Now that he’s won Oscar gold, Godzilla is heading to the New York Film Festival. The long-running event is set to world premiere Godzilla Minus Zero as its Spotlight Gala selection on September 26, with director Takashi Yamazaki and members of the cast and crew that charmed Oscar viewers in 2024 in attendance. (No information yet on whether they’ll be wearing their Godzilla-claw shoes.)
A splashy premiere at an international film festival is new for the Godzilla series — the last Godzilla film premiered in Tokyo in October 2023 before making its way abroad. But, as we’ve covered before, Godzilla Minus One was a game-changer for the series, making the kind of money at the international box office and receiving the kind of rave reviews that make a crossover hit possible. Inverse’s Eric Francisco loved it, writing, “it is not hyperbole to say Godzilla Minus One is perhaps one of the finest movies of the kaiju genre ever put to screen since Ishiro Honda’s Gojira kicked off the franchise in 1954,” in his review. And that was before it won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
