When your landmark movie will get a shock, history-making Oscar nomination, there’s trigger for celebration. And that’s precisely what the workforce behind Godzilla Minus One did earlier right this moment when the movie was nominated for Best Visual Effects.
The nod, which places it up in opposition to such Hollywood heavyweights as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (in addition to The Creator and Napoleon) made it the first Japanese language movie to ever earn a nomination in the class. And right here’s how the workforce reacted the second it occurred.
Now that’s simply superb, don’t you suppose?
And whereas the nomination was clearly a shock, there was a concerted push for it. A number of weeks again the Hollywood Reporter did a characteristic on the movie’s results, claiming it had a shot at a nomination. The article additionally revealed the form of stunning incontrovertible fact that solely 35 individuals labored on the results for the movie’s 610 pictures. (This raises an entire different set of extra complicated questions, which is an entire different story.) Either approach, it’s a powerful feat on all kinds of ranges for a movie that value barely a fraction of its opponents.
Written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus One has grow to be a professional phenomenon at the U.S. field workplace, grossing over $50 million. That quantity additionally makes it the highest-grossing Japanese film, live-action or animation, in U.S. historical past, in addition to the fifth-highest international language movie ever. It’s been so standard in reality that beginning Friday, January 26, its distributor is releasing a particular black and white model known as Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color to pay homage to the unique Godzilla movies that impressed it.
And now, that thrilling Oscar nomination can solely assist it.
If you haven’t seen Godzilla Minus One, we strongly urge you to go test it out. io9 didn’t title it our favourite movie of 2023 for nothing.
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