Golden Globes Snubs: 'Mank,' 'Promising Young Woman' Among Top Film Nominees Shut Out

Amanda Seyfried has scored her first Oscar nomination, for her role as Marion Davies in David Fincher's biographical dramaMank. Her nod is one of 10 for the 1930s-set film aboutalcoholic screenwriter Herman J.

Academy Awards — delayed two months by the coronavirus pandemic — with 10 nominations, including best picture, best director, acting nods for Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, and a host of others for its lavish craft.  The rest were spread among a wide variety of contenders.

Minari, Sound of Metal, Promising Young Woman and Judas and the Black Messiah are just some of the films up for gongs this yearPriyanka Chopra and her husband, Nick Jonas, have announced the nominees of this year's Oscars, with David Fincher’s black and white film Mank taking the lead with 10 nominations in total.

Oscar nominations still offered moments of confusion, from Lakeith Stanfield’s unusual Best Supporting Actor nod, to the maligned Hillbilly Elegy’s general presence. If the 10 nods for David Fincher’s Mank came as a pleasant surprise, as well as the love for the family drama Minari in the acting categories, there were also significant omissions.

David Fincher's Mank led the pack with 10 nominations as the 93rd Oscars were announced Monday morning. The 1930s-set film, which centers on alcoholic screenwriter Herman J.

It’s a diverse year at the 2021 Oscars.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Mank,” an ode to Hollywood’s golden age that was produced and released by Netflix, one of the companies reshaping the movie business, led the nominations for the 93 Academy Awards.

David Fincher’s “Mank” scored the most Oscar nominations on Monday morning, leading the count with 10 nods including the coveted Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress and Best Actor.The film also received nominations in the categories Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Makeup and Hair and Best Production Design.Priyanka Chopra Jonas and her husband, Nick Jonas, announced the nominees in all 23 categories on Monday.The 93rd Oscars will

David Fincher made his return to feature filmmaking after a six-year absence with “Mank,” and it doesn’t look like he’s letting his momentum stop. The filmmaker revealed the projects he’s currently working on, including a TV series where he talks with special guests about the movies they love.

Did you like “Mank” but really wish it was about “The Godfather” and not in black and white? And not directed by David Fincher? And not about “Citizen Kane?” Well, okay, maybe Barry Levinson’s upcoming film about the making of “The Godfather” doesn’t share too much with Fincher’s award-winning Netflix film, but they’re both about the making of classic films and they’re both getting pretty great casts.

The Directors Guild of America on Tuesday announced the feature-film and first-time director nominees for the 2021 DGA Awards. The feature-film director nominees are Minari's Lee Isaac Chung, Promising Young Woman's Emerald Fennell, Mank's David Fincher, Trial of the Chicago 7's Aaron Sorkin and Nomadland's Chloé Zhao.

On Mank, VFX supervisor Wei Zheng paired state-of-the-art technology with old-school filmmaking techniques, to help David Fincher craft a singular portrait of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Marking Zheng’s sixth collaboration with the director, the Netflix drama follows alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman), as he finishes the script for Citizen Kane.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorErik Messerschmidt calls David Fincher’s process “precise.” And it is the greatest compliment. That precision is what Fincher is renowned for, his detail.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorCostume designer Trish Summerville, who has previously worked with David Fincher on “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and “Gone Girl,” says she was very excited when she learned the director wanted to do a full project in black-and-white. The only time she had ever tackled crafting costumes was in flashback sequences, not a full-length feature.

When makeup and hair designers Gigi Williams and Kimberly Spiteri were approached for Mank, they jumped at the chance to craft looks for an Old Hollywood drama, set in an era they both loved.

Mank, was one of the most nominated going into the award ceremony, with the potential to win in big categories like best director, screenplay and drama motion picture. But the black-and-white ode to old Hollywood failed to net a single win, leaving the auteur with a choice: do the fake clap and smile, or indulge in a little.

The Golden Globes 2021 was full of dramatic moments and significant speeches as well as some technical glitches as the awards show was held virtually this year. This year's Golden Globes had quite a few surprises and snubs as a few shows and films did not make the cut.

Variety breaks down the biggest snubs and other surprises of the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards.David Fincher’s “Mank” led the film nominations with six nods and felt like it had a few possibilities to win, from director Fincher to supporting actress Amanda Seyfried to the score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who ended up losing to themselves (and Jon Batiste) for “Soul.” But it ended the night empty-handed.