The weather in Southern California is almost the same every day.

Thanks to that, yesterday is like today and today is like tomorrow.

But I remember the weather on the day of last year's Oscars.

It has rained all day since morning.

It was an unusual weather, but I was on the verge of anxiety all day because of the cable/internet situation here, which fluctuates despite small climate changes.

It was because I was afraid that I would miss out on the live academy of <Parasite>.



With the start of the awards ceremony, concerns about the strong TV emerged.

The screen was a mosaic with no recognizable shape, and even the sound was cut off.

I called the cable TV customer center right away.

But beyond the handset, the engineer uncle repeatedly said that it was not possible because of the weather today.

Urgently, we were Koreans, and when we protested that we should watch the Academy Awards because of <Parasite>, the uncle congratulated us by relaying the results of the awards.

We had to listen to live broadcasts on the phone and search for news on our cell phones.

The cable service was canceled the next day.




This year, from the pre-ceremony, we prepared everything by securing a live internet link. As Stephen Soderberg, director of <Container>(2011) and co-producer of this year's Academy Awards Ceremony, who is said to have predicted the Corona Era 10 years ago, the awards ceremony was'completely different from before'. Unlike previous years, when Hollywood talents gathered to show off their tax and only popular category awards were broadcast live, only candidates and related people in each category were invited. In addition, the attendees were in the spotlight, because they were on the stage without discrimination in major and non-major areas, while splendid shows and talks decreased. Nominations for makeup, hair, clothes, documentaries, short animations and short feature films, which were always difficult to see receiving awards on the stage, which was always pushed for major divisions, appeared on the screen, and the winners went on the stage to share their feelings and joy of the award. The stage was moved to Union Station, not a large theater where awards were always held, and candidates from overseas, not the United States, attended from their respective regions. The original appearance and form have changed a lot, but in terms of content, it seemed that this year was the closest to the essence of the film festival.



First of all, a conscious move to get rid of the'discrimination problem' surrounding race and gender that has been following the academy fiercely over the past few years has been noticeable. The show was held in line with the DJing of film director and musician DJ Quest Love, and actors of various races appeared as award winners. After many years of controversy over the white-centered nominations, filmmakers of various nationalities and racial backgrounds were nominated. In particular, <Nomadland>, which won the Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Actress Award, achieved the feat of being the Academy's first female director of color award (although, of course, the term "people of color based on white people should also be reconsidered"). It was unusual and encouraging that there were two women, not only Chloe Zhao, the winner of the Best Director Award, who was always one of the male directors, but also the Emerald Penal director of <Promising Young Woman>.



As an Asian immigrant audience, the award of Chinese director Chloe Zhao was also impressed, but the appearance of Korean filmmakers was a chore. At the beginning of the awards ceremony, the welcome appearance of last year's winner, director Bong Joon-ho, as well as interpreter Sharon Choi, who received attention whenever <Parasite> became a hot topic at overseas film festivals, proved the still topic of Korean films. In addition, the technical award, which was conducted with a witty comment by Stephen Yeon, who was nominated for the leading actor award for <Buttercup>, also brought a happy smile. Unlike the Golden Globe, which limited <Buttercup> to foreign language film awards according to the language ratio in the film, the Academy also liked that the Academy evenly raised <Buttercup> as the main prize nominee and treated the film according to the value of the film.




The progress of <Buttercup> and <Nomadland> is a positive side effect that the film industry has embraced in crisis due to the corona era. Typically, filmmakers plan and promote distribution according to the expected revenue of the film. The amount of information the public can get about a movie depends on the cost of the promotion. In short, movies with large promotional expenses are more likely to receive the attention of more audiences. This means that the audience's accessibility to the work varies depending on the capital invested in the film. However, the Corona era has greatly blurred the obvious boundaries between movies depending on the size of the investment capital. Corona shook the capital's platform that created a solid discriminatory barrier between movies. Thanks to this, the likelihood of small films making it easier to meet the audience has increased.



Yoon Yeo-jung, the second Asian woman and the first Korean to win the Academy Award for Supporting Actor, said in an interview that she had accepted the production cost of <2 billion won worth of <Buttercup> in the first place, and accepted it for 20 billion won. Having endured the poor filming scene of a low-budget movie, he expressed his affectionate grievance that "I don't shoot like this in Korea these days." The story of the Korean immigrant family's settlement in the middle of the United States, without extreme narratives or clichéd feelings, was able to advance not only to Sundance, the mecca of independent films, but also to the academy, which was mainly a feast of large films. The blurring of the boundaries' played a big part.



Currently, the United States is suffering not only from the corona, but also from the'Asian Hate Crime', which projected the'Black Lives Matter' movement triggered by the George Floyd incident, the backlash against it, and the hatred of the coronavirus as a racial prejudice against the Asian as a whole. Perhaps because of this awareness of problems, this year's Academy nominations were mainly works that were approached from the perspective of minorities such as the issue of the black human rights movement, the issue of Asian immigrants, women, and the issue of the disabled. This is the result of paying more attention not to films as a'dream factory' that unfolds imaginations that cannot be realized in reality, but to films that try to find a'dream' that makes this world a more beautiful place in which we live.



Many comments on the awards of this film festival were also calling for a new awareness of the world we live with. Tyler Perry, who won the Jean Herscholt philanthropy award awarded to filmmakers who played a prominent role in promoting human rights, is racial, gender, LGBTQ-lesbian, gay, and bisexual. ), transgender (transgender), a word after the acronym of queer (a person whose gender identity cannot be clearly distinguished), and various conflicts and alienation that exist and love as the only way to resolve them. The scene in which the deaf actor Marie Mattlin, who won the Youngest Actress Award for <Children of the Little Gods>(1986), presented in a sign language and translated into a phonetic language, reminded me of the familiar'normality' once again.




Above all, the best highlight for Korean audiences was the impression of the award from actor Yoon Yeo-jung.

The New York Times and other media also cited it as the best impression of the award, and it was a universal response beyond nationality.

He was nominated eight times for "How will you compete with Glenn Close", but expressed respect for the legendary actress who returned empty-handed this time.

To the rest of the actors, "We all played different roles in different films, but we can't compete with each other," he humbly congratulated, saying, "I'm just a little more fortunate today" and congratulated with humor.

This sensational impression of the award transformed the film festival into a real festival that recognizes and encourages each other's hard work, not a competition for awards.

Seeing her wonderful acting and the awards that revealed the deep inner feelings that made it possible, I thought that the present audience, who can enjoy her acting and wit at the same time, is really lucky.




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