Frankenstein‘s Guillermo del Toro simply added his stamp of approval to the Korean thriller No Different Alternative. Del Toro has directed a number of acclaimed motion pictures, together with Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, and The Form of Water. His most up-to-date venture, a retelling of Frankenstein, acquired 5 nominations on the Golden Globe Awards.
Now that the Golden Globes are within the rearview mirror, the largest awards present of the 12 months is simply two months away, and del Toro desires to make it possible for No Different Alternative receives recognition on the Academy Awards. The filmmaker took to X to share that new thriller is one among his prime three favourite Park Chan-wook movies. “Search it please!” he exclaimed.
No Different Alternative, which stars Lee Byung-hun as an unemployed one that will not hesitate to go to excessive lengths to land a job, earned a powerful 98% Rotten Tomatoes rating, which is 13% larger than del Toro’s Frankenstein. The movie’s solid additionally consists of Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won, and Yoo Yeon-seok.
On the Golden Globes, No Different Alternative was up for 3 awards: Greatest Movement Image – Musical or Comedy, Greatest Actor – Musical or Comedy (Lee Byung-hun), and Greatest Movement Image – Non-English Language. Sadly, One Battle After One other, Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), and The Secret Agent received these respective awards.
On the Critics’ Alternative Awards in early January, the film was nominated for Greatest Tailored Screenplay and Greatest Overseas Language Movie however didn’t safe a win in both class. The place No Different Alternative has discovered success is at a number of movie festivals, together with the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, Newport Seashore Movie Competition, and Stockholm Worldwide Movie Competition.
The Academy Awards are scheduled for March 15, with nomination voting now underway. Del Toro clearly timed his reward of No Different Alternative to coincide with this subsequent section of the award course of.
The Frankenstein director is an Academy member, so he will get to vote on the Oscar nominations. It is doable his public shoutout of No Different Alternative may affect his fellow members’ selections when selecting the nominations. Fifteen movies made the shortlist within the Worldwide Characteristic Movie class.
Together with No Different Alternative, the shortlist consists of Belén (Argentina), The Secret Agent (Brazil), It Was Simply an Accident (France), Sound of Falling (Germany), Homebound (India), The President’s Cake (Iraq), Kokuho (Japan), All That is Left of You (Jordan), Sentimental Worth (Norway), Palestine 36 (Palestine), Sirât (Spain), Late Shift (Switzerland), Left-Handed Woman (Taiwan) and The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia).
Solely 5 of those motion pictures will make the ultimate minimize when the nominations are introduced on January 22.
Park’s movie Choice to Go away was additionally shortlisted for the Oscars in 2023 however was shut out of the ultimate nominations checklist. There are fewer than two weeks to go till del Toro finds out if No Different Alternative lands a nomination. If that involves move, the filmmaker will little question have fun on social media.
- Launch Date
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September 24, 2025
- Runtime
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139 minutes
- Director
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Park Chan-wook
- Writers
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Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, Donald E. Westlake, Lee Ja-hye, Park Chan-wook
- Producers
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Michèle Ray-Gavras, Miky Lee, Again Ji-sun, Alexandre Gavras, Oh Hyeon-am, Park Chan-wook
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Lee Byung-hun
Yoo Man-soo
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