By NardiNe Saad

Tribune News Service

First-time Oscar nomi-nee Scarlett Johansson achieved a rare feat on Monday when she was nominated for two acting honors, which will be doled out at the 92nd Academy Awards next month.

The actress received a lead actress nod for her heartbreaking portrayal of a woman whose mar-riage falls apart in Noah Baumbach’s drama “Marriage Story” and a supporting actress nomi-nation as a German mother secretly working against Hitler’s Nazi regime during WWII in Taika Waititi’s quirky comedy “Jojo Rabbit.”

Johansson is hardly the first actor to be rec-ognized in dual acting categories in a single year, though the double nomination in that field hasn’t occurred since Cate Blanchett was rec-ognized for the 2007 films “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” and “I’m Not There.” It’s also fairly common to see multi-hyphenates receive mul-tiple nominations across categories such as direct-ing, writing, producing and other technical fields if they take on multiple roles in an exemplary production.

No one, however, has won both lead and sup-porting actor accolades in a single year. An acad-emy rule also bars multi-ple nominations for the same performance, which came about after “Going My Way” actor Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for both lead actor and supporting actor. (He won the sup-porting actor prize for his performance as a priest opposite Bing Crosby in the 1944 film; then the rule was

changed.)Unlike with the Gold-

en Globes and BAFTAs, motion picture academy rules also stipulate that a performer cannot be nominated twice in the same category in the same year (i.e., Johans-son could not have been nominated for lead actress for both “Mar-riage Story” and “Jojo Rabbit,” or Brad Pitt could not have been nominated for lead actor this year for both “Ad Astra” and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”). If the same actor gets enough votes to have two performances nominat-ed in the same category, the performance with fewer votes is disquali-fied.

Here’s a list of those who also have achieved dual acting nominations for films that came out in the same year, with an asterisk noting a win.

1938: Fay Bainter for “White Banners” and “Jezebel”*

1942: Teresa Wright for “The Pride of the Yan-kees” and “Mrs. Mini-ver”*

1944: Barry Fitzgerald for “Going My Way”

1982: Jessica Lange for “Frances” and “Tootsie”*

1988: Sigourney Weav-er for “Gorillas in the Mist” and “Working Girl”

1992: Al Pacino for “Scent of a Woman”* and “Glengarry Glen Ross”

1993: Holly Hunter for “The Piano”* and “The Firm”

1993: Emma Thomp-son for “The Remains of the Day” and “In the Name of the Father”

2002: Julianne Moore for “Far From Heaven” and “The Hours”

2004: Jamie Foxx for “Ray”* and “Collateral”

2007: Cate Blanchett for “Elizabeth: The Gold-en Age” and “I’m Not There”

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‘Joker’ tops this year’s Oscar nominations, with ‘1917,’ ‘Irishman,’ ‘Once Upon a Time’

close behindBy JoSh rotteNBerg

Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES — An awards sea-son that had been short on clarity and long on surprises came into focus Monday morning as the nomi-nations for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced, with nine films representing a wide range of genres earning best picture nods and the dark comic-book smash “Joker” leading the field with 11 nomina-tions.

Following closely behind with 10 nominations apiece, including best picture, are the World War I epic “1917,” Quentin Tarantino’s 1960s fantasia “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic “The Irishman.” Along with “Joker,” the other nominees for best picture are “Ford v Ferrari,” “Jojo Rabbit,” “Little Women,” “Mar-riage Story” and “Parasite,” the latter of which became the first South Korean film to earn a nod for the academy’s top prize.

Nominees for director are Scors-ese, Todd Phillips (“Joker”), Sam Mendes (“1917”), Tarantino and Bong Joon Ho (“Parasite”). It was a shutout for female directors, with potential nominees including Greta Gerwig (“Little Women”), Lulu Wang (“The Farewell”) and Marielle Heller (“A Beautiful Day in the Neighbor-hood”) failing to make the cut.

In the fiercely competitive lead actor category, Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“Once Upon a Time”), Adam Driver (“Marriage Story”), Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”) and Jona-than Pryce (“The Two Popes”) all scored nominations.

Nominees for lead actress are Cyn-thia Erivo (“Harriet”), Scarlett Johan-sson (“Marriage Story”), Soairse Ronan (“Little Women”), Charlize Theron (“Bombshell”) and Renée Zellweger (“Judy”).

The supporting actress nominees are Kathy Bates (“Richard Jewell”), Laura Dern (“Marriage Story”), Scar-lett Johansson (“Jojo Rabbit”), Flor-ence Pugh (“Little Women”) and Margot Robbie (“Bombshell”). In one of the morning’s notable snubs, Jennifer Lopez, who had been con-sidered a strong contender for her performance in “Hustlers,” failed to earn a nod.

Johansson’s nominations for lead and supporting actress, which are her first Oscar nominations, make her only the 12th performer to earn double nominations for acting in a single year. (The last performer to achieve it was Cate Blanchett in 2007.)

The supporting actor nominees are Tom Hanks (“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”), Anthony Hop-kins (“The Two Popes”), Al Pacino (“The Irishman”), Joe Pesci (“The Irishman”) and Brad Pitt (“Once Upon a Time”).

On the diversity front, the acade-my narrowly avoided a reprise of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that had dogged it in recent years. But only by a single nomination. With Lopez left off the list, along with such other contenders as “The Farewell” star Awkwafina and “Us” star Lupita Nyong’o and “Just Mercy” support-ing actor Jamie Foxx, Erivo was the only person of color among this year’s acting nominees.

Netflix made a strong showing with 24 nominations, the most of any

studio. But although the streaming giant has made steady gains in its pursuit of Oscar glory — last year it earned 15 nominations, and in 2018 it earned eight — it remains to be seen whether it can go the distance and take home the best picture tro-phy it has long coveted. At this year’s Golden Globes, Netflix managed to convert its 17 film nominations into just a single win.

Nominees for international feature are “Corpus Christi” (Poland), “Hon-eyland” (North Macedonia), “Les Misérables” (France), “Pain and Glory” (Spain) and “Parasite” (South Korea). Mati Diop’s supernatural romance “Atlantics,” which Netflix acquired for release out of the Cannes Film Festival, was among the most notable snubs after it cracked the category’s 10-film shortlist of potential nominees.

On the nonfiction side, the nomi-nees for documentary feature are “American Factory,” “The Cave,” “The Edge of Democracy,” “For Sama” and “Honeyland.” The acade-my’s documentary branch has a well-documented history of snub-bing commercial successes, and this year’s box office hit “Apollo 11” — like last year’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” — failed to earn a nod.

The animation category delivered another unexpected snub, with the juggernaut sequel “Frozen 2,” which recently became the highest-grossing animated film of all time worldwide, failing to earn a nomination. The nominees are “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,” “I Lost My Body,” “Klaus,” “Missing Link” and “Toy Story 4.”

Scarlett Johansson doubles up in Oscars acting nods. That hasn’t happened in 13 years

Filmmakers promise new info on Zodiac Killer case

By ChuCk BarNey

Tribune News Service

PASADENA, Calif. — What more is to be said about the Zodiac Kill-er? The serial murderer who terror-ized the Bay Area in the late 1960s has been the subject of numerous

films, books and TV shows.And now an upcoming docu-

mentary series on FX is promising fresh information connected to the legendary cold case.

“Oh, yeah, we definitely found stuff out that nobody knew,” says Ross Dinerstein, executive produc-er of “The Most Dangerous Animal of All.” “ … We connected some dots that people never connected before. A lot of new stuff will be revealed.”

“The Most Dangerous Animal of All” is a four-part series based on the 2014 book by Gary Stewart. It explores Stewart’s obsessive search for the biological parents who abandoned him as a child and how he came to believe that his father — Earl Van Best — was the Zodiac Killer. The series debuts on FX and Hulu in March.

Dinerstein and director Kief Davidson appeared in a panel dis-cussion at the Television Critics Association press tour to promote their documentary. To avoid spoil-ers, the filmmakers didn’t go into details. But they revealed that much of their new information is connected to how investigators handled — or mishandled — the

case.“Part of the reason why the Zodi-

ac case was not solved was due to a lead detective’s obsession,” David-son said. “I can’t reveal too much more because, actually, there’s an element in the Zodiac case that’s really not been talked about before that we uncovered and got people to talk about how that explains why it wasn’t solved in the 1970s.”

Davidson went went on to say that there existed a “culture within the (San Francisco) police depart-ment that you don’t talk, you don’t rat out your fellow officers. I wouldn’t go as far to say that there was a cover up, per se, but there is certainly information that these former detectives were not talking about that I ultimately did get them to talk about.”

Davidson, who says he isn’t a true-crime buff, says he prepared for the project by immersing him-self in previous Zodiac-related doc-umentaries and came away unim-pressed.

“I found that, by and large, they were all very sensational, rehashing stories that have just been told over and over and over again,” he said. “They just didn’t do their own deep dive. They didn’t do the work.”

HarperCollins “The Most Dangerous Animal of All” by Gary L. Stewart

Actor Harry Hains, son of ‘V’ actress Jane Badler, dies at 27

By NardiNe Saad

Tribune News Service

Australian actor Harry Hains, who made brief appearances in the TV series “American Horror Story,” “The OA” and “Sneaky Pete,” has died. He was 27.

Hains died Tuesday after struggling with mental ill-ness and addiction, his mother, “V” actress and sing-er Jane Badler, wrote Thursday on Instagram. She did not specify her son’s cause of death.

“A brilliant spark shone bright too short a time .. I will miss you Harry every day of my life,” she added, sharing a montage of photos featuring Hains.

Hains also starred in and produced the 2015 romance “The Surface” and was set to appear in the sci-fi miniseries “Xtra Life” and a thriller titled “Klowns.”

“Fuller House” star John Stamos offered his condo-lences to Badler and a tribute to the actor in the post’s comments.

“I’m heartbroken. Harry truly was one of the brightest, most charismatic, charming guys I’ve ever met. His sense of humor and kindness helped get me through a dark time and I will forever be grateful,” Stamos wrote. “In the song ‘Starry, Starry Night, Don McLean sings about Vincent Van Gogh. — ‘This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you’ I’m so sorry for your loss, Jane. I will never forget your son.”

A service will be held for Hains at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery at 3 p.m. Sunday.