Why Bong Joon Ho Is Making an Awards Season Pit Stop in Rotterdam

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

After South Korean thriller Parasite bagged Best Picture and three additional Oscars at the 92nd Academy Awards, director Bong Joon-ho was ready for a night of drinking and merriment, as he expressed several times during his acceptance speeches. After all, he had just made history alongside the film's talented cast. Bong and company packed up after the event dissipated and headed out into LA's Koreatown for a late-night celebration at the restaurant Soban.

Bong Joon Ho's Parasite was absolutely unstoppable at the 92nd Academy Awards. The South Korean film won top honors at the 2020 Oscars, nabbing the coveted Best Picture in addition to its wins for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature.

Bong Joon Ho dominated at his first-ever Oscars ceremony, taking home three awards.Going into the 92nd annual Academy Awards, the South Korean filmmaker was up for best director, original screenplay and best picture — all three of which he won.While several nominees were up for multiple awards, including Scarlett Johansson and Cynthia Erivo, the Parasite director was the sole nominee taking home multiple awards Sunday night.Parasite received a total of six nominations for the 2020 Oscars,

The 92nd Academy Awards show ended on a high note. Parasite was undeniably the star of the awards show this year as it bagged four major awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (presented to Bong Joon Ho.) While the South Korean drama brought the Dolby Theatre down with their wins, Oscar 2020 played witness to some powerful speeches.

To say that it was a monumental night, in Oscars' history, would be an understatement! And, we have Bong Joon-ho to thank for that! With his brilliant film Parasite, the filmmaker made history at Oscars 2020 as not just the first South Korean movie but the first non-English language film to ever take home the coveted Oscar for Best Picture. Parasite also won the Academy Award for Directing for Bong, International Feature Film and Original Screenplay for Bong and Kwak Sin-ae.

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

Bong Joon-Ho is the man of the hour at the 2020 Oscars and for good reason.

After he thought he was done for the night, Parasite helmer Bong Joon Ho picked up the award for best director at the 2020 Oscars.Earlier in the night, Bong made history when he won the Oscar for best international feature film for Parasite Sunday night.

South Korea, home to some of the most distinctive cinema of the past two decades, is finally basking in Oscars glory.Bong Joon Ho's acclaimed thrillerParasitescored big early in the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night, winning in the best original screenplay category.

Bong Joon Ho made history on Sunday night, becoming the first South Korean filmmaker to win the best director Oscar for “Parasite.”

By Nancy Tartaglione

Parasite won best original screenplay at the 2020 Oscars on Sunday, picking up itsfirst win of the evening and making history by being the first South Korean film to win an Oscar in any category.In claiming the top prize, the South Korean satirebeat out Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns' 1917, Rian Johnson's Knives Out, Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.The category was presented by Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves.As Bong Joon Ho and Han

...and the Oscar goes to... Well, we'll find out within a few hours who takes home an Academy Award this year.

Since its premiere in 2019, at the Cannes Film Festival, Bong Joon Ho's film Parasite has been the talk of the town for all the right reasons. The movie, which explores the social themes of class inequality in South Korea, has become the first South Korean film to be nominated for Academy Awards’ best picture category.

By Matt Grobar