What Can Directors Guild and BAFTA Awards Tell Us About the Oscars?
In an unprecedented season, it may not make much sense to turn to precedent about pre-Oscar contestsSteve Pond | April 9, 2021 @ 10:26 AM
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In a normal year, this weekend’s Directors Guild Awards and EE British Academy Film Awards would go a long way toward clarifying the Academy Awards picture only a few days before Oscar voting begins next Thursday.
But as we hardly need to remind you, this is not a normal year.
Sure, the person who wins the Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film award from the DGA will probably go on to win the Best Director Oscar, just as they have all but four times in this century and all but eight times in the 72 years. And sure, that might give that director’s film a leg up in the Best Picture race, which the DGA winner has taken more than 50 times.
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Academy Award winner Bong Joon-ho, who is the man behind the critically acclaimed film Parasite is paying back to the film industry.
The 51-year-old director expresses his support to the Korean independent films by donating $267,000 or 300 million won.
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In a recent report, his agency Barunson E&A released an official statement saying that the renowned filmmaker is who was selected as the winner of the 2021 Samsung Hoam Award in the art award category, will donate 300 million won to the support project for the development of independent films.