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- Along with the film's cast — which includes Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, and Jang Hye-jin — and many members of its creative team, Parasite co-producer Kwak Sin-ae took the stage and accepted the Best Picture Oscar.
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Apr 8, 2020 · Whether you're watching Parasite for the first time, or spending your quarantine seeing it again, here's a brief guide of its cast. Beware of possible spoilers ahead. Meet the actors in the...
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- Parasite Eats Away at the Competition. Bong Joon Ho's psychological thriller Parasite has officially infiltrated award season, which has historically heavily recognized films with predominantly white actors.
- A Deeper Look Into #AwardShowsSoWhite. Vulture's senior writer E. Alex Jung explained well why progress must still be made when it comes to the Oscars (and award shows in general) honoring Asian casts and actors in Hollywood.
- Critics Resist While Old Hollywood Persists. Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang echoed Jung's sentiment in his own criticism of the Oscars by explaining that Hollywood's inability to see Asians as complex, multifaceted people has continued to preserve antiquated and detrimental stereotypes.
- Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due. While there's still a long way to go for Hollywood to break its exclusionary traditions, it's important to celebrate the history-making achievements the film and director Bong have already made ahead of Sunday night's Oscars.
- Song Kang-ho as Kim Ki-Taek
- Lee Sun-kyun as Park Dong-Ik
- Cho Yeo-Jeong as Choi Yeon-Gyo
- Choi Woo-Shik as Kim Ki-Woo
- Park So-dam as Kim Ki-Jung
- Jang Hye-Jin as Kim Chung-Sook
- Lee Jung-Eun as Gook Moon-Gwang
The Patriarch Of The Kim Family
Song Kang-ho leads the Parasite cast as Kim Ki-taek, the patriarch of the Kim family. He's a cheerful person and tries his best to provide for his wife and children even as they dwell in a congested semi-basement flat in Seoul. His aspirations to earn more for his family leads him down a spiral of dark events to Parasite's ending. Song previously collaborated with Bong Joon-ho on three films before being cast in Parasite, playing Detective Park Doo-man in the crime thriller Memories of Murder...
The Father Of The Park Family
Lee Sun-kyun appears in the Parasite characters as Park Dong-ik, the male head of the Park family. He is a wealthy businessman, and even though he represents the parasitic elite class, he is otherwise a mild-mannered person. After being relegated to minor TV roles, Lee broke out as music producer Choi Han-sung in the romantic series Coffee Prince. In movies, he collaborated with arthouse auteur Hong Sang-soo, playing North Korean student Yoon Kyeong-soo inNight and Day, short film director Na...
The Mother Of The Park Family
The Park family matriarch is a homemaker and mother of two. Despite her efforts to be a caring parent, she can’t form a close bond with her children, relying on servants to take care of them. She's as kind as her husband but can come across as tone-deaf in front of people who are of a lower social status. The character is played in Parasitte by Cho Yeo-jeong, who appeared in the historical romance The Servant as Seong Chunhyang, the heroine of the Korean folktale Chunhyangjeon. She also starr...
The Son Of The Kim Family
One of the most intelligent Parasite characters, Kim Ki-woo is the Kims’ son who comes up with a plan to infiltrate the Park household. An academically gifted student, he poses as an English tutor to teach the Parks’ daughter, with whom he also starts a romantic relationship. He is highly intelligent but shy and mild-mannered in terms of his personality. The character is played by Choi Woo-shik, who first gained recognition as troubled teenager Yeong-jae in the coming-of-age drama Set Me Free...
The Daughter In The Kim Family
The Kims’ daughter and Ki-woo’s sister, Kim Ki-jung gets recruited into the Park household as an art therapist for their younger son. She is skilled at Photoshop to forge documents, and it’s this deception that makes it possible for her brother — and later the rest of her family — to gain employment at the Parks’ residence. She also adds to one of Parasite’s most surprisingly funny moments as she sings a jingle to remember her new alias’s backstory. Apart from Parasite, Park So-dam gained rec...
The Mother Of The Kim Family
Kim Chung-sook is the matriarch of the Kim family who works as a housekeeper at the Park house. A generally kind-hearted person, Chung-sook is an efficient problem solver and remains calm even in some of the most intense moments of the thriller. Before joining the Parasite cast as Chung-sook, Jang Hye-Jin was known for appearing in the popular Korean romance series Crash Landing on You, in which she played protagonist Dan’s ambitious mother, Ko Myeong-eun. She also collaborated with Korean di...
The Parks' Original Housekeeper
Gook Moon-gwang is the Parks’ original housekeeper who is fired from her job after the Kim family orchestrates a complicated plan to oust her. Though she vows vengeance against the Kims, she is otherwise depicted as a caring housekeeper who is loyal to her employers. She has had a deeper connection with the house as she also served its previous owners. Just like Song Kang-ho, Moon-gwang's actress, Lee Jung-eun, is also a frequent collaborator of Bong Joon-ho’s, first appearing as a murdered g...
- Parasite in paradise. Getty Images. The Parasite team celebrating their wins. Parasite's Bong Joon-ho beat Sir Sam to the prize for best director, and also took the best original screenplay award.
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- Joaquin Phoenix: 'I've been a scoundrel' PA Media. Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger and Brad Pitt with their statuettes. Phoenix, who won best actor for his remarkable performance in the origin story about Batman's nemesis, also used the podium to send a heartfelt message about the state of the world, saying actors have the power to give a "voice for the voiceless".
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Feb 10, 2020 · The cast and creative team for “Parasite” took the stage on Sunday to accept the award for best picture, capping off what was a huge night for the film and a significant night for global cinema.
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Joaquin Phoenix was named best actor for Joker. Brad Pitt and Laura Dern scooped the supporting acting awards for their roles in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and Marriage Story respectively....
Feb 9, 2020 · “Parasite,” the South Korean thriller, won the awards for best picture, director, foreign language film and original screenplay at the 2020 Oscars. “And the Oscar goes to: ‘Parasite ...
