Oscar 2020: all the details of the ceremony and the list of winners

The Oscar for Best Picture went to Parasite by South Korean director Bong Joon Ho. This is the first time in the history of the award that a non-English language film has won in the “best film” category, writes Air force.

“Parasite” won in three more categories: “best director”, “best original screenplay” and “best foreign film”.

The film was expected to win the Best International Film award. This award was previously called "Best Foreign Language Film". However, the film was recognized as the best without any discounts on the country and language, receiving the main Oscar, and this is an epoch-making decision for Hollywood.

Thus, “Parasite” received the most awards at the 92nd Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles - it won in four categories out of the six in which it was presented.

Bong Joon Ho's film has won awards at many international festivals. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, "Parasite" received the Palme d'Or.

The film was also awarded the British Academy Awards (BAFTA), winning in the categories “Best Original Screenplay” and “Best Non-English Language Film”. The South Korean film was also awarded the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film.

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Todd Philipps' Joker had the most nominations, 11. He was also nominated for the main Oscar prize along with The Irishman (Martin Scorsese), Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi), Little Women (Greta Gerwig), Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach), 1917 (Sam Mendes), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino) and Ford v Ferrari (James Mangold).

As a result, “Joker” won in two categories. Joaquin Phoenix, who played the main role in it, received the award for best actor, and the author of the soundtrack for “Joker,” Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, received the award for best music for the film.

All awards were distributed as follows:

Best movie: "Parasite" (Bong Joon Ho)

Best Directorсcheers: Bong Joon Ho (Parasite)

Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”)

#Oscars Moment: Joaquin Phoenix wins Best Actor for his work in @jokermovie. pic.twitter.com/M8ryZGKGHV

— The Academy (@TheAcademy) February 10, 2020

Best ActressStars: Renee Zellweger (“Judy”)

#Oscars Moment: Renee Zellweger wins Best Actress for her work in @JudyGarlandFilm. pic.twitter.com/ZkciWT0d2u

— The Academy (@TheAcademy) February 10, 2020

Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)

Best Supporting ActressStar: Laura Dern (“Marriage Story”)

The best original scriptStars: Bang Joon Ho and Han Jin Won (“Parasite”)

The best adapted scenarioStar: Taika Waititi (“Jojo the Crazy”)

Best animated feature film: Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley)

Joaquin Phoenix used his Oscars performance to remind audiences of the many serious issues facing humanity.

He managed to touch on a whole range of topics - from the problem of cruelty to animals to issues of racial discrimination. At the very beginning of his speech, he said that he intended to use the speech to stand up for those who are unable to defend themselves.

He began his short speech with the theme of ecology and animal rights. “We consider ourselves entitled to artificially inseminate a cow. And when she gives birth, we take her baby away from her, and then we take away her calf milk and put it in our coffee or cereal,” Joaquin Phoenix said.

According to the actor, people are afraid of change because they think that they will have to sacrifice something, although the only true choice is the path of love and compassion.

“I was a scoundrel. Sometimes I was cruel and difficult to work with. Many present here in this room today gave me a second chance. When we support each other, we are at our best,” said Joaquin Phoenix.

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Brad Pitt received his first acting Oscar at the ceremony for his role in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In 2014, the actor received an Oscar as a producer for the film 12 Years a Slave.

In his speech on the occasion of the award, Brad Pitt criticized the impeachment of Donald Trump in the Senate.

“I was told that I only have 45 seconds to speak here, but 45 seconds is significantly more time than what the Senate gave John Bolton this week,” Brad Pitt said, thus hinting at the Republican majority’s refusal to the US Senate to call former national security adviser John Bolton to testify.

“Maybe Quentin will make a movie about this, and in the end the adults will make the right decision,” Brad Pitt said sarcastically. He also did not forget to thank Quentin Tarantino for his work on the film.

“You are original, you are the only one. The film industry would dry up without you,” Pitt said, addressing Tarantino.

Renee Zellweger, having won the Best Actress nomination for her performance as Judy Garland in the biopic Judy, said that she dedicates the award to Judy Garland. According to Zellweger, Judy Garland did not receive due recognition in her time, so the film, in which she played the role of the famous American actress and singer, is a recognition of her legacy.

“Parasite” - social drama, black humor or horror?

At the center of the film is the Kim family - a husband and wife and an almost adult son and daughter, living in the most slum in the poorest district of Seoul.

They live in complete poverty: the Internet is stolen from a nearby cafe, drunkards constantly urinate at the window of their basement home. They don’t have the money to fight the insurmountable cockroaches, so they force disinfection sprayed on the street into their wretched home. Their only meager income comes from clumsily making cardboard pizza boxes.

Hope breaks through when the son, a failed university student, receives from his more successful peer an offer to work as an English tutor in the successful family of a wealthy businessman, living in a luxurious house in the richest district of the capital.

His ward is a high school girl, but there is also a tomboy in the Pak family. The only thing that can somehow calm him down is the desire to draw, and the impostor tutor recommends his sister as an art teacher and at the same time an art therapist.

We already had the opportunity to see her talents for fine arts when she deftly constructed a fake university diploma on her brother’s computer.

Young men and women are not recognized as wealthy owners in their kinship, and, taking advantage of the trust of employers and resorting to, to put it mildly, not very worthy methods of intrigue and deception, they gradually eliminate the driver and the housekeeper from the family for years.

The vacated seats, of course, are occupied by their own father and mother, instantly materializing as ideal candidates.

About the close family ties of the newly formed complete set of his servants, the host family remains in ignorance.

The result is a classic mirror structure of top and bottom, rich and poor, servants and served, well known from the world-famous Downton Abbey.

The service is lying, dodging, intriguing. Everything is done inventively, deftly, elegantly and hilariously ridiculously. It’s incredibly exciting to keep an eye on virtuoso, with skill and ability to match Ocean’s friends with multi-way fraudulent combinations.

But think about it! What is the purpose of the Kimov family sated with deceit and even crimes of cunning? Not in 150 million, as in Ocean, but only in the modest work of a tutor, driver, housekeeper.

It turns out, however, that the social structure of top-bottom built by the director is not limited to two floors. There is also a basement - the macabre bottom of life, gloomy and hopeless, and the Kims, in order to survive, have to keep the inhabitants of this bottom in much greater oppression than what life has driven them to.

“Parasite” is the 50-year-old director’s seventh feature film. His previous film Okja caused a scandal at Cannes in 2017.

She became a bone of contention between the Netflix manufacturing company and the organizing committee of the festival, which did not want to receive the film without the traditional movie screening.

With his new exciting and award-winning film Parasite, Bong Joon Ho has firmly established himself as one of the most interesting masters of modern cinema.

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