It’s Hollywood’s biggest night on Sunday – the Oscars – when stars are anointed and future classics crowned. Except this year the pandemic, and a longer-term trend away from mass-market movies, mean the nominated films have struggled to cut through.
In case it passed you by, the leading contender for the Academy Awards this year with 10 nominations – four more than any other film – is Mank, Netflix’s black-and-white homage to old Hollywood, starring Gary Oldman as Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz.
It’s a movie about the making of one of the greatest movies ever made – the type of film the Oscars like, even if others are less keen.
Always a silver lining. We can thank the pandemic for hastening Hollywood’s implosion.
