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Drive My Car

On March 2, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, co-writer and director of this Japanese film, and Bong Joon Ho, writer-director of Parasite (which was up for the same four Oscars), were jointly profiled in The New York Times. And on March 7, at THR’s Nominees Night party, Questlove told producer Teruhisa Yamamoto that President Barack Obama urged him to check it out.