Winner
Oscar Best Motion Picture of the Year
Sin-ae Kwak
Bong Joon Ho
Best Achievement in Directing
Bong Joon Ho
Best Original Screenplay
Bong Joon Ho
Jin Won Han
Best International Feature Film
South Korea
Nominee
Oscar Best Achievement in Production Design
Ha-jun Lee
Won-woo Cho
Best Achievement in Film Editing
Jinmo Yang
Amazing. What an achievement.
I want to show my 11-year old Parasite so badly. It would floor him. But that scene on the couchā¦I think I have to wait.
lol the wife made me (aka was going to bail) turn off Parasite after 1/2 hour because āit didnāt have any likable charactersā yeah IDK. She has a point but it was pretty clear even then it was something else.
Did someone fall on stage or what was that about?
Thatās so good Iām going to tinfoil hat this one and say this person had it prepared in advance
My wife wanted See Itās a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, but I wasnāt in the mood for it that night. I convinced her to see Parasite instead. She thanked me afterward and she just thanked me again.
for sure
Sorry I went off on a rant there right when the best picture award dropped, you guys, but seriously, watch American Factory. Keep your eyes peeled for all that āclash of culturesā stuff between poor Midwesterners and poor Chinese factory workers that is supposed to be a real thing. Workers of the world need to unite, thatās what Iām all about right now.
yeah it is a must watch, we are just seeing the beginning of this sort of shit
I never once cared at all about the Oscars, but this is incredible to me. 2019 was a year full of absolutely amazing movies, but Parasite was the nuts. Iām gobsmacked that a Korean-language movie with a class warfare undertow won.
Holy shit, they really swept it, too.
Yeah I really liked Parasite, but was under the assumption it had practically no chance to win just because of that.
1917 and parasite were the onlY two with BP buzz. Once director went that way it was over. Happy for it.
Yeah, that was what I thought when Cuaron won last year.
Still pissed Green Book won BP.
I was with Bong Joon-Ho in assuming that because he won the premiere international award, it was a consolation prize so the other awards could go elsewhere. Iām so pleased that Parasite swept. That guy is going to be drunk eight sheets to the wind tonight.
Also I am now at 6 years in a row on incorrectly predicting best picture. Pretty sure I am a curse at this point. Generally do well except for the big prize. At least the last time I was correct was the last time I had some money on it.
The main big take away is right at the end (10:50) where he says he has two big projects in mind. One is in Korean, and one is in English.
All in on both
I passed your recs on to a friend who watches a ton of movies and apparently there are two movies called Escape Room from 2017 lol. More information?
To be fair, itās become much harder since they went to (up to) ten BP nominees per year. And several of the more recent ones came from left field. I think the main reason is too many choices diluting the voting and allowing dark horses to sneak in and grab it. I donāt recall what the markets were saying but I donāt know of a single person who predicted Green Book, for example.