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- PARASITE Tops 14th Asian Film Awards with 4 Prizes
- After conquering the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards, BONG Joon-ho’s hit sensation PARASITE (2019) has come home to claim four prizes at the 14th Asian Film Awards, which took place in Busan this year for the first time.PARASITE(2019)won Best Film, Best Screenplay (BONG Joon-hoand HAN Ji...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 05, 2020
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- CJ Group’s Miky LEE Appointed Vice Chair of Academy Museum
- Executive Behind Oscar Winner PARASITE Joins AMPAS Venture Miky LEE (aka LEE Mie-kyung), the vice chairwoman of the CJ Group conglomerate which includes the Parasite (2019) studio CJ ENM, has been appointed as vice chair of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which is scheduled to open on April ...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 05, 2020
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- PARASITE Leads Asian Film Awards with 10 Nominations
- The Asian Film Awards are returning for their 14th edition this year, which will take place for the first time in Busan, South Korea, after the previous 13 editions took place in either Hong Kong or Macao. Leading the nominations scorecard is BONG Joon-ho’s global smash Parasite (2019), which was re...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 25, 2020
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- AMPAS Invites 19 New Korean Members
- Last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which stages the Academy Awards annually, revealed a list of 819 new film professionals from 68 countries invited to join its ranks this year. Among the new Academy members, should they accept their invitations, were a record 19 Kor...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 10, 2020
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- PARASITE Tops Grand Bell and BaekSang Arts Awards
- The 56th editions of both the Grand Bell Film Awards and the BaekSang Arts Awards were held in quick succession earlier this month, on the 3rd and 5th, both without an audience for the first time, owing to public health concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic. BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019) won the Be...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 16, 2020
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- PARASITE Sweeps Hollywood Industry Guild Awards
- As the awards season reaches its climax, BONG Joon-ho’s acclaimed Palme d’Or winner Parasite has been stacking win after win at Hollywood’s major industry guild award ceremonies. The Korean smash hit earned the Best Ensemble Award from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Best Original Screenplay from the...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 04, 2020
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- PARASITE and BONG Joon-ho Nominated by PGA, DGA and WGA
- In the week leading up the Academy Awards nominations, BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite received a flurry of major nominations with industry groups in Hollywood, all of which represented firsts for Korean films. The acclaimed film was nominated for top prizes by the Producers Guild of America (PGA), the Dire...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 29, 2020
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- PARASITE Receives Historic 6 Nominations from Academy Awards
- Several historic firsts for Korean cinema were recorded early in the morning of Monday, January 13 in Los Angeles, as two Korean films landed the first ever Academy Awards nominations for the country to the upcoming 92nd edition of the ceremony. BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite was selected in six categories...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 17, 2020
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- PARASITE Crowned Best Foreign Language Film at Golden Globes
- BONG Joon-ho has made history by becoming the first Korean filmmaker to earn a prize at the Golden Globe Awards, which held their 77th ceremony in Beverly Hills on Sunday, January 5. The acclaimed director received the Best Foreign Language Film Award for his new film Parasite, a global box office h...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 07, 2020
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- PARASITE Makes A Clean Sweep at Film Critics Awards Across North America
- The end-of-year awards season is in full swing in America as a dozen film critics groups and several major industry events have started to reveal their nominations and awards. BONG Joon-ho’s PARASITE, which is being distributed in North America by NEON, has found itself right in the middle of the ac...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 23, 2019