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# Parasite’s Historic Wins at the 92nd Academy Awards
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/bonghive/
- Published: 2020-02-10T17:27:13.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:07:18.000Z
- Description: Parasite took home four Oscars on Sunday. Congrats to the #BongHive for their triumph.
- Author: Dan Schindel
- Tags: In Brief, Academy Awards, Bong Joon-ho, South Korea, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2020/02/parasite-oscars.jpg)

The cast and crew of Parasite accepting the Oscar for Best Picture (courtesy ABC/Arturo Holmes)

In a [surprising alignment](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/movies/parasite-movie-oscars-best-picture.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have [agreed with Hyperallergic contributors’ assessment](https://hyperallergic.com/best-of-2019-our-top-15-feature-films/) that the best film of 2019 is Bong Joon-ho’s [*Parasite*](https://hyperallergic.com/parasite-review-bong-joon-ho/)*.* At last night’s Academy Awards ceremony, the film brought in four wins — for Best Original Screenplay, Best International Film, Best Director, and Best Picture. We are obviously ecstatic that [one of our favorite films of the decade](https://hyperallergic.com/best-films-of-the-2010s/) has earned such mainstream success and acclaim. It’s a historic moment for several reasons:

- Obviously, this is the first South Korean film to win Best International Feature (formerly Best Foreign Language Film).
- This is the first film to win both Best International Feature and Best Picture.
- And of course, this is the first non-English-language film ever to win Best Picture.
- This is also the first non-English-language film to win a screenplay Oscar since 2002’s *Talk to Her.* Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won are the first East Asian people to win a screenwriting Oscar.
- Bong Joon-ho has tied with Walt Disney for winning the most Oscars in a single year. (Disney similarly won four at the 1954 ceremony, for four separate films he produced.)
- Less distinct but still interesting: this is only the third winner of the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or to go on to win Best Picture, after 1946’s *The Lost Weekend* and 1955’s *Marty.*

Congrats to cinephiles everywhere for the validation. Congrats to the [#BongHive](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/02/parasite-wga-award-bong-joon-ho?ref=hyperallergic.com) for their triumph. Congrats to the Oscars for getting things right for once. And of course, congrats to Eminem [for getting to perform “Lose Yourself” again](https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/09/entertainment/eminem-oscar-performance-2020/index.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), for some reason.