“Parasite” writer-director Bong Joon-Ho is still recovering from award season.
21.02.2020 - 17:56 / hollywood.com
Parasite director Bong Joon Ho was touched to receive a message of support from Martin Scorsese in the wake of his historic Oscars victory.
The filmmaker took home four top awards at the prestigious Hollywood ceremony earlier this month (February 2020), with the thriller becoming the first non-English language project to claim the Best Picture prize, as well as the first to triumph in both the International Feature Film and Best Picture categories.
During a press conference back home in his
“Parasite” writer-director Bong Joon-Ho is still recovering from award season.
Before the Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and Carpool Karaoke with James Corden takes over social media, BTS sat down for a press conference and spilled the beans about their recent album. RM, Jimin, Jin, J-Hope, Jungkook, V and Suga sat down to discuss the inspirations behind the tracks on Map of the Soul: 7. While they revealed the insights into the album, they also addressed several other recent developments, including Bong Joon Ho's statement about the band at the Golden Globe Awards 2020.
'Parasite' picked up four Academy Awards at this month's prize-giving ceremony
As Bong Joon-ho accepted the third Oscar for the night for his masterpiece of a film, Parasite, the South Korean filmmaker made sure to give a major shoutout to his fellow nominees - Martin Scorsese for The Irishman, Quentin Tarantino for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Sam Mendes for 1917 and Todd Phillips for Joker.
Oscar-winning Parasitedirector Bong Joon Ho said Wednesday the film's "biggest pleasure and the most significant meaning" to him is that it succeeded even though the audiences might feel uncomfortable with his explicit description of bitter wealth disparity in modern society.Bong's dark comic thriller about two families on the opposite ends of South Korea's social spectrum is a history-making film.
Gangsters out, cowboys in
By Tom Grater
*Doo wop music plays*
Oscars 2020 was THE night for Mr. Bong Joon-ho, whose film Parasite made Oscars history and took up four wins.
Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho cannot believe he beat his idol Martin Scorsese to the Best Director Oscar.
Famed and award winning film director, Bong Joon-ho, has revealed that he would invite Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne to his dream dinner party.
By Anthony D'Alessandro
Basically, when he went up to accept his award, he spoke about all of his fellow nominees in the directing category: Todd Phillips, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Sam Mendes. He spoke about all of them individually, giving them really sweet compliments via his translator. He gushed about all of them, and it was damn adorable.