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Jan 16, 2020 · Why didn’t the Oscars recognize that? By Justin Chang Film Critic. Jan. 16, 2020 5 AM PT. Spoiler alert: If you have not seen “Parasite,” be forewarned that this essay discusses key plot details...
Feb 9, 2020 · Cast & Crew Accepts Best Picture Oscar. Jane Fonda: And the Oscar goes to Parasite. Announcer: Parasite has six Academy award nominations, and is the first film not in the English language to win Best Picture, winning four Oscars tonight. Kwak Sin-ae: [speaking Korean 00:01:24]. Interpretor: I’m speechless.
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Things were very different for foreign language films at the start of Yang’s multi-decade career. When she arrived in Hollywood in the ’80s, Asian-language films, in particular, weren’t even considered a possibility for mainstream wide release. “They would be marketed in a different way. It was all about getting the Asian audience out, along with t...
While Lee was stringing together a run of multilingual epics, a new generation of Korean filmmakers was in the midst of its own golden age. Emboldened by the country’s expanding democratic rights and flush with cash from chaebols—large family-run conglomerates—a group of auteurs led by the trio Bong Joon-Ho, Kim Ji-woon and Park Chan-wook rose in t...
At the same time, American audiences were also seeing more faces of color on their screens thanks to the erosion of traditional gatekeepers in film and television. In 2015 and 2016, #OscarsSoWhite exploded on Twitter after two consecutive years of all-white acting nominees, leading the Academy to announce an initiative to double their number of fem...
In May, Parasite opened at Cannes to an eight-minute standing ovation, eventually winning the festival’s top prize. In October, the film opened in the U.S.—and thanks to rapturous reviews, word-of-mouth campaigns that included the efforts of Gold House—an Asian American organization that had formed in 2018 to boost Crazy Rich Asians at the box offi...
But Parasite’s best picture win does not guarantee lasting change. The Korean film industry has recently become stagnant—with admissionsplateauing since 2013—and top-heavy, with many blockbusters taking up an increasing amount of space at theaters. (Last year, a Korean Film Council study said that on any given day, 67.5% of all screenings would be ...
Feb 10, 2020 · As The Washington Post noted last week, while Parasite was up for six Oscar nominations in total, none of its actors received individual Academy nods, reflecting a history of...
Feb 10, 2020 · It didn't win. And so it's - I think "Parasite" is the 12th non-English language movie, I believe, to be nominated for best picture. And it finally won. And it's really staggering because up...
Feb 10, 2020 · “It’s a little strange, but it’s not a big deal,” Mr. Bong told an interviewer last year, when asked why no Korean film had ever been nominated for an Academy Award despite the country’s ...
Jan 13, 2020 · Everything you need to know about ‘Parasite’ and its Oscar nominations. It was clear from Times critic Justin Chang’s radiant enthusiasm coming out of Cannes in May: “Parasite” was ...
