Minari
The National Board of Review (NBR) has named Da 5 Bloods the Best Film of 2020. Furthermore, based on his work on the Netflix feature, Spike Lee earned Best Director distinction. Da 5 Bloods’ cast was additionally honored as Best Ensemble.
Riz Ahmed and Carey Mulligan...
Film Independent unveiled nominations for the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Up for Best Feature are First Cow, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Minari, Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Nomadland. Best feature director nominees are Lee Isaac Chung for Minari, emerald...
The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the recipients of AFI Awards 2020.
Celebrating film and television arts’ collaborative nature, AFI Awards is the only national program that honors creative teams as a whole, recognizing those in front of and behind the camera. AFI Awards...
Chloé Zhao is among this year’s leading Oscar contenders as writer-director of Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures). Last month she earned Best Director honors from both the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics associations. In 2020, Nomadland also became the first film ever to...
This is the time of year when Hollywood's awards-season-industrial complex usually shifts into high gear. It's a frothy, festive run of the year's final premieres and screenings — all part of a carefully orchestrated dance to court tastemakers and, ultimately, academy voters.
The movies...
Minari and Boys State won Grand Jury Prizes at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic and U.S. Documentary competitions, respectively.
Minari is a decidedly different take on the American Dream, centered on a Korean-American lad whose life gets...
After the premiere of "Minari" at the Sundance Film Festival, while many in the audience were still drying their eyes, director Lee Isaac Chung quoted the author Willa Cather to explain how he had come to write a film based on his childhood, when his Korean family moved to rural Arkansas. ...