Israel’s short film “White Eye” was nominated for an Oscar on Monday, while 1930s Netflix Hollywood drama “Mank” led the nomination with 10 nodes, including best picture, director and for his main actors.
White Eye is a 20-minute “one-shot” film directed and written by Tomer Shushan, which tells the story of a man who is trying to recover the stolen bike from a stranger and which “struggles with human survival”. It has been nominated in the Best Live Action Short Film category.
Other best photo nods went to the depressing drama “The Father, Black Panther story” Judas and the Black Messiah, “Korean language drama” Minari, “Nomadland”, #MeToo revenge story “Promising Young Woman,” deaf drama “Sound of Metal, “and the 1960s Vietnam War courtroom drama” The Trial of the Chicago 7 “- all received six nodes in total.
Netflix led all studios with 35 nodes after a year in which coronavirus pandemic was delaying scores of new shows or sending them to streaming platforms.
The Oscars, the highest honors in the film industry, will be presented at a concert on April 25 to be held both at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, and, for the first time, at Station Union in Downtown Los Angeles, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday. The format of the ceremony has not yet been announced.
China-born director Chloe Zhao grabbed one of the top five director nodes for “Nomadland,” the Searchlight Pictures released about today’s female residents of the United States . British director Emerald Fennell was also nominated for “Promising Young Woman.”
Only one woman, Kathryn Bigelow, has ever won an Oscar for best director. 76 names have ever gone to women, the academy said.
Leading nominees included the late Oscar first nod for the late Chadwick Boseman for his latest film, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Frances McDormand and Viola Davis and Britons Carey Mulligan, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Hopkins and Riz Ahmed – the first Muslim to be named in the best actor category.
South Korean actress Yuh-Jung Youn, who plays a supporting role as a cantankerous grandmother in “Minari,” was the first Korean actress to receive an Oscar. Another team member Steven Yeun and director Lee Isaac Chung received nods for the moving story of a Korean immigrant family trying to make a living in the United States in the 1980s.
“I’ve never in my dreams ever thought that a Korean actress would be nominated for an Oscar, and I can’t believe it’s me!” Youn said in a statement.
One notable omission from the main Oscar races was Spike Lee’s Vietnamese war drama “Da 5 Bloods.”
The nominations, however, were varied, with several of them going to stories featuring non-white actors or about Black culture, including “One Night in Miami” which received three nods, and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. “