Oscars: Thailand Selects How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies For International Feature Film Race

The National Federation of Thai Film Associations (MPC) has selected How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies as Thailand‘s submission for the Oscars‘ best international feature film category.

Directed by Pat Boonnitipat, the film became a box office hit across Asia, with the global box office currently reaching $50M.

Outside of Thailand, How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies has become the most successful Thai film of all time in Singapore and Malaysia. In Indonesia, the film received more than 3.5 million admissions, surpassing Korean horror film Exhuma (2.6 million admissions) to become the all-time most successful Asian film in the country. Netflix later picked up the film’s streaming rights for Southeast Asia.

Produced by Thai film studio GDH, the film follows a young man, M, who moves in to take care of his terminally-ill grandmother in a bid to win her inheritance. M is played by top singer-actor Putthipong Assaratanakul (also known as Billkin).