Oscars 2020: Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite' Becomes First South Korean Film To Win Best Picture Award
Bong Joon Ho's Parasite scripted history at the Oscars by becoming the first South Korean film to be nominated and win in the Best Picture, Director, International Feature and in Screenplay category.
Director
Bong
Joon
Ho's
Parasite
scripted
history
at
the
Oscars
by
becoming
the
first
South
Korean
film
to
be
nominated
and
win
in
the
Best
Picture,
Director,
International
Feature
and
in
Screenplay
category
at
the
92nd
Academy
Awards.
It
was
the
second
Oscar
win
of
the
night
for
the
film,
a
twisted
class
satire
that
defies
genres
in
trademark
Bong
style.
The
director
and
his
co-scribe
Han
Jin-won
have
already
received
the
best
original
screenplay
Oscar.
Bong
Joon
Ho
lauded
the
Academy
of
Motion
Picture
Arts
and
Sciences
for
renaming
the
category
in
an
attempt
to
be
more
inclusive.
"The
category
has
a
new
name
now
from
best
foreign
language
to
best
international
feature
film.
I'm
so
happy
to
be
its
first
recipient
under
the
new
name.
I
applaud
and
support
the
new
direction
that
this
change
symbolises,"
the
director
said.
"I'm
bloody
ready
to
drink
tonight," he
added
amid
a
round
of
applause
and
laughter
from
the
audience.
It
is
yet
to
be
seen
whether
the
film,
which
entered
the
competition
with
six
nominations,
manages
to
win
the
top
awards
of
the
ceremony,
the
best
picture
and
director
but
its
win
in
the
international
category
was
a
sure
shot.
South
Korea
has
been
submitting
its
entries
for
the
award,
which
was
earlier
called
the
best
foreign-language
film,
since
1962.
"Parasite" was
pitted
against
"Pain
and
Glory"
(Spain),
"Les
Miserables"
(France),
"Corpus
Christi"
(Poland)
and
"Honeyland"
(North
Macedonia).