Donald Trump, pictured right here in 2015.
Isaac Brekken/StringerThere are over two dozen classes on the Academy Awards, however the giant winner of this yr’s Oscars used to be for sure South Korean flick Parasite. Now not handiest did it ranking Very best Image, nevertheless it additionally gained statues for Very best Director, Very best World Characteristic Movie and Very best Authentic Screenplay. Which movie wins Very best Image is at all times debatable, and one one that’s now not about Parasite’s victory is the president of america.
“How unhealthy had been the Academy Awards this yr?” President Donald Trump requested the group at a Colorado rally on Thursday, stories Selection. “The winner is… a film from South Korea! What the hell used to be that about?”
Trump proceeded to object to Parasite’s Oscar wins now not according to the standard of the movie itself, which he seems to not have noticed. Reasonably, he is extra thinking about the USA’ stability sheet with South Korea — and taking his “The united states first” method to the movie trade.
“We were given sufficient issues of South Korea with business. On most sensible of that, they provide them easiest film of the yr? Used to be it excellent? I do not know. Let’s get Long past With the Wind. Are we able to get Long past With the Wind again, please?”
Parasite is the primary overseas movie ever to win the Very best Image nod. It is also the primary international-language film to win a Display screen Actors Guild Award for Exceptional Efficiency through a Forged in a Movement Image. Past crucial acclaim — 96 on Metacritic and 99% on Rotten Tomatoes — it is usually been an enormous good fortune on the field workplace. It is made over $200 million on the international field workplace, virtually 20 instances its $11 million funds.
The Oscars is turning into an annual punching bag for Trump, because the president has persistently discovered factor with the award rite. Final yr, Trump criticized Spike Lee’s Oscars speech (after profitable Very best Tailored Screenplay) a “racist hit to your president.” In 2018, Trump mocked the display with a tweet announcing it used to be the lowest-rated Oscars in historical past (it used to be). It is not a one-way side road although, as 2017’s display used to be famous for its circulation of anti-Trump pronouncements from celebrities and award winners.
