What to watch out for when Oscar noms are announced Tuesday
2 years, 10 months ago

What to watch out for when Oscar noms are announced Tuesday

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Among the films expected to do well are Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic “Dune,” Kenneth Branagh's autobiographical coming-of-age tale “Belfast" and Jane Campion's gothic western “The Power of the Dog. Netflix which is still pursuing its first best-picture trophy, has three contenders in “The Power of the Dog,” Adam McKay's apocalyptic comedy “Don't Look Up” and Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical adaptation “Tick, Tick. Two years after Bong Joon Ho's Korean thriller “Parasite” won best picture, a group of acclaimed international films could vie in several top categories. Other films with strong support outside of the academy's best international film category including Pedro Almodovar's “Parallel Mothers”, Asghar Farhadi's “A Hero,” Joachim Trier's “The Worst Person in the World," Paolo Sorrentino's “The Hand of God” and Jonas Poher Rasmussen's animated “Flee.” In expanding and diversifying its membership in recent years, the academy has grown more international — and enlarged the sway of overseas voters.

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With this year's Oscar nominations, foreign-language films have gone mainstream
11 months, 2 weeks ago

With this year's Oscar nominations, foreign-language films have gone mainstream

BBC  

With this year's Oscar nominations, foreign-language films have gone mainstream Netflix Non-English language films Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest, Past Lives, and Society of Snow all received Oscar nominations – three of them for best picture. In the decades prior to this shift, non-English language films were nearly always relegated to the "best foreign language film" prize, …

Oscars 2022 nominees Dune, Spencer, and Lunana: Where to watch 94th Academy Awards nominated titles online
2 years, 9 months ago

Oscars 2022 nominees Dune, Spencer, and Lunana: Where to watch 94th Academy Awards nominated titles online

India TV News  

As the Oscar fever grips cinephiles, online streaming platform Amazon Prime Video today announced the addition of new films from across the world that have been nominated for the 94th Academy Awards. One of the biggest titles in 2021 Dune, which received 10 Oscar nominations at the 94th Academy Awards namely Best Picture, Cinematography, Film Editing, Music, Production Design, Sound, …

Three hosts. A fan favorite award. Here’s how the Oscars hope to boost ratings this year
2 years, 10 months ago

Three hosts. A fan favorite award. Here’s how the Oscars hope to boost ratings this year

LA Times  

This year’s box-office juggernaut “Spider-Man: No Way Home” failed to score a best picture nod but could be a front-runner for the Oscars’ new Twitter fan award. At a moment of deep existential anxiety for both the academy and the film industry as a whole, this year’s Oscars nominations announcement included the participation of fans outside of Hollywood — including …

Oscars 2021: Fewer stars, no audience and no Zoom appearances amid Covid-19 restrictions
3 years, 8 months ago

Oscars 2021: Fewer stars, no audience and no Zoom appearances amid Covid-19 restrictions

Daily Mail  

An Oscars unlike any before will get underway Sunday night with a telecast retooled for the pandemic. Covid-19 precautions: The Oscars are adapting to the coronavirus pandemic by having only 170 attendees at LA's Union Station this year, while Zoom appearances are banned; Union Station seen being prepared for the ceremony on Friday In contrast with the largely virtual Golden …

Oscars 2021: Netflix leads studios with 35 nominations in streaming’s big year
3 years, 9 months ago

Oscars 2021: Netflix leads studios with 35 nominations in streaming’s big year

LA Times  

Welcome to the Living Room Oscars. Netflix also earned six nominations for Aaron Sorkin’s historical drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” also up for best picture, and five for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” The late Chadwick Boseman was honored with a lead actor nomination for his role in “Ma Rainey,” and his costar Viola Davis earned a spot in …

‘Nomadland’ Is An Astonishing Movie And A Worthy Oscar Front-Runner
3 years, 10 months ago

‘Nomadland’ Is An Astonishing Movie And A Worthy Oscar Front-Runner

Huff Post  

Frances McDormand in "Nomadland," now streaming on Hulu and playing in select theaters. The Oscars, a buffet of overpriced politicking, almost never honor the year’s actual best film, making “Nomadland” an automatic outlier. Despite drawing inspiration from Jessica Bruder’s nonfiction book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century,” the film’s political heft is as gentle as its plot. She cast …

Parasite's Birthday Party Sequence Accurately Sums Up What 2020 Has Been Like
4 years ago

Parasite's Birthday Party Sequence Accurately Sums Up What 2020 Has Been Like

News 18  

2020 has been an eventful year to say the least. If we could summarize this up into a single instance, it’d perhaps be the birthday party scene from South Korean filmmaker, Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar winning movie, Parasite. If you’ve seen the movie Parasite, you’ll know that it’s an uphill climb up to a significant plot-twist turning point in the …

Oscars 2021 on April 25 will be in-person event, no virtual ceremony: Report
4 years, 1 month ago

Oscars 2021 on April 25 will be in-person event, no virtual ceremony: Report

India Today  

The 93rd Academy Awards, or the Oscars 2021 will take place on April 25, 2021 and it will be an in-person event, a Variety.com report says. An awards publicist told Variety, “The Academy has done a walkthrough of the Dolby recently to see all the multiple options.” INDIA’S ENTRY TO OSCARS 2021 This year, director Lijo Jose Pellissery’s Jallikattu is …

Oscar-Winning Movie 'Parasite' Rules Asian Film Awards Nominations
4 years, 3 months ago

Oscar-Winning Movie 'Parasite' Rules Asian Film Awards Nominations

ABP News  

'Parasite' -- Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-winning movie leads the race at this year's Asian Film Awards, by sweeping 10 nominations including best film, best director, and best screenplay. 'Parasite' created history as it became the first foreign-language film to win the Best Picture award at the Oscars. The film also bagged the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, …

Korean cinema starter kit
4 years, 10 months ago

Korean cinema starter kit

Live Mint  

On 9 February, Parasite won four Academy Awards, including Best Director for Bong Joon-ho and Best Picture. Lost in the excitement of a non-English film winning the top prize for the first time was a surprising statistic: Parasite was the first South Korean film to even be nominated for an Oscar. Yet the country’s cinema has, since the 1990s, been …

Mark Ruffalo is the front runner to headline HBO’s ‘Parasite’ TV series
4 years, 10 months ago

Mark Ruffalo is the front runner to headline HBO’s ‘Parasite’ TV series

The Hindu  

Hollywood star Mark Ruffalo has been tapped for a leading role in the new television spin-off of director Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning film Parasite. Ruffalo watched from the audience as the filmmaker pick up four trophies, including one for Best Picture, at the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday and now he’s in line to star in a TV series adaptation …

Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho won't get to keep all four of his awards for Parasite
4 years, 10 months ago

Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho won't get to keep all four of his awards for Parasite

Daily Mail  

Director Bong Joon-ho won't be able to keep all four Oscars that was awarded to his hit drama Parasite during the 92nd Academy Awards. Making history: Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho won't get to keep all four awards for Parasite, it was reported on Monday. as film's Best International Feature Film gong is awarded to South Korea Director Bong won the …

Making Oscar history, ‘Parasite’ wins best picture
4 years, 10 months ago

Making Oscar history, ‘Parasite’ wins best picture

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — In a milestone win that instantly expanded the Oscars’ horizons, Bong Joon Ho’s masterfully devious class satire “Parasite” became the first non-English language film to win best picture in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards. “Parasite” took Hollywood’s top prize on Sunday night, along with awards for best director, best international film and best screenplay. In …

Parasite has changed the face of the Oscars – but the fight for film industry diversity doesn't end here
4 years, 10 months ago

Parasite has changed the face of the Oscars – but the fight for film industry diversity doesn't end here

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As Justin Chang, a film writer …

South Korea’s ‘Parasite’ wins international feature Oscar
4 years, 10 months ago

South Korea’s ‘Parasite’ wins international feature Oscar

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — “Parasite,“ director Bong Joon Ho’s dark comedy about wealth inequality, won the Oscar for best international feature at Sunday’s Academy Awards, becoming the first South Korean film to capture an Oscar. “A foreign-language film winning this later won’t be much of an issue later on, hopefully.” Still, he said he was stunned to see the film sweep …

Oscars 2020: Despite absence from ceremony, Priyanka Chopra Jonas cheers for Parasite's historic win on Instagram
4 years, 10 months ago

Oscars 2020: Despite absence from ceremony, Priyanka Chopra Jonas cheers for Parasite's historic win on Instagram

Firstpost  

As the South Korean drama Parasite made history at the 92nd Academy Awards, actor Priyanka Chopra congratulated the team of the movie and said the craft of artists has the power to transcend borders. At the 92nd Academy Awards, Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win the Best Picture accolade. Parasite had gained six nominations this year at the …

‘Parasite’ director Bong Joon-ho quotes Martin Scorsese in acceptance speech at Oscars
4 years, 10 months ago

‘Parasite’ director Bong Joon-ho quotes Martin Scorsese in acceptance speech at Oscars

The Hindu  

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho is the toast of Hollywood now, after Parasite became the first foreign film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The 50-year-old beat several iconic directors such as fellow nominees Quentin Tarantino for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Sam Mendes for 1917, Todd Phillips for Joker and Martin Scorsese for The Irishman in …

Oscars 2020: From Eminem’s surprise performance to Joaquin Phoenix’s stirring speech; four highlights
4 years, 10 months ago

Oscars 2020: From Eminem’s surprise performance to Joaquin Phoenix’s stirring speech; four highlights

Hindustan Times  

The 92nd Academy Awards concluded with the historic best picture win for Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean social satire, Parasite, pulling off surprise win after surprise win for a total of four Oscars. Here are four major highlights from the ceremony: Elton John and Hildur Guðnadóttir are just one award away from joining the EGOT club Elton John is seen after …

Oscars 2020: 'Parasite' Creates History, Becomes First Foreign Language Film To Win Best Picture
4 years, 10 months ago

Oscars 2020: 'Parasite' Creates History, Becomes First Foreign Language Film To Win Best Picture

ABP News  

Language is a core expression of identity. #Parasite pic.twitter.com/rqFdQwX4t4 — Eugene Lee Yang February 10, 2020 : South Korean drama 'Parasite' created history as it became the first foreign-language film to win the Best Picture award at Oscars. Earlier in the ceremony, the film won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, and Best Director. 'Parasite' had …

Oscars 2020: South Korea’s ‘Parasite’ makes Oscar history with Best Picture
4 years, 10 months ago

Oscars 2020: South Korea’s ‘Parasite’ makes Oscar history with Best Picture

The Hindu  

Just days before the Oscars, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho had referred to the Oscars as “very local” awards. Or, perhaps, it was Mr. Bong’s other famous quote — “once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films” — that made the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences look …

‘Parasite’ Winning Best Picture Is A Huge Leap Forward For The Oscars
4 years, 10 months ago

‘Parasite’ Winning Best Picture Is A Huge Leap Forward For The Oscars

Huff Post  

Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: NEON + CJ Entertainment/Getty This is major. The film found box-office fortune as it expanded across North American theaters throughout fall and winter, and Bong Joon Ho solidified his reputation as a cunning director skilled at disguising nuanced political allegories as crowd-pleasing blockbusters, something he’d already done with “The Host,” “Snowpiercer” and “Okja.” During the months …

Oscars 2020: Parasite Wins Best International Feature Film
4 years, 10 months ago

Oscars 2020: Parasite Wins Best International Feature Film

ABP News  

Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' won the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. This year, the award name was changed to Best International Feature Film from Best Foreign Language Film. In the Best Foreign Language Film category, 'Corpus Christi', 'Honeyland' ', Les Miserables', 'Pain and Glory' and 'Parasite' were nominated. 'Parasite' has gained six nominations this year at the …

Oscars 2020 winners: The complete list of who won Best Picture, Best Actor, and more at the 92nd Academy Awards.
4 years, 10 months ago

Oscars 2020 winners: The complete list of who won Best Picture, Best Actor, and more at the 92nd Academy Awards.

Slate  

The 92nd Academy Awards finished off a largely predictable ceremony on Sunday night with one major surprise: Parasite beating out 1917 for Best Picture. Parasite is not only the first South Korean movie ever to win any kind of Oscar, it’s also the first Best Picture winner in a language other than English. The bleakly comedic thriller, which follows a …

Oscars 2020: Complete List Of Academy Award Winners
4 years, 10 months ago

Oscars 2020: Complete List Of Academy Award Winners

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Bong Joon Ho’s twisty home invasion thriller “Parasite” took home the Best Picture trophy at the 2020 Oscars, making history in multiple categories as the first South Korean film to win major prizes at the award show. “I feel like a very opportune moment in history is happening right now,” producer Kwak Sin-ae said on stage at …

Oscars 2020 Highlights: Audience Demands to Let Crew of Best Picture Winner Parasite Finish Their Speeches
4 years, 10 months ago

Oscars 2020 Highlights: Audience Demands to Let Crew of Best Picture Winner Parasite Finish Their Speeches

News 18  

Parasite won Best Picture Oscar at the 92nd Academy Awards and the audience encouraged the cast and crew to speak their heart out on stage. Sitting on the front row of the awards show, actors like Tom Hanks and Charlize Theron urged the cast and crew of the South Korean film to extend their speech beyond the stipulated time in …

Oscars 2020: Parasite director Bong Joon Ho cannot take eyes off his first Oscar trophy. Watch video
4 years, 10 months ago

Oscars 2020: Parasite director Bong Joon Ho cannot take eyes off his first Oscar trophy. Watch video

India Today  

A video of Bong Joon Ho admiring his Oscars trophy on the stage during the 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on February 10 is going viral as the internet is delighted with the moment. Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin-won bagged the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Parasite at the event. As the crowd cheered after the award …

Big wins for "Parasite" including Best Picture provide the thrills in a long, dull Oscars 2020
4 years, 10 months ago

Big wins for "Parasite" including Best Picture provide the thrills in a long, dull Oscars 2020

Salon  

"Parasite," a film about extreme socioeconomic disparity and class discrimination, won Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards. It's also obvious to anyone with working vision that the Academy charged Howell Taylor and Allain to do everything they could to make up for the fact that Academy voters selected an egregiously uninspired slate of nominees that were entirely white in …

How ‘Parasite’ made Oscars history as the first foreign-language best picture winner
4 years, 11 months ago

How ‘Parasite’ made Oscars history as the first foreign-language best picture winner

LA Times  

By the time Leonardo DiCaprio crashed the poolside “Parasite” party at the Sunset Tower Hotel on the weekend of the Golden Globes, the awards-season momentum for Bong Joon Ho’s acclaimed thriller had been building for months. “Parasite” premiered at Cannes in May, unanimously winning the festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or prize, the first in a series of firsts for its filmmaker …

‘Parasite’, the Oscars and one-inch barriers
4 years, 11 months ago

‘Parasite’, the Oscars and one-inch barriers

Live Mint  

Bong Joon-ho has been making films for 20 years. Bong has been living a charmed life since May, when Parasite won the Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Parasite has snapped up critics’ circle and guild awards across the country, the line “Jessica, only child, Illinois, Chicago” is a rare cinephile meme, it has won a Golden Globe …

‘Parasite’, the Oscars and one-inch barriers
4 years, 11 months ago

‘Parasite’, the Oscars and one-inch barriers

Live Mint  

Bong Joon-ho has been making films for 20 years. Bong has been living a charmed life since May, when Parasite won the Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Parasite has snapped up critics’ circle and guild awards across the country, the line “Jessica, only child, Illinois, Chicago” is a rare cinephile meme, it has won a Golden Globe …

Oscars 2020: Which men were nominated for Best Director, and which women were left out?
4 years, 11 months ago

Oscars 2020: Which men were nominated for Best Director, and which women were left out?

Firstpost  

Issa Rae summed up the Best Director race succinctly, perhaps in more ways than she realised, when she announced the nominees: “Congratulations to those men.” Regardless of the work at hand, the group that the Academy has chosen to nominate represents a gaze toward the past — with one key exception, Parasite — and it feels terribly fitting that a …

‘1917’ dominates our 2020 Oscar predictions, but ‘Parasite’ could surprise
4 years, 11 months ago

‘1917’ dominates our 2020 Oscar predictions, but ‘Parasite’ could surprise

LA Times  

Brad Pitt will make us laugh. BEST PICTURE “Ford v Ferrari” “The Irishman” “Jojo Rabbit” “Joker” “Little Women” “Marriage Story” “1917” “Once Upon a Time. in Hollywood” Adam Driver, “Marriage Story” Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker” Jonathan Pryce, “The Two Popes” Winner: Phoenix Now we’re entering the locks in the acting races. in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin …

Oscars 2020: Parasite, The Irishman, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, Marriage Story — how to watch all the Best Picture nominees – Firstpost
4 years, 11 months ago

Oscars 2020: Parasite, The Irishman, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, Marriage Story — how to watch all the Best Picture nominees – Firstpost

Firstpost  

While most of the Best Picture nominations at Oscars 2020 are currently running in theatres, some of them are available on streaming services. With various nominations across the awards circuit, critics are all praise for Gerwig’s Little Women, with many stating she has “modernised the book’s timeless story in unexpected ways.” How to watch it: Little Women is scheduled to …

The Oscars need ‘Parasite’ more than ‘Parasite’ needs the Oscars
4 years, 11 months ago

The Oscars need ‘Parasite’ more than ‘Parasite’ needs the Oscars

LA Times  

“Parasite” deserves to win best picture. It wasn’t just that “Parasite” might be deemed too dark and violent by an academy that only rarely sees the merits of a thriller as unnerving as “No Country for Old Men” or “The Silence of the Lambs.” It wasn’t just that a corrosively funny, morally unsettling domestic drama about a subterranean class war …

‘Parasite’ was one of the best-acted movies of 2019. Why didn’t the Oscars recognize that?
4 years, 11 months ago

‘Parasite’ was one of the best-acted movies of 2019. Why didn’t the Oscars recognize that?

LA Times  

Spoiler alert: If you have not seen “Parasite,” be forewarned that this essay discusses key plot details from the movie, including the ending. Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” made Oscar history on Monday morning by becoming the first Korean movie to score nominations not only for international feature but also for best picture, director and original screenplay. But amid these well-earned, …

Everything you need to know about ‘Parasite’ and its Oscar nominations
4 years, 11 months ago

Everything you need to know about ‘Parasite’ and its Oscar nominations

LA Times  

It was clear from Times critic Justin Chang’s radiant enthusiasm coming out of Cannes in May: “Parasite” was something special — a movie to be seen, and then to be watched as it took the awards circuit by storm. But for those those who’ve missed the “Parasite” train thus far, here’s a short course in why director Bong Joon Ho’s …

How Netflix’s dominance in the Golden Globe nominations signals a new era for cinema
5 years, 1 month ago

How Netflix’s dominance in the Golden Globe nominations signals a new era for cinema

LA Times  

The battle for the future of movies has ended, and streaming has won. Propelled by Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic “The Irishman,” the searing divorce drama “Marriage Story” and the Vatican-set “The Two Popes” — all three of which earned best picture nods in the drama category, along with the World War I drama “1917” and the gritty comic-book smash “Joker” …

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