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‘Decision to break up’ failed Oscar nomination… “Strongly rejected”

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Director Park Chan-wook’s film, ‘Decision to Break Up’, failed to reach the final round of the Oscars.

‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’, a science fiction film with Asian actors, was nominated for 11 nominations.

This is reporter Kim Ji-kyung.

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Director Park Chan-wook’s ‘Decision to Break Up’, which knocked on the Oscar’s door three years after ‘Parasite’, was not listed.

It was included in the 15 preliminary nominations released in December last year, but did not reach the final nominations, and five films were chosen for the International Feature Film category: ‘Argentina 1985’, ‘Close’, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, ‘The Silent Girl’ and ‘EO’. .

Foreign media also came out with an evaluation that it was an abnormality.

The Associated Press questioned, “One of the biggest surprises this year was that the ‘decision to break up’ was left out of the nomination,” and Business Insider said, “Some people said that was the academy’s wish,” conveying the mood of the film. supporters.

The science fiction film ‘Srishing Everywhere All at Once’, starring Asian actors, was nominated for 11 nominations in 10 categories, including work, directing and editing.

Liang Zichong (Yang Ziqing), who starred in this film, was the first Asian actor to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress.

The German anti-war film ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ and Martin McDonna’s ‘Banshee in Inisherin’ are also in fierce competition with nine nominations each.

In addition to the Oscar for Best Picture this year, director Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical film ‘The Fableman’ and ‘Tar’ about the first female principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic are also considered strong candidates.

Also, Angela Bassett from ‘Black Panther’ was the first Marvel movie actress to be nominated for an acting award and drew attention.

The Academy Awards ceremony is to take place on March 12th.

This is Kim Ji-kyung from MBC News.

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