As I noted yesterday, the nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were announced early this morning (too late for the regular Media Monday post). To see the full list, head on over to the official Oscars page. Several crime dramas got some recognition this year, including BlacKkKlansman for Best Picture of the year, Best Director (Spike Lee), and Best Supporting Actor (Adam Driver). Melissa McCarthy continued her awards season roll with a Best Actress nomination for her role as celebrity letter forger Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
In the Best Adapted Screenplay category, BlacKkKlansman scored a nod (for Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee), as did Can You Ever Forgive Me? (screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty). Although not crime per se, another novel adaptation made the cut for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Harlem love story If Beale Street Could Talk, which is based on a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin.
I don't usually include superhero-style movies as crime dramas in the Media Murder reports, as they are as much a combination of fantasy and sci-fi as crime, but it's worth noting that Black Panther has made Academy Awards history by becoming the first superhero movie to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. The film was also nominated in six other categories, Best Original Score, Best Original Song (for Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "All the Stars"), Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Production Design and Best Costume Design.
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