'Parasite' Aims for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in France as Well

Director Bong Joon-ho's Parasite has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the C?sar Awards, often referred to as the French equivalent of the Academy Awards. The Acad?mie des Arts et Techniques du Cin?ma, which hosts the ceremony, announced the nominees for the 45th C?sar Awards on the 29th (local time).

Parasite was nominated alongside five other films for Best Foreign Language Film, including Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (USA), Pedro Almod?var's Pain and Glory (Spain), Todd Phillips' Joker (USA), and Marco Bellocchio's The Traitor (Italy).

Last year's trophy was awarded to Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters (Japan), which also won the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. If Parasite wins the C?sar Award for Best Foreign Language Film, it will mark two consecutive years that an Asian director's work has swept the top honors and foreign language film awards at France's two major film festivals, Cannes and the C?sar Awards.

Parasite is also nominated in six categories at the 92nd Academy Awards in the United States, including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Editing, Production Design, and International Feature Film. This year's C?sar Awards ceremony will be held on the 28th of next month at the Salle Pleyel in central Paris.

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