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.
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.
In perhaps one of the more improbable Oscar campaigns in history, Youn Yuh-jung won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her critically acclaimed performance in “Minari.” Yuh-jung became just the second Asian woman to win an Oscar in the 93-year history of the awards. A landmark and sobering moment for the film industry.
The past year has been a strange one given how the pandemic had brought everything to a standstill. The unbelievable situation left us dealing with some difficult times as a global community.
Korean film Minari was recently released and it’s all everyone is talking about. Starring Steven Yeun, Youn Yuh-jung, Alan S.
Composer Emile Mosseri might be humble. And judging from our podcast conversation, he might have low expectations.
Another award show has come to an end! As the race for the Oscars later this month gets closer, The Screen Actors Guild Awards which are a precursor were held today. The SAG Awards which honours best onscreen performances, in TV and film, saw a great mix of diversity and representation this year.
And then there were eight. The Best Picture nominees have been widdled down to a chosen few and from a layman’s perspective, it might appear that the race to take Oscar’s most prestigious prize is surprisingly wide open.
Two months later than usual, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 93rd Oscars. The honorees were revealed by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas in a virtual broadcast which had actually become the norm for The Academy even before the pandemic began a little over a year ago.
The Producers Guild of America announced the pandemic delayed nominees for the 2021 PGA Awards and the “surprises” in the film category were not that surprising. Best Picture frontrunners “Nomadland,” “Minari” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” all made the cut, along with other familiar titles.
Without a doubt, “Minari” is one of the best films of the past year. The Lee Isaac Chung film has been earning rave reviews for weeks and has been picking up a steady stream of awards recently (including some Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards over the past week and a half).
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.
As Academy members drive through Los Angeles under an onslaught of FYC banners they are only days away from voting on the nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards. And while the Golden Globes delivered the lowest-rated telecast in 13 years, they did provide something of a public relations boost to a number of contenders.
Youn Yuh-jung is a pro. She’s been acting in film and television for over 50 years.
There are now less than three weeks left until voting for the 93rd Academy Awards is completed. And as the date grows closer, more members and consultants are expressing their belief there will be fewer Best Picture nominees than “normal.” Granted, we’ve heard this scuttlebutt before only to see the membership magically work the math to still land at least eight nominees.
Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” follows a family of Korean-American immigrants who try to reboot their lives on a farm in 1980s Arkansas. The semi-autobiographical drama finds Steven Yeun essentially playing Chung’s father.
Who said there wouldn’t be any awards before the end of 2020? There are critics groups handing out (virtual) trophies in the weeks ahead and instead of New York or Los Angeles going first, we begin with their peers in Boston. And in what may be a familiar refrain, The Boston Society of Film Critics capped off their annual year-end winners by selecting “Nomadland” as Best Film.
We’re living in the middle of a pandemic, nearly every theatrical release has vacated the 2020 hellscape, but somehow, as the year comes to a close, we’re offered, an overwhelming number of films worth exploring (isn’t film over?). Some have been celebrated since January of this year at Sundance, while others made their festival arrivals later but stunned nonetheless.
Is awards season actually happening? Skeptics may still think it’s pointless due to a theatrical distribution system ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, but things are moving forward. And, a small bit of normalcy returned as IFP announced the 2020 Gotham Awards nominations this morning LISTEN: John Magaro never ate an oily cake making “First Cow” [Podcast] “First Cow” led all films with three nominations including Best Feature, Best Actor (John Magaro) and Best Screenplay.
It’s a sign of the times that the incredibly prolific Clint Eastwood will not release a film that qualifies for the current 2021 Oscar season. His spirit, however, is present in Ron Howard’s disappointing “Hillbilly Elegy,” which pulled the curtain back on reviews and reactions today.
A funny thing happened on the way to a COVID-delayed Oscar qualification deadline. Real Best Picture contenders showed up.
The first thing you should realize about the 2021 Best Picture race is thanks to a fluctuating domestic theatrical distribution due to the coronavirus pandemic this list of contenders will likely change over the next few months. Don’t be surprised, however, if there are actually some major additions to the mix.
It’s really easy to forget, given it happened roughly 3 years ago —though I do mean in 2020 years— but earlier this year, before the second age of dark times, Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” was the big winner at the Sundance Film Festival.
Even with the Telluride Film Festival canceled outside of one special LA Screening and both the Venice and Toronto operating a significantly reduced capacity, it’s still shocking how few Oscar contenders are in play as the New York Film Festival comes into view. At this time last year, “Jojo Rabbit,” “Hustlers,” “Knives Out,” “Ford v.
I’ve likely written too many stories over the past few months using a creative motif that references our current state of affairs to that of the darkest timeline or an alternate world where the sun is shining and popcorn is still popping. But, to be honest, it’s the starkest means to demonstrate how far we are into uncharted waters.
It took four movies before Lee Isaac Chung was ready to tell the kind of story first-timers so often rush to share straight out of the gate. Not a coming-of-age movie so much as a deeply personal and lovingly poetic rendering of his Korean American childhood — specifically, how it felt for his immigrant family to adjust to life in small-town Arkansas — “Minari” benefits from the maturity and perspective Chung brings to the project.
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