Published 11:20 IST, February 10th 2020

OSCAR 2020: 'Parasite' triumphs with Best Picture Award, bags three other top honours

PARASITE directed by Bong Joon Ho won big at the 92nd Academy Awards. Apart from the Best Picture Award, it also won three other top honours. Read below-

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South Korean film, PARASITE directed by Bong Joon Ho won big at 92nd Academy Awards held at Dolby atre in Los Angeles. While Bong Joon Ho won Oscars for best director, South Korean film was also houred with  three more awards namely- Best Film, Best International Film, and Best Original screenplay. 

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Director Bong Joon-Ho also earned Academy Award for best original screenplay, while filmmaker Taika Waititi bagged Oscar in adapted screenplay category. A visibly happy Bong went up on st and initially mand to say "Thank you, great hour," as audience cheered.

PARASITE makes history

PARASITE is also first film from a South Korean director to win Best Picture and first with a primarily Asian cast. film beat out Joker, Ford v Ferrari, Irishman, Marri Story, Little Women, 1917, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Jojo Rabbit in process.

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Only 11 or n-English speaking movies were previously minated for Best Picture, including Roma, Amour, Babel, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Roma was also first n-English speaking film from a streamer to earn top mination. Although it lost in that category, it did win in Best Foreign Film category, which has since been renamed to Best International Feature Film.

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movie, a dark class satire, emerged as a global sensation since its Palme D'Or win at Cannes Film Festival last May. Bong, best kwn for his films Memories of Murder, Swpiercer  Host, Mor, and Okja, has also co-written film with Han Jin Won and duo is also minated in best original screenplay category at Oscars.

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movie revolves around unemployed Kim Ki-Taek and his family who by impersonating mselves grab an opportunity to work with wealthy and affluent Park family. Soon ir lives get entangled, with funny and disastrous consequences. Song Kang-ho, who has worked with Bong in "Memories of Murder" and " Host", is playing Kim family patriarch in movie. ensemble cast also includes Lee Sun-Kyun, Jo Yeo-Jeong, Choi Woo-Shik, and Park Seo-Joon. 

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11:20 IST, February 10th 2020