‘Parasite’s Bong Joon Ho Praises Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino Upon Accepting Oscar For Best Director

Parasite, Bong Joon Ho's incredible film about class and capitalism, took home the Academy Award for Best Picture (and several other awards) earlier this year. If Parasite was your first introduction to Bong's body of work, we recommend checking out some of his other films, starting with his English-language debut, the 2013 film Snowpiercer, starring Chris Evans and frequent Bong collaborator Song Kang-ho.

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 director Bong Joon Ho was touched to receive a message of support from Martin Scorsese in the wake of his historic Oscars victory.

'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

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.

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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.

It was a night of Oscar Speeches For Dummies and Oscar Speeches By Dummies.

Bong Joon Hotook home the award for best director at the 2020Oscars on Sunday night.The Parasitehelmer won over fellow nominees Quentin Tarantino for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Sam Mendes for 1917, Todd Phillips for Joker and Martin Scorsese for The Irishman."After winning best international feature, I thought I was done for the day and was ready to relax," Bong said upon receiving the award. "Thank you so much.

Bong Joon-Ho could have easily run out of speeches to give tonight, he still managed to bring the tears on his third trip to the stage. 

Bong Joon-Ho accepted the award for Best Director at the 2020 Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood Sunday, marking the first time a Korean film ever won in the category.