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South Korean film “Parasite” beat Hollywood biggies like “Joker”, “1917” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” to win the best picture Oscar on Sunday night that was given a musical touch by artistes such as Elton John and Eminem.<\/p>\n
“Parasite” is the first non-English to win the top honour.<\/p>\n
On Sunday night, the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony saw many more highs.<\/p>\n
The Oscars did not have an official host this year too, but it was well opened by Janelle Monae’s musical performance.<\/p>\n
Bong Joon Ho and Jin Won Han have won the best original screenplay Oscar for “Parasite”, becoming the first South Korean film to win an Academy Award.<\/p>\n
There have only been five other original screenplay winners for movies written in a foreign language — the last was Pedro Almodovar’s “Talk to Her” in 2002, reports variety.com.<\/p>\n
“Parasite” revolves around one family who cons their way into the employ of another, much wealthier, family. The film’s themes centre around wealth and entitlement, the disappearing middle class and moral relativism in the face of survival.<\/p>\n
“Parasite” is nominated in six Academy Award categories including director, production design, international feature film, film editing and best picture.<\/p>\n
It has been a favourite since it claimed the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes film festival, and earned $165 million at the worldwide box office thus far.<\/p>\n
In his acceptance speech on Sunday night, an emotional Bong said that “writing a script is always such a lonely process. We never write to represent our country. But this is very personal”.<\/p>\n
“I thank all the actors who are here with me today for bringing this film to life,” he added.<\/p>\n
The movie also won in the international feature film category, defeating other nominees from countries like France and Spain. It was earlier called best foreign language feature.<\/p>\n
“Happy to be first recipient under the new name (of the category),” Bong said. <\/p>\n
(IANS)<\/p>\n
Complete list of Oscar 2020 winners<\/strong><\/p>\n S. Korean film \u2018Parasite\u2019 beats Hollywood biggies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nBest performance by an actor in a leading role: Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker”<\/div>\nBest performance by an actress in a leading role: Renée Zellweger, “Judy”<\/div>\nBest picture: Kwak Sin Ae and Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite”<\/div>\nBest director: Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite’<\/div>\nBest performance by an actor in a supporting role: Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”<\/div>\nBest animated feature film: Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen and Jonas Rivera, “Toy Story 4”<\/div>\nBest animated short film: Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver, “Hair Love”<\/div>\nBest original screenplay: Bong Joo Ho and Han Jin Won, “Parasite”<\/div>\nBest adapted screenplay: Taika Waititi, “Jojo Rabbit”<\/div>\nBest live-action short film: Yves Piat and Damien Megherbi, “The Neighbor’s Window”<\/div>\nBest production design: Barbara Ling and Nancy Haigh, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”<\/div>\nBest costume design: Jacqueline Durran, “Little Women”<\/div>\nBest documentary feature: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert, “American Factory”<\/div>\nBest documentary short form: Carol Dysinger and Elena Andreicheva, “Learning to Skateboard in a \t\t\t\t\t\t Warzone (If You’re a Girl)”<\/div>\nBest performance by an actress in a supporting role: Laura Dern, “Marriage Story”<\/div>\nBest sound editing: Donald Sylvester, “Ford v Ferrari”<\/div>\nBest sound mixing: Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson, “1917”<\/div>\nBest cinematography: Roger Deakins, “1917”<\/div>\nBest film editing: Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland, “Ford v Ferrari”<\/div>\nBest visual effects: Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy, “1917”<\/div>\nBest makeup and hairstyling: Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker, “Bombshell”<\/div>\nBest international feature film: South Korea, “Parasite”<\/div>\nBest original score: Hildur Guðnadóttir, “Joker”<\/div>\nBest original song: Elton John and Bernie Taupin, “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” (FoxNews)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"