Arts & Entertainment
Malvern Native Gets Oscar Nominations For Dick Cheney Biopic
The film "Vice" was written and directed by Adam McKay, a Great Valley alumnus, and it just got eight Academy Award nominations.
MALVERN, PA — Adam McKay is one of Hollywood's most successful filmmakers with numerous hit comedies starring Will Ferrell and later more serious films on the nation's economy and politics.
The most recent of which earned him some Oscar nominations.
Nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were announced recently, and McKay, a Great Valley School District alumus, got three Oscar nominations for his Dick Cheney biopic "Vice."
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The 50-year-old writer-director-producer has been nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Original Screenplay for Vice, which stars Christian Bale as Cheney, Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld, and Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney. All three actors have been nominated for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.
"Vice" was also nominated for Best Film Editing and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
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McKay won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in 2015 for "The Big Short," which focused on the financial crisis in 2008.
The 91st Academy Awards will be held at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24, and will air on ABC.
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