Oscars: ’Drive My Car’ Makes History As First Japanese Film Nominated For Best Picture
deadline.comRyusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car made history this morning, becoming the first Japanese film ever to score an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
What’s more, Hamaguchi is now only the third Japanese filmmaker to be nominated in the Best Director category. With nods in further key categories Best International Feature and Best Adapted Screenplay, Drive My Car has four nominations total, tying Akira Kurosawa’s Ran as the most-nominated film ever from Japan (though the latter was a French co-production).Drive My Car also joins an elite, but growing, club of foreign-language films to be nominated in the Best Picture category.
That includes recent winner Parasite from South Korea. (Clint Eastwood’s Letters From Iwo Jima, which was mostly in Japanese, was a Best Picture nominee, but was produced by U.S.
companies.)Suffice to say, Hamaguchi, who is currently in transit to the Berlin Film Festival where he is a jury member, is in for a big surprise when he lands.Hamaguchi co-wrote and directed Drive My Car, based on a short story by Haruki Murakami.
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