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th Century Women” to Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari,” from John Boorman’s “Hope and Glory” to Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma.” Writer-director-actor Kenneth Branagh has now tried his hand at the genre, and to say that “Belfast” brings out the best in him would be an understatement.Visually stunning, emotionally wrenching and gloriously human, “Belfast” takes one short period from Branagh’s life and finds in it a coming-of-age story, a portrait of a city fracturing in an instant and a profoundly moving lament

It has been a long road developing the live-action American remake of the Japanese animated blockbuster, “Your Name.” After years of toiling away in development hell with folks like Erik Heisserer taking shots at the script, it appeared “Your Name” was being fast-tracked with “Minari” filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung recently named as the filmmaker. However, it appears Paramount is going back to the drawing board once again.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Team Minari is super excited and rightfully so. They have 6 nominations at the Oscars tonight - Best Picture, Best Director (Lee Isaac Chung), Steven Yeun (Best Actor), Best Supporting Actress (Yuh-Jung Youn), Writing (Best Original Screenplay), and Music (Original Score).The team’s Steven Yeun, Youn Yuh Jung, Christina Oh, Alan Kim, and Han Yeri are seen here walking the red carpet.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterRaise a glass of Mountain Dew to Yuh-Jung Youn.The celebrated Korean actress won an Oscar on Sunday night for her supporting role in “Minari,” Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical drama about a family that relocates to rural Arkansas in the 1980s to start a farm.

Minari, written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung has made its way into the Oscar 2021 nominations and the team could not be more excited.

on Sunday, making her the first Korean and second female Asian acting winner in the history of the Academy Awards.“Lee Isaac Chung, without him I wouldn’t be here tonight.

Minari star, who turned nine on Saturday (24 April), arrived on the Los Angeles red carpet – and was clearly very excited to be there with the film’s producer, Christina Oh. Shortly before the event kicked off, a video of the actor dancing in his suit did the rounds on Twitter.

Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt and Renée Zellweger, will present the awards, and speeches are encouraged – though nominees have been asked to "read the room" when accepting awards.

ChloéZhao won best director for Nomadland at the 36th annual Independent Spirit Awards on Thursday. Accepting the award, Zhao said she was "humbled" to be in the company of her fellow nominees —Lee Isaac Chung (Minari), Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman),Eliza Hittman (Never Rarely Sometimes Always), and Kelly Reichardt (First Cow).

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards are underway in a virtual ceremony, celebrating the best in indie filmmaking — and, for the first time, television.Continuing her roll in the best supporting actress category was Yuh-Jung Youn of “Minari.” In the first speech of the evening, the actor credited the very independent spirit of the Lee Isaac Chung production — specifically its lean budget and tight schedule.“This is amazing and i’m very grateful.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentFor the first time, there are two Asian Americans in Oscar’s director race: Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”) and Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”). That’s notable, but it’s even more extraordinary considering only four Asians were ever nominated as director before this.The four predecessors were spread over the decades: Hiroshi Teshigahara (“Woman in the Dunes,” 1965); Akira Kurosawa (“Ran,” 1985; he also won a special Oscar in 1989); M.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Minari” is filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical tale of a Korean American family starting a new life in 1980s Arkansas.

Academy Awards.

BAFTAs 2021 tonight (April 11), becoming only the second woman to walk away with the prize for Best Director.Zhao was nominated for her work helming Nomadland and was shortlisted in the category alongside Promising Young Woman’s Emerald Fennell, Babyteeth’s Shannon Murphy, Another Round’s Thomas Vinterberg, Minari’s Lee Isaac Chung, Rocks’ Sarah Gavron and Quo Vadis, Aida?’s Jasmila Žbanić.This year saw the most women nominated for Best Director in the awards show’s history with four female

*WINNER.FEATURE FILM Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari” Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman” David Fincher, “Mank” Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR Radha Blank, “The Forty-Year-Old Version” Fernando Frías de la Parra, “I’m No Longer Here” Regina King, “One Night in Miami” Darius Marder, “Sound of Metal” Florian Zeller, “The Father”DOCUMENTARY Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw, “The Truffle Hunters” Pippa Erhlich & James Reed, “My Octopus

EXCLUSIVE: Minari actress and Independent Spirit Award nominee Yeri Han has signed with Echo Lake Entertainment for U.S. representation.

Parasite took the top prize at Cannes film festival and later swept the Oscars, the director's speech at the Golden Globes telling viewers: "Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films. "Whether or not Lee Isaac Chung's Minari achieves the same feat at the Oscars next month, Korean cinema is finally getting its due, and there's never been a better time than now to get to know the best of the genre.

Deadline has learned that longtime CAA lit agent Jay Baker parted with the agency abruptly today. CAA was not commenting.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKorean American drama film “Minari” can’t stop winning awards. Similarly, it continues to reign on top of the Korean box office.The Lee Isaac Chung-directed film earned $1.09 million between Friday and Monday to top the box office in South Korea, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC).The figure is little changed from the previous weekend.

entertainment outlet tweeted a headline meant to celebrate the fact that this year’s Oscars nominations feature more actors of Asian descent than ever before in the event’s 92-year history, including Steven Yeun and Youn Yuh-jung for “Minari,” Riz Ahmed for “The Sound of Metal,” and director Chloe Zhao for “Nomadland.” Screenwriter Lee Isaac Chung and producer Christina Oh have also been nominated for their work in “Minari.”“Diverse Field Sees Asian Actors Shatter a Bamboo Ceiling,” the original

“Honestly, my head has not caught up to it,” Minari director/writer Lee Isaac Chung told Deadline in regards to the six Oscar nominations his American family drama received on Monday morning. “My heart is full but my head can’t wrap around what happened this morning.”

nominated for the Oscars Best Director category in the same year.Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell earned nods for their films “Nomadland” and “Promising Young Woman,” respectively.

Kate Aurthur editorDuring a historic year for diversity in the acting categories at the Oscars, the Academy has also made history by nominating two women in the directing category for the first time ever: Chloé Zhao for “Nomadland” and Emerald Fennell for “Promising Young Woman.”Zhao and Fennell will compete against David Fincher (“Mank”), Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”) and surprise nominee Thomas Vinterberg (“Another Round”).

2021 Oscars nominations were announced on Monday, with 's Chloe Zhao and 's Emerald Fennell landing nominations for Best Director — the first time in Oscars history that more than one woman has been nominated in the category.The trio became just the sixth and seventh women ever to be recognized in the category, alongside David Fincher for, Lee Isaac Chung for and Thomas Vinterberg for Zhao has also made history ahead of this year's ceremony, as the first Asian woman ever to be nominated for Best

2021 Oscars nominations were announced on Monday, with 's Chloe Zhao and 'sEmerald Fennelllanding nominations for Best Director — the first time in Oscars history that more than one woman has been nominated in the category.The trio became just the sixth and seventhwomen ever to be recognized in the category, alongside David Fincher for , Lee Isaac Chung for  and Thomas Vinterberg for Zhao has also made history ahead of this year's ceremony, as the first Asian woman ever to be nominated for Best

Oscars website or on its Twitter or Facebook page.Also Read: Oscars 2021: We Predict the Nominations in All 23 Categories (Photos)Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” which has won the top prize at the Golden Globes as well as the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, is expected to be a heavy contender for Best Picture and several other major categories.

Annnd … action! The Directors Guild of America is out with the nominations for its 73rd annual DGA Awards for theatrical feature film and first-time feature. The guild, which unveiled its TV, commercials and documentary nominees on Monday, will announce this year’s winners during an April 10 virtual event.

The 2021 shortlist for the BAFTA best director award features the highest number of female filmmakers —by some margin — in the British Academy's 74-year history. Just two would have been enough to take the record, but on Tuesday four were nominated out of a total of six nominees, with Shannon Murphy (Babyteeth), Chloe Zhao (Nomadland), Jasmine Zbanic (Quo Vadis, Aida?) and Sarah Gavron (Rocks) shortlisted, alongside Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) and Lee Isaac Chung (Minari).

NEW YORK -- After growing cobwebs for nearly a year, movie theaters in New York City reopen Friday, returning film titles to Manhattan marquees that had for the last 12 months instead read messages like “Wear a mask” and “We’ll be back soon.”Shortly after noon at the Angelika Film Center on Houston Street, Holly Stillman was already feeling emotional coming out of the first New York showing of Lee Isaac Chung’s tender family drama “Minari.” “My mask is drenched,” she said.But she was equally

Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari is an American film that tells the story of a Korean American family as they uproot from their more metropolitan life in California to a rural one in a small Arkansas town in search of the American dream. In case you didn’t catch on, this is a very American film.

As with most pieces of art, films are often a collection of life experiences. A writer or filmmaker often doesn’t display their true creative potential until tackling the moments that shaped their lives.

Clayton Davis Sacha Baron Cohen, Lee Isaac Chung, Chloé Zhao and many others virtually won Golden Globes on a night filled with technical hiccups and awkward Zoom moments. One of the notable things missing were the moments where a person’s name is called and they make the long walk to the stage and accept their statuettes (who can forget Jacqueline Bissett’s long journey which was parodied on “Saturday Night Live” by Vanessa Bayer).

A post shared by Sabrina Bedrani (@sabrinabmakeup)Though a largely virtual affair, this year’s Golden Globes ceremony was a feast of stellar fashion and beauty moments, as stars pulled out all the stops to celebrate, often alone, from their homes. One of the most captivating beauty looks came courtesy of Gal Gadot, who attended in person to present the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Picture, which went to Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari.

Minari's win in the foreign language film category brought a gigantic cuddle from director Lee Isaac Chung's daughter, whose fluffy shrug and shouts of "I prayed! I prayed! I prayed!" made her the evening's standout. Minari wins Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language at the #GoldenGlobes! pic.

For the second year in a row, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has given its Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film to a movie (predominantly) in Korean. However, the twist this time around is that 2021 winner Minari is a wholly U.S. production (as opposed to last year’s laureate Parasite).