Within the years earlier than Fb turned little greater than a lightning rod for criticism, the social media platform and its cofounder Mark Zuckerberg have been the topic of the 2010 movie The Social Community.
Jesse Eisenberg starred as Zuckerberg within the film, which was based mostly on The Unintended Billionaires, a 2009 e book by Ben Mezrich. The mission adopted Zuckerberg as he created Fb and weathered lawsuits surrounding the enterprise.
The Social Community gained Finest Tailored Screenplay, Finest Authentic Rating and Finest Movie Modifying on the 2011 Academy Awards. The movie’s eight Oscar nominations included Finest Image and Finest Actor for Eisenberg. The 2011 Golden Globe Awards doled out trophies for Finest Movement Image — Drama, Finest Director, Finest Screenplay and Finest Authentic Rating too.
Regardless of crucial acclaim, the film obtained backlash from the businessman who impressed it. Zuckerberg claimed that some features of the movie have been fabricated and revealed that he solely met Eisenberg as soon as whereas on Saturday Evening Dwell.
“So you may think about that a number of the stuff they in all probability needed to embellish and make up,” he stated. “In the event that they have been actually making a film, it could have been of me, sitting at a pc coding for 2 hours straight, which in all probability would have simply not been that good of a film and these guys, I believe, need to win awards and promote tickets.”
Scroll right down to see the place the forged of The Social Community ended up after the movie.