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"Of course, I always have the desire to make films that are unlike anything that exists on Earth. It's inevitable that they carry traces of me," Bong Joon-ho shared candidly in a throwback interview which features in the tribute montage [Parasite - A year of cinema]  celebrating one year since Parasite debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and made major buzz by winning the prestigious Palme D'Or trophy.

Korean director Bong Joon-ho became Hollywood’s darling as his movie “Parasite” swept the Oscars this year. Now, one of his earlier works is hitting the small screen as a TV show.

#BongHive, assemble -- and head on over to Hulu tomorrow! The platform has secured exclusive rights to stream beginning April 8.

Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning drama “Parasite” has broken records at the U.K. box office, becoming the country’s highest-grossing foreign-language film of all time.

When Oscars 2020 rolled in, we all were in for a pleasant shock when Bong Joon-ho did the unthinkable! His ambitious project Parasite swept the 92nd Academy Awards with four Oscars, including Best Picture, which was a first for a non-English film. Parasite also took home the prize for International Feature Film, Best Directing for Bong and Best Original Screenplay for Bong and Han Jin-won.

#BongHive, assemble -- and head on over to Hulu in five short weeks. The platform has secured exclusive rights to stream beginning April 8.

#BongHive, assemble -- and head on over to Hulu in five short weeks, as the platform has secured exclusive streaming rights to starting April 8.

Accepting his award for original screenplay at this year’s Oscars, director Bong Joon Ho triumphantly declared,  “This is a very first Oscar to South Korea.” Little did he know that the second, third and fourth were swiftly coming his way on a night that saw “Parasite” make history.

The movie studio behind — the South Korean film that made history earlier this month as the first-ever international movie to win the Best Picture Oscar — has responded to President Donald Trump's digs during a campaign rally in Colorado.

Oscars 2020 was definitely a memorable night for Team Parasite, especially for the captain of the ship, Bong Joon-ho, as his film made Oscars history by being the first non-English language movie to win the prestigious Best Picture Academy Award. Furthermore, Parasite took home the Oscar for International Feature Film, Directing for Bong and Original Screenplay for Bong and Kwak Sin-ae.

Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” is reaping box office riches after its groundbreaking Oscar best picture win.

The world is Bong Joon Ho’s oyster following last Sunday’s Oscar triumph.

Racy lesbian sex scenes put the French movie “Blue Is the Warmest Color” on the map back in 2013. The director of a new French film, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” would like you to know the “Blue” eroticism was mostly nonsense.

“Parasite” made history at the 92nd Oscars by becoming the first non-English language film to win Hollywood’s biggest prize: best picture.

It was Bong Joon-ho's night as his masterpiece Parasite dominated at the Oscars 2020 and picked up not one or two, but four Academy Awards. Parasite won the Oscar for Best Picture, the Academy Award for Directing for Bong, International Feature Film and Original Screenplay for Bong and Kwak Sin-ae. The reason why the Best Picture win, in particular, is so monumental is that it's the first South Korean and more significantly non-English language film to be honoured with the prestigious award.

Neon is doubling the North American run of best picture Oscar winner “Parasite” to as many as 2,000 locations.

“Parasite” made history as the first foreign language film to ever win the Academy Award for best picture, in addition to taking home three other awards for best director, best international feature film and best original screenplay. It earned South Korea its first Oscar nominations and wins ever.

Tom Hanks showed once again how to be a good neighbor.

The fire marshal shut down the “Parasite” party at Soho House before the Oscars were even over.

After weeks of awards campaigning and hundreds of interviews, “Parasite” began Sunday as a successful and well-appreciated movie. Yet its Academy Awards wins for best picture and for Bong Joon-ho as best director were shocks that thrilled the Asian movie industry.

Bong Joon-ho is having a heck of a night. 

In a neck-and-neck race between and, the latter ultimately came out on top, taking home the Oscar for Best Picture during Sunday's 92nd annual Academy Awards.

The 2020 awards season darling,, made Oscars history on Sunday, with major wins and surprising upsets for director Bong Joon-ho's dark comedy-thriller — which ultimately won four of its six nominations.

Bong Joon Ho’s acclaimed South Korean thriller “Parasite” became the first foreign-language film to win best picture at the Oscars, and the historic win had Hollywood heavyweights like Ava DuVernay, Sandra Oh and Priyanka Chopra cheering.

Just as the 92nd annual Academy Awards were starting to feel utterly predictable, Bong Joon Ho was announced as best director over perceived frontrunner Sam Mendes. A few minutes later, “Parasite” made history by becoming the first foreign-language film to ever win best picture. It not only defied expectation, it triumphed after the PGA Award went to “1917.”

Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” won the best international film prize at the 92nd annual Academy Awards on Sunday night, making history as the first Korean film to do so.

Bong Joon Ho and Jin Won Han have won the best original screenplay Oscar for “Parasite” — becoming not only the first South Korean film to win an Oscar, but a relatively rare win for a foreign language screenplay.

Change sounds like this: South Korean director Bong Joon Ho accepted his foreign film award for “Parasite” at the Golden Globes, saying: “Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.”

Haunted houses are always full of hidden passageways, secret rooms and a story or two about someone who used to live there who disappeared or died under mysterious circumstances. The Park house in “Parasite” is no exception to that rule.

The six Academy Award nominations for Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” — a film with, in the director’s words, the “inch-tall barrier of subtitles” to overcome — make the ferociously entertaining satire the first-ever Oscar-nominated Korean feature. The first-ever Korean short film nomination happened approximately two minutes earlier, when Yi Seung-jun’s “In the Absence” got a documentary short nod. Nothing for decades then seven in one morning? Korea is having a moment.

The film world has been sending itself into a frenzy for Bong Joon-ho‘s latest movie, Parasite. This love has seen it become an awards season darling, with nominations and wins across the board. Having watched the film, I can confirm it is indeed just as good, if not better than everyone is saying. The tricky thing though is that in order to get the absolute best experience, you should go in knowing as little about it as possible. This makes writing the following review exceptionally difficult.

SAG Awards 2020 has come and gone and while there were some obvious wins like Joaquin Phoenix for Joker and Renée Zellweger for Judy, the biggest surprise of the night were the winners of Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The nominations for the category included The Irishman, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Bombshell, Jojo Rabbit and Parasite.

“Parasite” made history on Friday night when it became the first Foreign Language film to win the top prize at the Ace Eddie Awards. Editor Jinmo Yang was recognized for his work on Bong Joon Ho’s drama. Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy), went to”Jojo Rabbit editor, Tom Eagles won.

Bong Joon-ho is on cloud nine as his extraordinary feature film Parasite has earned South Korea its first-ever nominations at Oscars 2020. Besides Best Picture and Best Director noms for Bong, Parasite is also nominated for Best International Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing and Best Production Design.

South Korean film-maker Bong Joon-ho has been announced as the first guest editor of Sight & Sound magazine.

Mainstream Korean media gave pride of place to Monday’s unprecedented haul of six Oscar nominations for Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite.” The dark satire was nominated in categories including best international feature film, best screenplay and best picture.