The Academy Awards, which are considered to be the highest honors of the American film industry, will be announced on the 27th and 28th of Japan time.
In Japanese movies, director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Drive My Car" has been nominated for four categories, including the Best Picture Award, and the whereabouts of the award will be noticed.
The 94th Academy Awards will be announced and the award ceremony will be held in Los Angeles from 5 pm local time on the 27th and 9 am on the 28th Japan time.
In Japanese films, director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Drive My Car" has been nominated in four categories, including the most important work award, the director's award, the international feature film award, and the adaptation award.
It will be the first time to win a work award, a director's award, and a dramatization award, and it will be the first international feature film award since "Departures" directed by Yojiro Takita in 2009.
"Drive My Car" is based on Haruki Murakami's short story, and a man who is a stage actor and director who lost his wife met a woman who is an exclusive driver and turned away from her eyes while spending time together. It is a story that faces the secret of my wife.
Director Hamaguchi and Hidetoshi Nishijima, who starred in the film, have already been in the field and are busy dealing with media companies.
"Drive My Car" won the Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival in France last year, and won the Non-English Film Award at the Golden Globe Awards in the United States, which is considered to be the prelude to the Academy Awards in January. , Has been highly acclaimed internationally, and the whereabouts of the award will be noticed.
U.S. film critic "Immersive in the world of work and widely accepted"
Joe Morgenstern, an American film critic and award-winning Puri Tour Award, said in an NHK interview that "Drive My Car" is highly regarded in the United States. , I'm tired of fierce action movies with car chase and explosions. Instead, I was looking for a work with content. In such a situation, "Drive My Car" has a slow flow and ahead. It's a movie that you can't read the development of, and you want the audience to concentrate. That's why the movie that allows the audience to immerse themselves in the world of the work has been widely accepted. "