Rachel Weisz has been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos’s hit about the life of Queen Anne. But Disobedience, set in the Orthodox community of Hendon, which Ms Weisz co-produced and starred in, was overlooked completely by the Academy.
Ms Weisz was the only Jew to get a nod in the acting categories, but two non-Jewish actors have been nominated for playing Jewish characters: Melissa McCarthy was tipped as Lead Actress for her performance as literary forger Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me?; and Adam Driver got the nod for Best Supporting Actor for playing a Jewish cop in Blackkklansman.
Film-making brothers Joel and Ethan Coen picked up an adapted screenplay nomination for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and song writers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman were nominated for the score of Mary Poppins Returns.
Both movies feature in the Best Original Song category, with Mr Shaiman and Mr Wittman listed for The Place Where Lost Things Go and Tim Blake Nelson for co-writing When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Mark Ronson also gets a co-writing nomination for Shallow from A Star is Born.
