First Time a Foreign Language Movie Takes the Big Prize as Bong Joong Ho’s Parasite Wins Best Picture at the 2020 Oscar

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• Great movie. But honestly i have seen many great movies from asia which never got their due. I hope this wins open doors for others.

  • Yes.. One of my faves is Japan's "Shoplifters" which won Palme d'Or at Cannes. The movie is so much better than "The Green Book" that netted the big prize.

    It's the films like Shoplifters and Roma that paved the way for "Parasite" to get Hollywood to finally recognized international movies that some are far superior than theirs. Last year was upsetting and thankfully, the Academy did the right thing this year.

    Congrats to Parasite and SK.

    • Shoplifters is a great movie. Why does it not get into Hollywood last year? Just curious. I like Parasite too.

    • Roma paid the price of being Netflix distributed. Cinema people aren't overly fond of streamers.

    • @candycane Shoplifters was nominated for best foreign language film but lost to Roma.

• So happy for my Korean movie/ drama fanatic heart. This is history. Love to see my coffee prince Ajjussi and one of the prince from Rooftop prince on the stage of Oscar. Huge congratulation

  • The general from Crash Landing and the mother from Camelia too!

    • Also from CLOY - Dani's mom :)

  • To think that a day would come when I see actors I've been watching for so long on the Oscar stage....what a feeling!

• Yay! They got best picture in the mainstream award and not a "Foreign" award. So many Asian films get so overlooked.
  I am so glad the actors/actresses got to attend the OSCARS. They should, as they work so hard and let's hope it is not a once in a lifetime but many more to come from Asian Films.

• Looks like they were having a great time! ? And well deserved!???

• I am so happy for my fav Korean director..Bong Joon Ho. Tho' Parasite is brilliant, a masterpiece ....one of his earliest film Memories of Murder remains my fav'. I am looking forward to his next one. I hope he doesn't go Hollywood.
  So happy about Asian representation in the US where for too long our men have been emasculated and women fetishsized.

• My cousin, dad and i thought it was a very normal movie... LOL!

  • A normal movie can be very well made as well. It has great acting cinematography script and directing. Same with marriage syory. Movies dont have to be always about women falling in love with see creature and having sx. That is weird to me when such movies win oscar

    • I think fantasy movies can be wonderful candidates, something like Pan's Labyrinth (by the same director as the sea creature movie) is a much better movie than some Oscar winners. But yeah, they often don't reward the director's actual best work. And I agree that 'ordinary' stories can also be told well and made into great films.

• I woke up in the middle of the night, checked my phone for Oscar results.
  Read blurringly the words "Parasite" more than once and
  "YESSSSSS!"'ed with the arm pump and everything.
  Then I cried.

  Go BJH!!!! GO CHUNGMURO!

• So happy for them. Good job, guys!

• Yessssssss!

  I'm so happy, they absolutely deserved it.

• AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING!!!! I am proud beyond words!