Drive My Car is a 2021 Japanese drama directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, adapting a Haruki Murakami short story about a theater director who, while grieving his wife's death, stages a multilingual production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima and forms a quiet bond with the young woman assigned to drive him. It won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and the Best Screenplay award at Cannes, and became the first Japanese film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Did Drive My Car win an Academy Award?
Yes. It won International Feature Film and its director was also nominated for Directing.
Yes. The Academy's ceremony page for 2022 lists Drive My Car, submitted by Japan, as the winner of the International Feature Film award. The same page lists its director Ryusuke Hamaguchi among the nominees for Directing, an award that went to Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog.
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Drive My Car (Japanese: ドライブ・マイ・カー, Hepburn: Doraibu Mai Kā) is a 2021 Japanese drama film directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Takamasa Oe.
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Drive My Car is a 2021 Japanese drama directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, adapting a Haruki Murakami short story about a theater director who, while grieving his wife's death, stages a multilingual production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima and forms a quiet bond with the young woman assigned to drive him.
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Drive My Car (Japanese: ドライブ・マイ・カー, Hepburn: Doraibu Mai Kā) is a 2021 Japanese drama film directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Takamasa Oe.
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Drive My Car (Japanese: ドライブ・マイ・カー, Hepburn: Doraibu Mai Kā) is a 2021 Japanese drama film directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Takamasa Oe.
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