has been near the top of the heap this awards season, scoring the most nominations at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards and a place on the AFI Top 10 movies of 2020 for the take on the relationship of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles during the writing of the iconicThose noms include posthumous recognition for the screenplay, written by Fincher’s father Jack, who died in 2003.
The evolution of the script, as Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. put it after its Globes nomination: “After retiring, [. He chose the evolution of Herman Mankiewicz from a tipsy intellectual script doctor to a man who found his courage in authorship on a movie that took on his benefactor, William Randolph Hearst. Jack Fincher could not get anyone to bite on his script while he was alive.
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