Tag: Parasite

  • ‘1917’ Wins the PGA Award; Is the Oscar for Best Picture Next?

    ‘1917’ Wins the PGA Award; Is the Oscar for Best Picture Next?

    The Producers Guild Association awards were tonight, and Oscar prognosticators were tuned to what the guild would choose as Best Picture. Since the PGA and the Oscars have expanded the Best Picture category, there have only been two times when the PGA winner didn’t line up with the Oscars: La La Land (the Oscar went…

  • Oscars 2020: Best Production Design Predictions

    Oscars 2020: Best Production Design Predictions

    It’s a strong season for period production design Oscar contenders, with Sam Mendes’ bold, continuous-shot, Word War I thriller, “1917,” as the frontrunner. It required production designer Dennis Gassner and the art department to make the intricate sets in precise accordance with the choreography of Roger Deakins’ tour de force camera work.Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite”…

  • ‘Parasite’ and ‘Jojo Rabbit’ win Ace Eddie Awards

    ‘Parasite’ and ‘Jojo Rabbit’ win Ace Eddie Awards

    by Murtada ElfadlBong Joon Ho and Song Kang Ho celebrate their film’s winParasite (edited by Jinmo Yang) and Jojo Rabbit (edited by Tom Eagles) won Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) and Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy) respectively at the 70th Annual Ace Eddie Awards last night in La. This is a huge win for Parasite…

  • ‘Parasite,’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ & ‘Fleabag’ Top 2020 Ace Eddie Awards

    ‘Parasite,’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ & ‘Fleabag’ Top 2020 Ace Eddie Awards

    The 70th Annual Ace Eddie Awards were handed out in a ceremony on Jan. 17 in Beverly Hills, CA and on the film side, it may be a hint of what’s to come in the Best Picture Oscar race. “Parasite,” edited by Jinmo Yang, stunned by taking the top Drama Film editing honor over “The…

  • 2020 Ace Film Eddies: ‘Parasite’ and ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Grab Top Awards

    2020 Ace Film Eddies: ‘Parasite’ and ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Grab Top Awards

    Bong Joon Ho’s acclaimed South Korean class-divide thriller “Parasite” and Taika Waititi’s Nazi satire “Jojo Rabbit,” both Editing and Best Picture Oscar nominees, were the surprise feature winners for drama and comedy at the 70th Ace Eddie Awards Friday at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. “Toy Story 4” and “Apollo 11,” meanwhile, took the…

  • ‘Parasite,’ ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Win Ace Eddie Awards for Top Feature Films
  • New ‘Snowpiercer’ Trailer: TNT Drama Arrives May 31

    New ‘Snowpiercer’ Trailer: TNT Drama Arrives May 31

    The TV series “Snowpiercer,” based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel series and the film from Golden Globe Award winner Bong Joon Ho (“Parasite“), didn’t look like it was going to happen, at first. In development at TNT for over three years, the series faced numerous production issues and delays that arose from creative differences…

  • Oscars 2020: Best Original Screenplay Predictions

    Oscars 2020: Best Original Screenplay Predictions

    Quentin Tarantino has the upper hand in the Best Original Screenplay race. The groundswell started with the upbeat reception for Tarantino’s ninth feature opus “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” at Cannes, a Charles Manson-inflected 1969 Los Angeles fable starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. The auteur hit yet another original creation out of the…

  • Daily Podcast: Is Morbius Part of the McU? Uncharted, Parasite, Ex Machina and Super Nintendo World

    Daily Podcast: Is Morbius Part of the McU? Uncharted, Parasite, Ex Machina and Super Nintendo World

    On the January 14, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the Morbius trailer and how the movie connects to the McU, a new Uncharted director, more details on the Parasite HBO series, Bryan K Vaughan’s Ex Machina movie,…

  • Korean Media Celebrates Oscar Nominations for ‘Parasite’

    Korean Media Celebrates Oscar Nominations for ‘Parasite’

    Mainstream Korean media gave pride of place to Monday’s unprecedented haul of six Oscar nominations for Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite.” The dark satire was nominated in categories including best international feature film, best screenplay and best picture.Digital editions of The Korea Herald newspaper made “Parasite” its front page lead. The story was accompanied by a picture…