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Mar 13, 2022 · After winning a slew of precursor awards, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” swept the 2023 Oscars with seven trophies, becoming the most-awarded best picture winner since 2008’s...
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Moments after “Parasite” won the Oscar® for Best Picture during the live ABC Telecast of The 92nd Oscars®
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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 9, 2020 · Oscar Winners 2020: Full List of the 92nd Academy Awards Winners and Nominees Parasite makes history as the first foreign language film to win Best Picture, and also picks up Best...
Aug 26, 2024 · Gladiator, Rocky, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King are all among the most rewatchable movies that won the Oscar for Best Picture.
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4 days ago · Best Picture Nominees 2020, Ranked by Tomatometer. From comic-book movies to international arthouse black comedies to a movie without any letters in its title, the 2020 Oscars Best Picture...
Mar 24, 2022 · "Oppenheimer" is the latest movie to win best picture at the Oscars. Here's where it ranks among all 96 films to win the Academy Awards' top prize.
