Bong Joon-ho won best director and best original screenplay as well as best picture
South Korean film Parasite has been named best picture at this year's Oscars, becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize.
Renee Zellweger won best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy. Joaquin Phoenix was named best actor for Joker.
Brad Pitt and Laura Dern scooped the supporting acting awards for their roles in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and Marriage Story respectively.
Parasite won four awards in total, while Sir Sam Mendes's 1917 took three.
The World War One epic had been the favourite to win best picture, but its awards all came in the technical categories.
Parasite in paradise
The Parasite team celebrating their wins
Parasite's Bong Joon-ho beat Sir Sam to the prize for best director, and also took the best original screenplay award.
The film is a vicious social satire about two families from different classes in Seoul - one who live in poverty in a semi-basement, and another rich family residing in a large home.
It has now managed what no other subtitled film has done in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards and won best picture.
"I feel like I'll wake up to find it's all a dream. It all feels very surreal," Bong said.
Producer Kwak Sin-ae, who collected the trophy, said: "I'm speechless. We never imagined this to happen. I feel like a very opportune moment in history is happening right now."
There were boos when organisers tried to cut short the best picture acceptance speech by turning the stage lights off - leading the lights to be turned back on, allowing the celebrations to continue.
Full story at https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51440241
Host from BlazeTV Writes Racist, and Most Idiotic, Tweet of the Year About Parasite Oscars
From the words of our own president to the comment section on YouTube, it seems fair to say that to live in the modern era is to read enough idiotic crap to last a lifetime. But the stupidest, most pointlessly racist and unwarranted vitriolic tweet of the year — so far — comes courtesy of Jon Miller, a conservative host who appears regularly on the Glenn Beck streaming network BlazeTV.
Miller seems to be mirroring the get-famous-fast approach of colleague Tomi Lahren — a legally blonde and endlessly racist walking example of privilege — by making a worthless complaint in order to make a name for himself.
While there were plenty of things to discuss at this year’s Oscars ceremony, which aired Sunday night, Miller chose the most minute of all non-issues: expressing his disapproval of a Korean director accepting an award by giving a speech in his native Korean, with a translator relaying his words in English.
Parasite, the South Korean thriller, took home various Academy Awards, including a historic double win for Best International Film (previously Best Foreign Language Film) and Best Motion Picture. Along with Best Director for Bong Joon-Ho and Best Original Screenplay. And Miller was ready to call 911 to report a Korean accepting an award onstage at the Oscars.
On Sunday evening, Jon Miller tweeted the following from his account:
“A man named Bong Joon Ho wins #Oscar for best original screenplay over Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and 1917.
Acceptance speech was: “GREAT HONOR. THANK YOU.”
Then he proceeds to give the rest of his speech in Korean.
These people are the destruction of America.”
Somehow, it seemed to really irk Miller that a man from a foreign land didn’t speak his same language. It’s racist enough to tell people speaking a foreign language to speak English in America at any time, but Miller also seems to begrudge the fact that a man from a foreign country didn’t learn English in the little time in between being invited to come to an award show and the time he won the award.
Many of us could physically feel our IQs dropping just by reading these words: Not only was the statement incomprehensibly racist, but also fascinating in its endless display of stupidity.
Of all the convoluted logic in the world, there is — at least some— semblance of internal logic left, while Miller is following the rules of a David Lynch film. Except its script is also racist.
The tweet got a number of irate responses, including some from celebrities like John Legend, who said: “Do they pay you for these dumb takes or is this something you do for fun?”
We reached out to a BlazeTV producer for comment but haven't heard back.
More at https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/blazetv-host-jon-miller-tweets-a-ridiculous-and-racist-complaint-against-parasite-director-11868207
GXGX it was a really damn good movie, the director deserved to win big time!
LOL it's a good day to look Asian all right.