Atomic bomb movie ‘Oppenheimer’ crowned best picture at the Oscars
Los Angeles, US Reuters Oppenheimer, the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed seven Academy Awards including the prestigious best picture trophy on Sunday as Hollywood celebrated a triumphant year in film. Irish actor Cillian Murphy won best actor for playing theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the US […]
Battle-scarred Taiwanese islands star in Oscar nominated film
Taipei, Taiwan Reuters A film about frontline Taiwanese islands repeatedly fought over with China during the height of the Cold War is vying to win an Oscar this year, with its director hoping the attention will help better explain tensions over Taiwan to a broader audience. Taiwanese-American director S Leo Chiang’s 19 minute-long Island in […]
Offbeat multiverse movie ‘Everything Everywhere’ dominates the Oscars
Los Angeles, USReuters Everything Everywhere All at Once won the coveted best picture trophy at the Academy Awards on Sunday as Hollywood embraced an off-kilter story about a Chinese-American family working out their problems across multiple dimensions. The movie claimed seven awards overall, including three of the four acting Oscars for stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke […]
Faith on film: Oscar nominee ‘Minari’ spotlights Korean American faith and the role of the church
Ahead of the Academy Awards on Sunday night, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, looks at the film ‘Minari’…
Postcards: Oscar nominee ‘Nomadland’ spotlights Amazon’s RV workforce
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at how the film ‘Nomadland’ has shone a light on itinerant workers living in RVs in the US…
A Sudan in transition presents first-ever film for Oscars
Cairo, EgyptAP Nearly two years after the overthrow of autocrat Omar al-Bashir, Sudan is taking steps to rejoin the international community from which it was long shunned. That includes its film industry. For the first time in its history, Sudan has a submission for the Academy Awards. Produced by a consortium of European and Egyptian […]
With Oscar glory, ‘Parasite’ shines light on Seoul’s housing crisis
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation South Korean film Parasite, which became the first non-English language movie to win the Best Picture award at the Oscars, highlights the widening divide and lack of affordable housing in the capital Seoul, according to social analysts and academics. Director Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, which also won Oscars for Best Original Screenplay, […]
‘Parasite’ from South Korea makes Oscar history with best picture win
Los AngelesReuters South Korean social satire Parasite won the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, making history as the first film not in the English language to win the movie industry’s highest honour. Parasite, about the gap between rich and poor in modern Seoul, won a total of four Oscars, including best director and screenplay […]
Interfaith film misses Oscar, but raises hope in Africa
RNS A scene from ‘Watu Wote’, based on the militant ambush of a Mandera, Kenya, bus in December, 2015. PICTURE: Courtesy of Hamberg Media School It didn’t bring home an Oscar this week, but a film nominated for one is helping to spread a message that many Africans said is too rarely heard: that people […]