“Mank” only won two Oscars. And now this?
It’s been a rough week for Herman J. Mankiewicz, better known as MANK. The Netflix film bearing his name only won two of the 10 Academy Awards it was nominated for, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design, which is still one more Oscar than Citizen Kane won in 1942. (It famously lost Best Picture, then called Outstanding Motion Picture, to the dreadfully boring How Green Was My Valley.) Mank’s masterpiece with Orson Welles is also no longer part of the 100% Club on Rotten Tomatoes, which would infuriate the two writers if they knew what the internet was and weren’t long dead.
