Arts & Entertainment
Main Line Native Gets Oscar Noms For Dick Cheney Biopic
The film "Vice" was written and directed by a son of the Main Line and it just got eight Academy Award nominations.
MAIN LINE, PA — 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 is from right here on the Main Line.
And his most recent film earned him some Oscar nominations.
As nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were announced recently, Malvern native Adam McKay got three Oscar nominations for his Dick Cheney biopic "Vice."
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McKay, 50 and a Great Valley School District alumus, 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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