Mank, starring Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman, leads the pack with 10 Oscar nominations
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Netflix drama Mank leads the pack in this year’s Academy Award nominations, with 10 nods – showing that the Oscars are still a navel-gazing affair – but it has fierce competition in all of its categories, including Best Film. Since cinemas aren’t due to reopen in the UK until May 17, where and how can you see all these great movies?
How to watch Oscar-nominated movies
Mank
Hollywood lore always does well in awards season, and David Fincher’s black-and-white film about the writer of Citizen Kane, Herman J Mankiewicz, is no exception. It’s up for 10 awards, including Best Film and Best Actor for Gary Oldman, and you can see it now on Netflix.
The United States vs Billie Holiday
Directed by Lee Daniels
In cinemas now
In 1937, Communist trade unionist, Abel Meeropol wrote a song in response to a newspaper photograph of a ghastly lynching of two Black men in the United States South.
Billie Holiday, who was already an established jazz star, adopted the song,
Strange Fruit and turned it into an anthem.
Holiday would sing it at the end of her set at Harlem s Cafe Society, the first racially integrated night club in the US, which attracted a left-wing crowd.
All the stage lights were extinguished, the waiters would stop serving drinks and the crowd would be hushed. A spotlight would suddenly illuminate only Holiday s face as she began singing.
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âWe are not hanging on a tree any moreâ: Andra Day defies the racism that killed her idol
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Harry Anslinger was right to fear
Strange Fruit. When the man who would hunt Billie Holiday to her grave was running his vicious empire at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in the late 1930s, those 14 terse lines were probably the most horrific ever sung on an American stage.
More than 80 years later, when Andra Day sang of âBlack bodies swinginâ in the Southern breezeâ for Lee Danielsâ film,
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