@STjohnlui

Film critic at The Straits Times

 Singapore
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Joined April 2014
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Surprise win for Bong. He is the second Asian director after Lee Ang (Brokeback Mountain and Life Of Pi) to win Best Director
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@TheAcademy10 Feb 2020
#Oscars Moment: Bong Joon Ho accepts the Oscar for Best Directing for @ParasiteMovie.
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WELL DESERVED! @PARASITE WINS BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM! Complete with a standing ovation for Bong Joon-ho! # First South Korean nominee for this category and it wins! He named and thanked all his actors! @neonrated Bong: I'm really ready to drink tonight! PHOTO: REUTERS
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Bong Joon Ho gets a standing ovation. Also asks the room for applause for his cast. "I am ready to drink," he adds
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@TheAcademy10 Feb 2020
It’s official! #Oscars
Japan-born American makeup artist Hiro Kazu has a way with prosthetics - he won an Oscar for turning Gary Oldman into Churchill in Darkest Hour and for turning John Lithgow into Roger Ailes in Bombshell
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@IMDb10 Feb 2020
Congratulations to #KazuHiro, #AnneMorgan, and #VivianBaker for winning best #MakeupAndHairstyling in #Bombshell! #Oscars2020
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Best Cinematography #Oscars winner Roger Deakins breaks down creating the incredibly difficult "one-shot" look of #1917Move
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AMERICAN FACTORY's Julia Reichert: "Just being in the presence, in the company of our brother and sister documentarians who risked their lives ... bringing stories to us about hospitals being bombed in Syria, about Brazil, about Macedonia ... We are inspired by you guys."
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The first film by the @BarackObama and @MichelleObama production company Higher Ground Productions - American Factory - just picked up Best Documentary Feature! #Oscars Congratulations to @netflix @NetflixFilm too! PHOTO: NETFLIX
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I’ve watched 2 of the 5, Missing Link isn’t one of them but I’m SO GLAD it wasn’t Lion King or Frozen 2.
John Lui@STjohnlui6 Jan 2020
Shocks all round as Missing Link wins Best Animation, beating Frozen 2, Toy Story 4, The Lion King, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World #GoldenGlobes
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WW1 movie 1917 wins Best Picture Drama. Director Sam Mendes urges everyone to watch it on the big screen - and it opens in Singapore this week #GoldenGlobes and that is all folks!
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Renee Zellweger wins Best Actress Motion Picture - Drama for playing Judy Garland in the biopic Judy which opens in Singapore this week #GoldenGlobes
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Joaquin Phoenix wins Best Actor Motion Picture Drama for playing the antihero Joker and appropriately gives a speech with at least 3 f-bombs, saying that award shows are made to sell television advertising and begging Hollywood to "stop taking private jets" #GoldenGIobes
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After securing a Best Supporting Actor win for Brad Pitt and Best Screenplay win for Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood has its third win of the night by bagging the Best Motion Picture Comedy Or Musical award #goldenglobes
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A genuinely surprised Awkwafina steps up to receive her Best Actress Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her part in The Farewell. In her speech, she says it is her first time at the Golden Globes #GoldenGlobes
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Taron Egerton wins Best Actor, Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her part in Rocketman, the biopic of Elton John, after Elton and Bernie Taupin won for Best Original Song #GoldenGIobes
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Brad Pitt wins Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture for his part in Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood. It's the second win for the film after writer-director Quentin Tarantino won Best Screenplay #GoldenGlobes
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