After weeks of staticity, there’s a new face in our Experts’ Best Director Oscar top five. “Minari’s” Lee Isaac Chung has entered in fifth place, according to our racetrack odds. Chung knocked out Paul Greengrass (“News of the World”), and is behind frontrunner Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”), David Fincher (“Mank”), Regina King (“One Night in Miami”) and Aaron Sorkin (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”).
Chung actually broke into the top five in the combined odds two weeks ago, but he didn’t experience that boost among the Experts until this week. The writer-director has been on a steady rise the past month — on Dec. 17, he was in eighth place and had inched up to sixth two weeks ago. He’s currently doing better in the combined odds as well, having climbed to fourth place, behind Zhao, Fincher and Sorkin, and ahead of King.
An intimate indie, “Minari” doesn...
Chung actually broke into the top five in the combined odds two weeks ago, but he didn’t experience that boost among the Experts until this week. The writer-director has been on a steady rise the past month — on Dec. 17, he was in eighth place and had inched up to sixth two weeks ago. He’s currently doing better in the combined odds as well, having climbed to fourth place, behind Zhao, Fincher and Sorkin, and ahead of King.
An intimate indie, “Minari” doesn...
- 1/22/2021
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
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