[Cinementary] 'Academy Review' Apple voted for women, minorities, and technology

  The world's top three film festivals are the Cannes, Venice and Berlin International Film Festivals.

The most famous and popular film awards in the world, the Academy Awards, as director Bong Joon-ho said, is nothing more than a local film festival in the United States.

If you look at it, it's like the American version of the Great Bell Award.

However, because the influence of the American film industry and capital on the world is so great and there are so many stars from all over the world, the world is paying attention to the award, which is decided by the votes of the members of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

 I am not going to talk about actress Yoon Yeo-jeong's wonderful awards.

You must be tired of watching and listening to it already.

Instead, I would like to point out the big flow of the 94th Academy.

This year, the Academy was held face-to-face again at the Dolby Theater (formerly Kodak Theater) in Los Angeles, as before Corona. Beyonce sang the theme song to "King Richards" on the tennis court as well.

, and the moving story of a streaming deaf family, is a surprise star at the 94th Academy Awards.

Exceeded expectations and took the Best Picture.

She also won three awards for each color and supporting actor.

“Coda” is the original work of Apple TV+, Apple's streaming service.

This also broke the academy's stronghold in streaming services.

Venice and Berlin have already opened their doors, and Cannes is now the only remaining of the three major film festivals.

Netflix's "Power of Dogs", which was nominated for 12 nominations and was expected to become the king of the Academy, won only one Best Director award when it was opened.

With this, Netflix is ​​challenging for the Academy Award for Best Picture for the fourth year in a row, following “Roma” (directed by Alfonso Cuaron) in 2019, “The Irishman” (directed by Martin Scorsese) in 2020, and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (directed by Aaron Sorkin) in 2021. But he drank torment.

“The Power of Dogs” is an excellent film in each category, but that might have been a weakness.

It's not an easy read compared to other nominations for Best Picture.  

But it is said that cinema is the director's art.

Netflix relieved the sore throat when Jane Campion, director of “The Power of Dogs,” won the Best Director award.

In addition, it showed its potential by submitting nominations in 14 out of 23 categories.

In the end, the streaming service took the Best Picture and Best Director awards. 

The veteran Jane Campion, who made a comeback after 12 years with “The Power of Dogs,” won the Oscar for the first time in 28 years after winning the Best Original Screenplay award for “Piano” in 1994.

It is not easy to create masterpieces without losing her talent for nearly 30 years.

With this award, Jane Campion becomes the third female director to win the Academy Award for Best Director.

She also won a female Oscar for Best Director for the second year in a row, following Chloe Zhao last year.

Sean Hader, director of “Coda” for Best Picture, is also a female director. 

At this awards ceremony, two women gave the opening remarks and three female hosts were moderators.

The main character for Best Picture, Best Director, and Screenplay is a woman, and the Best Theme Song went to “007 No Time to Die,” created by female pop artist Billie Eilish.

Ariana de Voss for "West Side Story", which also won Best Supporting Actress, has revealed that she's a Latino woman and that she's queer.

Troy Coacher, who won Best Supporting Actor, became the first deaf man to win an Oscar.

The academy, which has been criticized for being mainly white, middle-aged men, has opened its doors to social minorities.

Another protagonist of the 94th Academy was '007'.

The year was the 60th year of James Bond 007, which started in 1962 with “The Number 007”.

The Academy paid homage to the 007 series by showing them one-by-one compilations of the previous 007 series.

Judi Dench, who played the role of M in 007, was also watched in Danha, and I wonder how he felt.

One of the funniest jokes personally at the Academy Awards ceremony was against Judi Dench. The hosts joked one by one as they walked around the actors under the stage, handed Javier Bardem something, saying NFT, and approached Judi Dench. It was a scene where Kim Kardashian wittily advised, “work harder”.

Hearing these words, 87-year-old Judi Dench this year was also upset, but her implants caught on her camera broke her heart.

If you watch the final scene of “Belfast,” which was also nominated for Best Picture and won Best Screenplay this time, you will be impressed by the power of an actress named Judi Dench, her face that only an old man can show.

It is currently being released in Korea.

Additionally, at the 94th Academy Awards, Frances de Coppola, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro were staged to commemorate the 50th anniversary of “The Godfather,” and John Travolta and Uma Thurman, who appeared on stage to commemorate the 28th anniversary of “Pulp Fiction.” The scene, the dance of rubbing the soles of the feet on the floor for a long time gave me pleasure.

(Oh, I'd love to see this movie again...) John Travolta shaved his head and didn't recognize him at first, and Uma Thurman, who seemed like a jerk, had aged nicely.

the media of technology. Movies are the media of technology.

The development of technology such as film and camera gave birth to the medium of film, and recently, various visual effects are actually realizing imaginary scenes on the screen that seem impossible for human visual pleasure.

In Korea, the IMAX aspect ratio “Dune,” which can only be seen properly in 'Yong-A-Mac', swept awards close to the technology, such as cinematography, editing, art, music, sound, and visual effects, and took 6 crowns. I did.

This is the most Oscars ever.

The film's music director, Hans Zimmer, showed creativity that did not age even in his mid-sixties with music-like sound and sound-like music.

“Dunne” has already finished its IMAX re-release at the request of movie fans in Korea, but I don’t know if it will be released again with this Oscar win.

Although not even nominated for the Best Actor nomination, Timothée Chalamet, the main character of the film, also came out to celebrate “The Dunes,” with her shirt off and a small jacket and necklace hanging out.

It's like a young star actor.

On the other hand, Kristen Stewart of “Spenser”, the youngest star nominee for Best Actress, briefly looked on camera for a moment and looked lonely like Diana in the movie.

The most competitive category at the Academy Awards is for Best Actress.

Jessica Chastain, Olivia Colman, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and Kristen Stewart face off.

The award went to Jessica Chastain for "The Eyes of Tommy Fay." 

unimaginable happenings with Drive My Car.

Will Smith, who played tennis as a father in “King Richards,” strode out onto the live stage and 'smashed' the presenter Chris Rock's ball (not a ball) by hand.

oh my god!

I thought it was directing.

But Will Smith, who returned to his seat and sat down, wrote 'F-word' one after another, so he realized, 'Oh, this is a real situation.

No matter how directing it is, would you have to spit F*** out in public?

It seems that Chris Rock's jokes about Will Smith's wife sounded insulting to Will Smith.

Still, Will Smith, as expected, won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the first time in his career.

Seeing him joking rather than joking, “Are you going to call me again next year?” as if worried about his acceptance speech, it seemed like he had lost his composure. 

Finally, it was also interesting to see how many awards the Japanese movie “Drive My Car” introduced in this column won, because it almost followed “Parasite” in winning awards.

It was also nominated for major categories such as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

However, it only won one International Feature Film Award.

The Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Screenplay for “Parasite” were almost a miracle!

Still, seeing director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who seemed quiet like a movie, excited and happy, I thought the academy was really great.

“Drive My Car” is an unprecedented three-hour art film, attracting 70,000 viewers in Korea, and can still be seen in theaters.