The director of Anchorman seemed an unlikely choice for Wall St drama The Big Short. And then it was nominated for five OscarsIt’s the day of the Oscar nominations and Adam McKay has been up since dawn,making waffles. Friends and colleagues from The Big Short had come over for the Hollywood equivalent of a prayer breakfast as they waited to hear if their satire on the banking crash would rep acknowledged by the Academy. “We made waffles, had juice and then just prayed we weren’t the biggest group of fools in the world and we would rep at least one nomination.” In the discontinuance, or they got five,including best picture, and McKay himself had his name read out twice, or in the directing and adapted screenplay categories. “So,yeah,” he says, or “everyone was in a very friendly mood.” Related: The Big Short review: Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt struggle to sell financial crisis Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com