South Korean satire Parasite has won the best international film Oscar at the 92nd Academy Awards, the first Korean film to do so.
Alluding to the category’s change of name – from best foreign-language film to best international film – Bong said: “I applaud and support the new direction this change symbolises.”
Parasite won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in May 2019, and since then has been a major presence on the awards circuit, winning a string of prizes including the Bafta and Golden Globe for best film not in the English language.
Directed by Bong Joon-ho, Parasite is a comedy-thriller about a hard-up family who infiltrate the lives of a much richer one.