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Among its numerous accolades, Parasite won four awards at the 92nd Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film. It became the first South Korean film to receive Academy Award recognition, as well as the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture.
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Academy Awards, USA. 2020 Winner Oscar. Best Motion Picture of the Year. Kwak Sin-ae. Bong Joon Ho. Parasite (2019) became the first foreign language film to win Best Picture. 2020 Winner Oscar. Best Achievement in Directing. Bong Joon Ho.
Among its numerous accolades, Parasite won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards, becoming the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. [note 1] It won an additional three Oscars, for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film.
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- Kwak Sin-ae, Moon Yang-kwon, Bong Joon-ho, Jang Young-hwan
Nov 8, 2019 · Parasite: Directed by Bong Joon Ho. With Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik. Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
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Parasite, South Korean thriller and black-comedy film, released in 2019, that was the first Korean film to win the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival and the first foreign-language film to win the Academy Award for best picture. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite was praised for its sharp writing, memorable perfo...
Director and screenwriter Bong came up with the idea for Parasite after a friend suggested that he try writing and directing a play. Thinking of a storyline that would make good use of the limited space of a stage production, Bong decided on a story with a setting that requires only two houses—one rich, one poor. To write the script, he drew on per...
The film follows the Kims, a poor family comprising father Ki-Taek (Song Kang-Ho), mother Chung-Sook (Jang Hye-Jin), son Ki-Woo (Choi Woo-Shik), and daughter Ki-Jung (Park So-Dam). The family members live in a bug-infested semi-basement apartment in Seoul, where they struggle to pay their bills doing menial work such as folding pizza boxes for a delivery company. An opportunity arises when a friend of Ki-Woo’s tells him about a position tutoring the child of a wealthy family, the Parks, who have a teenage daughter who is learning English in high school. However, to qualify for the position, Ki-Woo will have to pretend to be a college student even though he has never been able to afford to go to college. Ki-Jung, a gifted artist, helps her brother forge the necessary credentials, and Ki-Woo presents himself as “Kevin” at the Parks’ elegant, spacious home. But before giving Ki-Woo the job, the tightly wound Mrs. Park, Yeon-Kyo (Cho Yeo-Jeong), wants to sit in on a lesson with her daughter, Da-Hye (Jung Ji-So). Ki-Woo impresses them both with his teaching style, and Yeon-Kyo hires him.
Immediately, the Kims scheme to insert themselves into the Park household one by one, pretending to be unrelated to each other. Ki-Woo recommends Ki-Jung as an art teacher for the Parks’ son, Da-Song (Jung Hyeon-Jun). After being hired, Ki-Jung (going by the name “Jessica”) convinces Yeon-Kyo that Da-Song requires expensive art therapy and tricks Mr. Park, Dong-Ik (Lee Sun-Kyun), into firing his driver, who is quickly replaced by Ki-Taek. The Kims then target the Parks’ housekeeper, Moon-Gwang (Lee Jung-Eun), who worked for the original owner and architect of the house and stayed on after he sold the house to the Parks. Exploiting Moon-Gwang’s allergy to peaches, the Kims lead Yeon-Kyo to believe that Moon-Gwang has tuberculosis. In perfect accordance with the Kims’ plan, a worried Yeon-Kyo fires Moon-Gwang and replaces her with Chung-Sook.
Parasite garnered near-universal critical acclaim, with many critics calling it a career high for the already well-regarded Bong. The film’s combination of dark humor and piercing social critique allowed it to delve into disturbing themes and scenarios while still being enormously entertaining. Critics praised the layered representation of class conflicts, suggesting that the film’s title—which refers to an organism that benefits at the expense of a host—could apply to virtually every character. It was also hailed as a virtuosic work on a technical level, with particular praise being given for the production design that contrasted the Kims’ cramped, rundown apartment with the Parks’ pristine mansion.
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The film won a number of major awards, including South Korea’s Grand Bell Award for best film, and it was the unanimous winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes. It received six Academy Award nominations in 2020, which was the first year in the history of the awards that South Korean films were recognized with Academy Award nominations (a South Korean documentary short was also nominated that year). It won in the categories of directing, original screenplay, international feature, and best picture, marking the first time in the history of the Oscars that a foreign-language film took home the top prize. Its other Academy Award nominations were for production design and film editing.
•Production companies: Barunson E&A and CJ Entertainment
•Director: Bong Joon-Ho
•Writers: Bong Joon-Ho and Han Jin-Won
•Music: Jung Jae-Il
•Cinematographer: Hong Kyung-Pyo
•Editor: Yang Jin-Mo
•Choi Woo-Shik (Kim Ki-Woo)
•Park So-Dam (Kim Ki-Jung)
•Song Kang-Ho (Kim Ki-Taek)
•Jang Hye-Jin (Kim Chung-Sook)
•Cho Yeo-Jeong (Park Yeon-Kyo)
•Lee Sun-Kyun (Park Dong-Ik)
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Feb 9, 2020 · Noel West for The New York Times. By Kyle Buchanan and Brooks Barnes. Feb. 9, 2020. Ninety-two years of Oscar history were shattered Sunday night when the South Korean hit “Parasite” became the...
May 25, 2019 · Sat 25 May 2019 14.19 EDT. Last modified on Sat 25 May 2019 17.48 EDT. Bong Joon-ho has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival for his black comic thriller Parasite. The South...
