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6x Golden Globe® Nominations
including
Best Motion Picture - Drama
In the annals of Hollywood, Herman Mankiewicz will forever be remembered as the screenwriter of Orson Welles’s towering classic Citizen Kane, but his impact on the history of cinema doesn’t stop there. Mankiewicz also served as an early, uncredited writer on The Wizard of Oz. His contribution? Suggesting that once Dorothy Gale travels over the rainbow, the film transitions from black and white to glorious Technicolor. "He walked away from that [project] saying, ‘This is all I can come up with,’" laughs director David Fincher. "It might be the greatest special effect in the history of the movies."
[READ] Learn more about how Mank, the black and white tribute to Old Hollywood, took a radically different approach to the role of color in design.
[WATCH] Method to the Monochrome
Director David Fincher, cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt and costume designer Trish Summerville detail the approach to shooting Mank in black and white.
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