The screenwriter's grandson, Nick Davis, reveals what really led to his grandfather's no-show at the 1941 Academy Awards — the night he won the statuette for co-writing 'Citizen Kane.' By Nick Davis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gary Oldman's star turn in the new Netflix film Mank culminates in a scene where a highly inebriated Herman J. Mankiewicz berates ...

The hustle of show business means people not-infrequently have two projects hitting the market at the same time. Even so, filmmaker Nick Davis is the creative force behind one of the more unusual ...

A year after David Fincher’s film “Mank” was nominated for 10 Oscars, and two years since the publication of Sydney Ladensohn Stern’s acclaimed and award-winning “The Brothers Mankiewicz,” even a film ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The legend of the Mankiewicz brothers has always been with Nick Davis. Growing up, he was told that his grandfather, “Citizen Kane ...

Herman J. Mankiewicz, affectionately known as “Mank,” was born in New York City in 1897, but he spent his formative years in Wilkes-Barre. It was here that he became the youngest prep school graduate ...

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953; New York City) was an American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Earlier, he was the Berlin ...

In keeping with the Oscar tradition of honoring movies about movie making, the most nominated film of the year centers on a Hollywood screenwriter. “Mank” tells the story of Herman “Mank” Mankiewicz, ...

(Spoiler alert: Do not read on if you haven't seen David Fincher's "Mank.") In David Fincher's "Mank," Lily Collins' character Rita Alexander hears that her boss, "Citizen Kane" screenwriter Herman J.

A real story of old Hollywood, about a screenwriter everyone called "Mank," has garnered the most Oscar nominations with 10. NEW YORK -- What's It About: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the ...

Newspapers vigilantly protect their cherished Constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press. Occasionally some abuse that freedom. Such an abuse occurred in California last week as the incidental ...