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As Oscar Voting Closes, Members Indicate Father Upsets, Actress Race Down to Viola Davis and Frances McDormand
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The final voting for the Academy Awards officially closed at 5 p.m. PT today. Speaking with multiple Academy voters, there’s something that needs to be stressed: this upcoming Oscars is a nail-biter and very close in multiple categories. With voting open for six days, it’s estimated and believed that anywhere from 20% to 30% of the Academy submitted their final ballots today, based on conversations with multiple voters and awards publicists.
AMPAS houses nearly 10,000 industry professionals from all over the world, and it’s nearly impossible to reach them all and gauge their tastes or know what they ultimately voted for. But based on a small sampling of voters, this awards race isn’t as “easy” to predict as many believe.
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Immigration to the United States is back in the conversation with Lee Isaac Chung’s
Minari being nominated for the Oscars. The film follows a South Korean family’s efforts to eke out a living in Arkansas. The culture clash and dislocation that accompany Korean immigrants to the land of easy promise and hard-won victories have previously been examined in films such as
Deep Blue Night (1985) and
America, America (1988).
In
Minari, the family is the unit through which tensions play out. The similarly life-altering experience of an Indian immigrant family is the focus of Mira Nair’s
Mississippi Masala (1991).
The film
Alan Kim in Minari (2020) | Plan B
Minari is filled with disagreements large and small – between husband and wife, faith and disbelief, farmer and land. But perhaps none of them is as memorable as the tussle between a cheeky boy and his kooky grandmother.
Starting out as adversaries and ending up as allies even as the world around them crumbles, this unlikely duo provide the most tender moments in Lee Isaac Chung’s migration drama.
The Oscar-nominated movie, which is in both Korean and English, draws on the filmmaker’s own life. Minari revolves around a South Korean immigrant family rooted in a specific culture but also universal in its reaction to adversity.