Why anything less than a Best Picture Oscar for ‘Parasite’ is not enough

Hello! It's the biggest day of the year in movies: Oscar Sunday, the cinematic Super Bowl at the end [Compass] [Presented by]( [Yousician]( Hello! It’s the biggest day of the year in movies: Oscar Sunday, the cinematic Super Bowl at the end of a long award-season. Tonight, the Academy will reveal which of its nine chosen contenders is (technically!) the year’s Best Picture. ‘Parasite’ is by no means underrated. It won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival last spring and went on to dazzle critics worldwide all year long. And yet, Bong Joon-Ho’s film still feels like something of a long shot for winning Best Picture. Let’s take a look at [all the reasons why 'Parasite’ deserves that honor]( more than any other 2019 film. —[Joe Berkowitz]( [Why anything less than a Best Picture Oscar for ‘Parasite’ is not enough]( [Why anything less than a Best Picture Oscar for ‘Parasite’ is not enough]( The South Korean parable about class war is beloved but not the favorite for the Academy’s highest honor. Why ‘Parasite’ deserves it. (Warning: Spoilers!) [fastcompany.com]( [The unbelievable 26-year journey ‘Harriet’ took from idea to big-screen success]( [The unbelievable 26-year journey ‘Harriet’ took from idea to big-screen success]( The new biopic of Harriet Tubman is a surprise hit, but it took nearly three decades for a studio to bite. Screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard explains his odyssey. [fastcompany.com]( [How Dove is playing it cool with Oscar-nominated animated short film ‘Hair Love’]( [How Dove is playing it cool with Oscar-nominated animated short film ‘Hair Love’]( The Unilever brand is playing a soft =-sell marketer in the critically-acclaimed short. [fastcompany.com]( A MESSAGE FROM YOUSICIAN [This amazing app will teach you to play piano]( [This amazing app will teach you to play piano]( Seven out of ten adults want to be able to play an instrument. Many of them never do because they think it’s expensive, inconvenient–or that it’s simply too late for them to start. A Helsinki-based startup called Yousician set out to solve this problem by creating an app that combines expertly taught video lessons with amazing, Guitar Hero-esque gamification that listens to you play and gives you real-time feedback. For a limited time, you can try the service free for 14 days and learn guitar, piano, ukulele, bass, or even singing. [yousician.com]( [Stop selling your kids short with just Disney and Pixar films]( [Stop selling your kids short with just Disney and Pixar films]( The next wave of visual and storytelling innovation in animated movies is here. Can the streaming revolution make it popular? [fastcompany.com]( [Rocketman settles it. Hollywood needs to burn down the traditional rock biopic]( [Rocketman settles it. Hollywood needs to burn down the traditional rock biopic]( What if filmmakers had the courage to abandon formulaic music biographies and embrace the reckless joy of the jukebox musicals? [fastcompany.com]( [‘Knives Out’ caps off a year full of genre movies about class struggle]( [‘Knives Out’ caps off a year full of genre movies about class struggle]( Rian Johnson, who wrote and directed ‘Knives Out,’ weighs in as we explore why 2019 was such a rich year for genre movies about inequality. [fastcompany.com]( [The original ‘Lion King’ had a racist hyena problem. The new film fixes that, with mixed results.]( [The original ‘Lion King’ had a racist hyena problem. The new film fixes that, with mixed results.]( In the animated original, the hyenas were depicted as crass lowlifes that many interpreted as thinly veiled stand-ins for minorities. The new version goes in a different direction. [fastcompany.com]( [Everything “Avengers: Endgame” gets right (and wrong) about time travel]( [Everything “Avengers: Endgame” gets right (and wrong) about time travel]( The film accurately calls out absurd time-traveling tropes in pop culture, but it also falls for the biggest time-traveling plot hole of them all. MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD. [fastcompany.com]( [Disney licensed Toy Story 4’s Forky for a $30 talking doll—I made one for $12]( [Disney licensed Toy Story 4’s Forky for a $30 talking doll—I made one for $12]( Forky, the handmade spork doll in ‘Toy Story 4,’ is being mass-produced as toys IRL, undercutting the film’s message about the magic of childhood DIY crafts. So I made my own Forky. [fastcompany.com]( Did you enjoy this issue? [Fast Company] You can [update your details here](. If you don’t want to receive Compass anymore, [unsubscribe here]( If you were forwarded Compass and like it, [subscribe here]( [View this newsletter online]( Powered by [Revue]( 7 World Trade Center, 29th Floor, New York, NY 10007-2195