31 • 2019
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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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