Ruth Bader Ginsberg documentary nominated for Oscar

“RGB,” about the life and impact of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, receives an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.

The Oscar nominations are announced today. The 2019 awards ceremony will take place on February 24.

“BlackkKlansman,” a film about a Jewish cop who teams up with an African-American detective to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, is one of eight films nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Adam Driver, who plays the Jewish police officer, is nominated for best supporting actor in the same film, which also nabs a Best Director nomination for Spike Lee.

Rachel Weisz is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for portraying a friend of England’s Queen Anne in the 18th-century costume dramedy “The Favorite.” The film also picks up a Best Picture nomination and seven other nominations, including Best Costumes.

Composer Marc Shaiman is nominated for Best Original Score for “Mary Poppins Returns,” and for Best Original Song, “The Place Where Lost Things Go,” from the same film. “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born” also receives a Best Original Song nomination for the writing and producing team which includes Jewish songwriter, producer and DJ Marc Ronson.

Filmmakers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen receive the nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”

“Roma,” a drama which follows the life of a live-in housekeeper to an upper-middle-class family in Mexico City, also receives 10 nominations, including Best Picture, followed by “A Star is Born” and “Vice” with eight. “Black Panther,” with seven nominations, becomes the first superhero movie to be nominated for Best Picture.

— JTA