hamaguchi first bursting into prominence with hits like "happy hour" -- "adesako" 1 and 2.nterpreter to talk about the historic moment of his latest film. why do you think it took this long for a japanese film to be nominated in this category? >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> translator: i think there has been many great japanese films in the past. a part of me thinks that there's a change in the academy that has also led to this. but also the way asian films have been received as changed as well. >> reporter: a change in academy sparked by massive backlash. back in 2015 and 2016 when hollywood was accused of lacking diversity. >> the academy awards nominated 20 white actors in a row for the best actor, best supporting actor races. so that got trending, this hashtag oscars so white, and kind of motivated the academy to make some changes. >> reporter: some of these changes inviting a more diverse class of voters into the academy. these members ultimately tasked with deciding who gets a golden statue. do you think that "drive my car" could have gotten all these nomination

. >> reporter: this morning, the director behind "drive my car" ryusuke hamaguchi is still in disbeliefsame grouping as steven spielberg, jane campion. all of these directors, it's incredible to me. >> reporter: "drive my car" is also nominated for best picture, the first japanese film to ever be nominated for the category. it's the latest foreign film to sweep up nominations following "roma" in 2019 and "parasite" in 2020. the movie focusing on a widowed stage director who befriends a chauffeur following how they deal with loss and grief. that sentiment meeting the moment for many viewers during the pandemic. >> why do you think so many people were moved by this film? [speaking foreign language] >> translator: one of the reasons i think has a lot to do with the coronavirus pandemic, and a second part really is it's a story about what it means to keep on living. >> reporter: the film coming at a historic time during the academy when massive changes were made after the 2015 and 2016 oscars so white backlash when they were accused of lacking diversity. [speaking foreign language] >> trans

well, and finally, the tenth nominee, sit behind the wheel of my car draw hamaguchi and a film adaptation of the story of haruki-murakami, the main character, theater director. dreaming of staging chekhov's uncle vanya who of these ten will win, we will find out very soon such show business news today. marina kazantseva was with you. see you later in our program. we have the right to receive legal consultation, we will go through physiotherapy with our consumer supervision, we will go to the perm territory. we'll eat fish jelly with federico arnolde, we'll talk about stress with dr. light lawyer. our viewers ask about the adopted changes to the traffic rules and the code of administrative offenses. you really can call this year a record one, and the number of changes in the laws of norms and rules in the field of traffic. and this is a natural logical process, by the way, and very effective as follows from the statistics for over the past 10 years, the number of road deaths has decreased by one third. and this is just an incredible result. they say this despite the fact that the car park