The Best Film Scores of 2020
April 5, 2021 by admin
Hasitha Fernando on the best film scores of 2020…
The film industry took a devastating hit due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, and even as of yet we are seeing the ripple effect of it over a year later. Theatres closed down indefinitely, many tentpole release dates were pushed back and production activities came to a crunching halt. In spite of the aforementioned limitations, a few studios were brave enough to squeeze in a few of their tentpole releases like
Tenet and
Wonder Woman 1984 last year but their dismal box-office returns were less than promising.
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By Kwak Yeon-soo
Award-winning filmmaker Erick Oh s new independent short film Opera, which was shortlisted in the animated short film category at the 93rd Academy Awards, depicts the beauty and cruelty of human life within a pyramid-shaped structure.
With Opera being the only Asian film among the 10 shortlisted in the category, the former Pixar animator is now waiting for the nominations to be announced on March 15. It feels surreal to be shortlisted in the animated short film category at the Oscars. If it wasn t for the pandemic, I would be going to cool places to hold physical screenings and promote the film. But due to the pandemic, I was able to devote more time on my next project, Oh said during a recent interview with The Korea Times via Zoom.
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MIZUE Mirai
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1981, MIZUE Mirai is an animation director who creates non-narrative pieces with cellular and geometric motifs. Known for his unique, eye-catching abstract animations, MIZUE is involved in a wide variety of projects that include independent animation and music videos. Nominated at all four of the world s top animated film festivals (Annecy, Ottowa, Hiroshima, and Zagreb), his most famous work,
MODERN No. 2 enjoyed its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and won the Original Music Prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The world premiere of MIZUE s
Wonder took place at the Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win the CANAL + Creative Aid prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. He is currently working on his first full-length animation, tentatively titled