[Breaking News] 'Gisaengchung' Wins Two Academy Awards for International Feature Film and Original Screenplay

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Jong-gil] Director Bong Joon-ho's film Parasite became the first Korean movie to win two Academy (Oscar) trophies. On the 9th (local time), at the 92nd Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA, Parasite won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, beating out The Painted Bird (Poland), Pain and Glory (Spain), Les Mis?rables (France), and Honeyland (North Macedonia). It was selected as the best feature film made outside the United States.

Parasite is the first Korean film to be nominated for and win the Oscar for Best International Feature Film. Including special and honorary awards given from 1947 to 1955, it is the eighth Asian film to win. Previous winners include Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1951, Japan), Daisuke Kinugasa’s Gate of Hell (1954, Japan), Hiroshi Inagaki’s Miyamoto Musashi (1955, Japan), Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001, Taiwan), Yojiro Takita’s Departures (2009, Japan), and Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation (2012) and The Salesman (2017, both Iran).

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Director Bong and writer Han Jin-won also won the Best Original Screenplay award, beating directors such as Ryan Johnson of Knives Out, Noah Baumbach of Marriage Story, Sam Mendes of 1917, and Quentin Tarantino of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. This marks the first time an East Asian has won this award. It is also the first time in 17 years since Pedro Almod?var’s Talk to Her (2002) that a foreign-language film has won this category.

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