Over the last few years I have noticed the same thing when it comes to these awards. Nominees for Directors and Best Pictures always go hand in hand. More often then not if you win best Director that film wins best picture. Superhero, actions films, and war pictures get nominations for sound mixing and editing, and they get visual effects, and they also get Cinematography. Disney is always nominated (and 9 times out of 10 wins) Best Animation film. They are also nominated for best from that film that year. There is always a period piece that is nominated for Best Costume. And, as always, unless you are someone who lives at the movies you haven't heard of most of the Best Picture nominations because they are not the big draw ins as some other movies are.
2020 was no difference. Every movie that had a Director nominated was also in the Best Picture category. The same movie won both of those awards. Superhero, Action, and War movies where all represented in The Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Visual Effects, and Cinematography (with 1917 taking a nomination in all 4 categories). Disney won for Best Animation with Toy Story 4. Which is odd since Frozen II came out it was not even nominated. However, they did not take home Best Original Song which was interesting seeing that both Frozen II and Toy Story 4 were in the category and neither of them won. Little Woman won for Best Costume. Then 4 out of 9 Nominations for Best Picture were films that most casual viewers of movies have never heard of.
What was no predictable about these Awards this year is the shock of the biggest award of the night. The movie that took the top prize of Best Picture was also nominated for 5 other categories. it won 3 of those other including being the first time winner of the new renamed International Film (formally known as Foreign Language Film): Parasite.
Not going to lie.... I was shocked! This is not this first time that an International film has been nominated for Best Picture. It's the first time in the History of the Academy Awards that it's won! I think that most of us were shocked at that. There were so many great films that came out in 2019 that Parasite was really under the radar of most the general movie going public.
I was nervous to watch it. Manly because whoever spliced together the movie clips on TV did in a way that it made it look like it was a horror film. It was not at all that. It's was a surprisingly deep and well thought out movie. It dealt with class, wealth, entitlement, secrecy, lust, love, murder, mystery I mean the list could really go on and on.
It's really had to tall that plot of the movie without giving the whole film away, but here is a VERY over simplified plot. A lower class family is trying to make ends meet when opportunity strikes. A chance to work for a well off upper class family becomes available by way of a tutoring position. However, the whole family is soon working in the same household through a lot of manipulation and trickery. However, they are soon to find that secrets can only be kept so long.
Like I said if you have seen the movie you will know that this doesn't help. Also, by reading that there is love, lust, and murder as well you think that you can tell what is going to happen without watching the film. That is not the truth at all. You don't not ever begin to guess what is going to happen by just reading this.
It's been several days since I have watched it and I have told some people that I may never watch this movie again because it wasn't my cup of tea. However, the more time that has passed that more I want to watch it again. It's brilliantly written, and a marvel to watch. The plot sticks to you and comes to your mind when you least expect it. This will go down as one of the most memorable movies that I have ever seen.
I am just as shocked that I am saying that as you might be reading that.
No comments:
Post a Comment