'Parasite' Also Targets the British Academy... Nominated for 4 Categories Including Best Film

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‘Parasite,’ the first Korean film to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Foreign Language, is also targeting the 73rd British Academy Film Awards. The festival announced the final list of nominees in each category on the 7th (Korean time). Parasite was nominated in four categories: Best Film, Best Director, Best Film Not In The English Language, and Best Original Screenplay.

Parasite competes for Best Film against Sam Mendes’ ‘1917,’ Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman,’ Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker,’ and Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.’ The films competing in the Best Film Not In The English Language category include Lulu Wang’s ‘The Farewell,’ Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ ‘For Sama,’ Pedro Almod?var’s ‘Pain and Glory,’ and C?line Sciamma’s ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire.’

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Director Bong Joon-ho joined the Best Director nominees alongside Mendes for ‘1917,’ Scorsese for ‘The Irishman,’ Phillips for ‘Joker,’ and Tarantino for ‘Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.’ He was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay together with writer Han Jin-won. Other screenwriters competing in this category include Susanna Fogel and three others for ‘Booksmart,’ Rian Johnson for ‘Knives Out,’ Noah Baumbach for ‘Marriage Story,’ and Tarantino for ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’

The British Academy Film Awards can be considered the British version of the Academy Awards, the world’s largest film awards. It is notable for having separate awards exclusively for British films and filmmakers. Director Park Chan-wook’s ‘The Handmaiden’ was the first Korean film to win the Best Film Not In The English Language award at this festival in 2018. This year’s ceremony will be held on the 2nd of next month (local time) in London, UK.

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