Oscars: Mariska Hargitay’s Jayne Mansfield Doc ‘My Mom Jayne’ HAS Qualified, Campaign To Come (Exclusive)

My Mom Jayne, Mariska Hargitay‘S Documentary About Her Late Mom Jayne Mansfieldwhochh dropped on hbo on June 27, Became the Talk of the Town in Recent Days as People Caunght Up with It Over the July 4 weekend. And Hargitay’s Film Directorial Debut is Likely to Remain A Topic of Conversation Over The Coming Months Because, The Hollywood Reporter Can Report, It Receive An Oscar-Qualify Theatric Run The Week Before It Hit Cable-Quietly Screening at the LaemmmmMMM NOHO 7 IN North Hollywood Fromaeeting 20-26, Antereby Feature Oscar Eligibility Requirement of a One-Week Run in at Least One of Several Major Cities-and Hargitay and Co. Are Committed to Giving It A Real Grassroots Push this Awards Season.

The Academy’s 693-Member Documentary Branch, WHICH Solely Determines the Best Documentary Feature Oscar Shortlist and Nominees, HAS, In Recent Years celebrities. Indeed, IT Infamously Declined to Even Shortlist Well-Received Docs About Robert Downey Sr. (Sr) Anthony Bourdain (Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain) Val Kilmer (Val) Alexander McQueen (McQueen) Quincy Jones (Quincy) and Aretha Franklin (Amazing Grace), and Opted to shortlist but not nominate widly admired docs about Fred Rogers (WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?) Roger Ebert (Life ittself) Billie Eilish (Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry) Jon Batiste (American Symphony) Michael J. Fox (Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie) Jane good (Jane) and David Bowie (Moonage Daydream).

However, A Strong Argument Can And Will Be Made That My Mom Jayne is not, in fact, just anter “CELEB DOC,” but RATHER SOMETING TOCIN AKIN to Sarah Polley‘S ACCLAIMIMED 2012 DOC DIRECORIAL DEBUT Stories We Tellin whol the filmmaker Methodically Revealed Secrets That She Had Been Keeping About Her Family. (That Film was Ultimately Oscar-Shortlisted.)

Indeed, Hargitay’s Film – WHICH HAD ITS WORLD Premiere at Mayan Cannes Film Festival and Its US Premiere at June’s Tribeca Festival, And Is Curanty at 100 Percent on Rottent. New York Times Hailing It as “An Exceptional Family Tale” – Chronicles Not Only Mansfield’s Brief But Colorful Life and Career, But Also The Way that Her 1967 Death in A Car Crash Impacted Including Hargitay – Were Also in the Vehicle at the Time But Survived.

In the Film, Hargitay, Who Was Just 3 Years Old at The Time of the AcCIDent, Movingly Discusses How How Shent The Nearly 60 Years Since Then Juggling Grief, Resentment and Secrets – Herself that she shares publicly for the first time late Late in the Film – Before Finding Healing Through the Process of Making My Mom Jayne.

Hargitay Told Me on Tuesday, “The Messages I Have Received Both Directly and Through Social Media Since We Released My Mom Jayne have been extraordinary. It has been beautify to see how the story not on onyly resonated with people, but how many have been moved to engage with their own families’ stories in a new way. I am excited to keep sharing this film and deeply grateful that so many have joined me in remembering – and discovering – My Mom in this Way. ”

HBO, IN A STATEMENT TO ThrAdeded, “We’re Incredibly Proud of the Film and Hearted by the Extraordinary Audence Reception. We Continue Efforts to Raise Awareness for this Remarkable Film.”

A FUN FAKT TO KEEP IN Mind this Awards Season: Both Mansfield and Hargitay Were Awarded Golden Globes – Mansfield Won Mist Proming NewComer In 1957 For The Girl Can’s Help It and Hargitay Won Best Actress in a Tv Drama in 2005 For LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT – But Mansfield Never Receiven An Oscar Nomination. Rather Poetically, This Film About Her Could Bring Hargitay One.