With its Academy Award nominations Monday morning, director Bong Joon Ho's genre-scrambling thriller, 'Parasite,' sets a historical precedent.
After scoring Golden Globe, SAG and critics nominations for ‘Hustlers,’ J. Lo gets no love from the 2020 Oscar nominations.
As positive word-of-mouth around “Parasite” gathered steam in the fall at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals, many wondered if it could follow the path of last year’s Alfonso Cuarón-directed “Roma” andto score a best picture nomination, a feat that fewer than a dozen international films have ever pulled off in the academy’s 92-year history.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times at Telluride in September, Bong said he felt the film’s depiction of thehad the potential to resonate with audiences everywhere, even if he couldn’t then imagine how big the #BongHive would eventually grow. “Of course, on the surface level, all of the details, the mannerisms, the people and the visual elements are all very Korean,” Bong said. “But the topic of the gap between rich and poor lends itself to being so universal. I think every country has their own structures and conflicts regarding class. But when you really delve deep into the cave of capitalism and explore the sort of infinite darkness of it, you find a similar sort of mechanism flows throughout.
Whether “Parasite” can go on to win best picture — something no foreign-language film has ever done — remains to be seen. But accepting the Golden Globe last week for best foreign-language film, Bong said the ultimate victory would be“Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films,” he said. “I think we use just one language — the cinema.
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