Oscars: Korean Film, ‘Parasite’ Wins Best Picture – The Complete Winners List

Deadline ^ | 02/09/2020 | Erik Pedersen

[SeekAndFind]

Here are the winners at the 92nd annual Academy Awards that handed out Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood:

Best Picture
Parasite
(Neon)
A Barunson E&A Production
Kwak Sin Ae and Bong Joon Ho, Producers

Actress in a Leading Role
Renée Zellweger
Judy (LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions)

Actor in a Leading Role
Joaquin Phoenix
Joker (Warner Bros.)

Directing
Parasite (Neon)
Bong Joon Ho

Original Song
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from Rocketman (Paramount)
Music by Elton John
Lyric by Bernie Taupin

Original Score
Joker (Warner Bros.)
Hildur Guðnadóttir

International Feature
Parasite
A Barunson E&A Production
South Korea

Makeup and Hairstyling
Bombshell (Lionsgate)
Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker

Visual Effects
1917 (Universal/Amblin Partners)
Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy

Film Editing
Ford v Ferrari (Walt Disney)
Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland

Cinematography
1917 (Universal/Amblin Partners)
Roger Deakins

Sound Mixing
1917 (Universal/Amblin Partners)
Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson

Sound Editing
Ford v Ferrari (Walt Disney)
Donald Sylvester

Actress in a Supporting Role
Laura Dern
Marriage Story (Netflix)

Documentary Short Subject
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) (A+E Networks)
A Grain Media Production
Carol Dysinger and Elena Andreicheva

Documentary Feature
American Factory (Netflix)
A Higher Ground Productions and Participant Media Production
Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert

Costume Design
Little Women
(Sony Pictures Releasing)
Jacqueline Durran

Production Design
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Production Design: Barbara Ling
Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

Live Action Short Film
The Neighbors’ Window
A Marshall Curry Production
Marshall Curry

Adapted Screenplay
Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight)
Screenplay by Taika Waititi

Original Screenplay
Parasite (Neon)
Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin Won
Story by Bong Joon Ho

Animated Short Film
Hair Love (Sony Pictures Releasing)
A Matthew A. Cherry Entertainment/Lion Forge Animation/Blue Key Entertainment Production
Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver

Animated Feature Film
Toy Story 4 (Disney)
Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen and Jonas Rivera

Actor in a Supporting Role
Brad Pitt
Once upon a Time in Hollywood (Sony Pictures Releasing)

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Parasite is not the best representation of Korean filmmaking but the one that crossed the ‘mass appeal’ threshold for Western audiences.

Taiwan has had some greats in the 90s, Japan boasted of the legendary Kurosawa, and China has some classics too but not recently as current government censorship stifles a lot of its creative potential. (See “Raise the Red Lantern” by Zhang Yimou. Just epic and gorgeous. From 1991.)

Objectively speaking South Korea is on a roll in terms of cinema and pure craftsmanship. And not every movie is centered around class. There are sensibilities in Asian and all foreign filmmaking that lend certain films more depth than your average Hollywood fare. And just a refreshing alternative perspective on the world! I’ve appreciated what the Polish have put out as of late, but the movies tend to be too ‘Arthouse’ and so do not end up appealing to mainstream audiences especially outside the country.

So if Parasite’s win simply means it will make it that much easier for international films to build up more curiosity among contemporary filmgoers for material outside Hollywood, then it is a good thing.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’m probably one of the few male “Fans of Judy” that ain’t a fag.

[Nothingburger]

I was rooting hard for “1917” — the first time since “Babe” in 1995 that I actually cared about a Best Picture nominee.

As for “Parasite” — the name made me think of a horror movie, no great stretch there.

Based on the Wikipedia article, I don’t think I would care for it, not one bit.

I suspect that Hollyweird now needs to suck up to Asians, or something.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

I suspect that Hollyweird now needs to suck up to Asians, or something.

China has a lot more financial hold on Hollywood investment than Korea. And yes it is erroneous to lump all Asians together especially in the realm of filmmaking. And if there is any place that should be making amazing films (because they have in the past) it actually is China but as I posted before, current political climate and censorship prevents creativity. Korean filmmaking is at a high point, and Parasite isn’t even the best representation. Just had a story that connected to Westerners.

Japan, China, Korea are each very different and they make up East Asia...Southeast Asia is a totally different place. Angelina Jolie made and directed a nice movie in Cambodian called ‘First They Killed My Father.’ It’s on Netflix.

[caww]

...”So if Parasite’s win simply means it will make it that much easier for international films to build up more curiosity among contemporary filmgoers for material outside Hollywood, then it is a good thing”....

Not a good thing when you recognize the Asian infiltration of Hollywood and our other Institutions are to use these to re-shape this nation’s identity and take us where all roads lead to China.

[Nothingburger]

I don’t think Dean-Charles Chapman qualifies as pudgy, based on the pictures I’ve seen. Stocky, maybe.

What may have thrown you off is that both the lead actors were wearing brown leather jerkins — thigh-length vests — over their tunics, with their web gear over that.

The jerkins were issued as cold-weather gear in both world wars and, I believe, at least through the 1950s.

They were popular with the troops, as they kept your chest warm while being less bulky than the issue overcoat.

I don’t believe that the US Army had any equivalent uniform item.

“1917” is set at the start of the Arras offensive in April of that year. It was quite cold on the Western front — I just listened to an interview with Nigel Farrage, who’s a serious Great War buff, and he said that there was actually still snow on the ground.

My biggest nit to pick about “1917” was the presence of turbaned Sikh infantrymen in one scene. Actually, the British high command transferred all of the Indian Corps’ infantry units to the Middle East at the end of 1915.

As you would expect, the Sikhs, Gurkhas et. al., fought hard and well at Neuve Chappelle, Festubert, Aubers Ridge, Loos and smaller actions in 1915.

[albie]

I saw 1917 and liked it very much. A must see on the big screen. Germans sure are bad shots though. As the lead character ran thru a burned out towns ruins, he was shot at by a dozen of them. Never hit once

[CondoleezzaProtege]

I have enjoyed Korean films and miniseries for good long while so I just see international recognition as organic and deserved. There has been a sort of Western cult following of such things.

Chinese billionaire tentacles in things like Hollywood is a separate matter.

And large swaths of Korean entertainment is actually banned in China for political reasons. (A 2017 US missile defense deal prompted it.)
https://www.vox.com/latest-news/2017/3/3/14795636/china-south-korea-pop-culture-kpop-attacks-thaad

[caww]

......”current political climate and censorship prevents creativity”.... (in China)

Why would China spur creativity in their country when they can and do actively send their people ,with those interests, to ours where they can use them to their advantage in spewing their soft propaganda before our audiences....which is part of their agenda for our country.

They’ve already got Hollywood singing their praises who are too stupid to recognize the political game in play..

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Most of the creative people would make films critical of their society and government and elites...

Their greatest films that I know of were stunning aesthetically but also intensely piercing critiques of the country.

And therefore banned.

[caww]

I've also viewed Korean films and found ‘Mr. Sunshine’, a series, very well done in acting, script, production and cinematography outstanding.....Far surpasses Parasite. However the Political nature of the Chinese in their interests in Hollywood should not be overlooked.

[Rummyfan]

Well, I’m glad Renee Zellweger won. A Texas beauty.

[LadyDoc]

Parasite is politically correct, with poor people taking advantage of rich people.

It's a dumb, boring movie with unsympathetic characters and an unbelievable plot that doesn't make sense.

Here in the Philippines, K-pop and K dramas rule (they are very good, and often dubbed in the local Tagalog language). Not just the films but the serials, both modern and historical dramas.

So why did this film get an award, whereas many other first rate films, e.g. the Admiral (about Admiral Yu’s victory over Japanese invaders 400 years ago) lose?

political correctness of course.

Actually the best K drama in recent years was Train to Buson: a zombie movie.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Well here’s to hoping for a the downfall of China’s Maoist political system and its globalist elites. But also for a resurgence in the art and refinement that once defined the imperial country.

[LadyDoc]

actually, some of the films up for awards were “old fashioned” type story telling.

Go see Ford Vs Ferrari, A beautiful day in the neighborhood, or Judy. All could have been made in the golden age of Hollywood: decent stories about people you care about, and without gratuitous sex scenes placed in to get an R rating.

And go see Richard Jewell too.

I haven’t seen Little Woman, so don’t know if they “ruined it”.

[LeonardFMason]

Yawn .......

The Oscars. How boring can you get?

[LeonardFMason]

Yawn .......

The Oscars. How boring can you get?

[stanne]

“...as pudgy, based on the pictures I’ve seen.”

Ok well then I ll go back and see it again with the understanding that yo don’t see him as fat and I am wrong in my view that no ww I soldier eating at his mothers table from the farm, not McDonald’s and processed food, gulping soda and beer sitting at the game console, surrounded by eight hard working farming hungry siblings competing for that food and after six weeks at boot camp, average weight loss 15 pounds, and marching around the French countryside for months on end lining up for sparse rations, I can, again, suspend disbelief and imagine that, because you find him not fat by today’s film standards, I am incorrect in my viewpoint, none of that matters.

I am wrong. Thank you so much for bringing that to my attention. Now I can go enjoy the movie in mind numbed ignorance.

And as for this:
“ What may have thrown you off is that both the lead actors were wearing brown leather jerkins — thigh-length vests — over their tunics, with their web gear over that.”

Yes, indeed, I can imagine I was born yesterday, that I have never seen anyone with layers on, such as the neighborhood boys playing hockey at Schmitz Pond in 21 degrees, or been outside in combat gear myself with fellow airmen, some quite pudgy by 1917 standards for tge reasons listed above

I am always so glad for someone to come along to remind me how ignorant and skewed my view is

I must go watch it again for that reason alone, realizing that his fat face is my inexperienced eye that he is actually as undernourished as they all would have been in that situation and it’s perfectly normal for him to appear fat to me but he is not so to you so I can erase my memory, experience, common sense and knowledge as a health care professional that seeing him bounce and waddle is normal to you

So I am incorrect

Thank you for this.

[stanne]

F v F was good I did see it.

This version of Little Women was an abomination with feminist themes never intended and unrealistic-and with flashbacks to four separate time periods with no explanations. Terrible

[nikos1121]

I didn’t waste my time either with th Oscars, but

Please, please, please see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood....great movie, and Ford vs Ferrari

And let me know....

You’ll want to buy Once Upon a Time for your libarary....gets better each time you watch