Ryusuke Hagamuchi’s Drive My Car has received an Oscar nomination in the Best Picture category.
The 3-hour drama revolves around a widowed theater director, whose new job as the director of a production of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, makes him fall in love with his chauffeur, while confronting unhealed wounds from the past.
Peter Travers of ABC News believes Drive My Car is “the best movie you never heard of, a flat-out masterpiece from Japan that’s a frontrunner to win the foreign-film Oscar and maybe pull a ‘Parasite” and compete for Best Picture. Why not? It’s enthralling from first scene to last.”
Considering he wrote the above review last month, it seems Peter’s pseudo-prophecy has come to pass as the movie received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, alongside other astonishing movies like Belfast, CODA, Don’t Look Up, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, & the movie with 12 nominations, The Power of The Dog.
See full list of nominees for the Oscars 2022 here
