Oscars 92 ... Korean "parasite" makes history, Phoenix defends cows

Muhammad Musa

The South Korean movie "Parasite" came as a surprise and managed to make a mark in the history of art and cinema when it managed to achieve 4 major awards in the Academy Awards 2020, at the awards ceremony held by the American Academy of Film Arts and Sciences at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday evening.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the Award for Best Director by Director Bong Joon Ho and the Best Film Award, making it the first foreign movie in history to win an Academy Award for Best Film, bypassing films such as "1917" and "Irish". Joker, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Film director and author Bong Joon Ho has won 4 Oscars at once as he is the author, director and producer of the film, achieving in one year 4 Oscars.

The director, at the time he was awarded the Best Director award, expressed his great respect to the able director Martin Scorsese, who was nominated for the award for his "Irish" film, stressing that he was studying his films and it was a great honor for him to run with him in one year for the Best Director Award, and he thanked Sam Mendes, director of the film 1917 and Quentin Tarantino, director of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", would like Philips to direct the movie "The Joker".

The film examines the chasm between rich and poor in modern Seoul, and Kwak Sen-i, who produced "Parasitic" with Bong Joon Ho, accepts Oscar for the best picture, said: "I feel it is a very appropriate moment in history to speak now. No film from Korea has been nominated." Southern by for the first Hollywood Award. "

Absentee Review
The Oscars began its 92nd concert with a lyric review of singer and actress Janella Monay, a show that the audience interacted with, especially since the review contained expressive scenes from the most important films nominated for the award such as the Joker and the Irish, and Munay expressed in the review the absence of female directors from this year’s nominations, and from Films that were not nominated for the award, despite their merit, according to critics.

Scorsese comes out empty-handed
As for the able director Martin Scorsese and his movie "The Irish", they left the ceremony empty-handed despite the film nominating nine prizes, but he did not win any prize from them despite his expectations of winning several prizes.

However, the exit of the film, also empty-handed from the Golden Globe Awards, paved the way for his Oscar exit with the same result, with his hero Robert De Niro not nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role, despite the nomination of his colleagues Al Pacino and Joe Bische for Best Supporting Actor Award.

The 1917 frustration
Despite receiving the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award, director Sam Mendes, the director of the war movie "1917", was unable to win the award for Best Director or Best Film. The film was awarded with only three awards, the Academy Awards: Best Photography. The award was received by Director of Photography Roger Dickens, Best Mix and Best Visual Effects

Netflix punishment
The Netflix network, the internet broadcasting giant, was the largest share of nominations among companies this year, as the films produced under its umbrella won 24 nominations, but it did not come out with only two awards, the Oscar Award for the best feature documentary film "American Factory", and an award Best Supporting Actress, Laura Derne, for her role in the movie "Marriage Story."

Cow Wakin Phoenix
Although American actor Wakeen Phoenix won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in the movie "The Joker", his speech did not talk about the award he receives for the first time in his life despite several previous nominations, but he spoke about animal rights and the cruelty of humans who steal milk. Cows, they steal their youngsters despite their unmistakable screams.

Rene Zellweger also won the award for Best Actress for "Judy" for her portrayal of the late American singer Judy Garland. This is the second Oscar won by Zellweger (50 years) out of four nominations.

After 30 years in the movie industry, American star Brad Pitt, 56, managed to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Quentin Tarantino's film "Once Upon a Time". Brad Pitt has already won an Academy Award but as a producer For the movie "12 Years of Slavery."

Oscar's mother is the best adapted scenario, it was the New Zealand director and writer Taeka Wattetti for his movie "Jojo Rabbit", while "Ford Vs. Ferrari" won the Academy Award for Best Editing, while "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" earned the Oscar the best design production and decoration, while "Little Women" won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and "Bombshell" managed to win the Academy Award for Best Makeup.

The musical composer Helder Goodenter won the Academy Award for best soundtrack for the movie "The Joker", while the song "I will love me again" from "Roketman" by Sir Elton John and Bernie Tobin won the Academy Award for the best song, and went for the best sound adaptation for the movie "Ford faces Ferrari" ".

As expected for many, the movie "Toy Story 4" won the best Oscar cartoon, and "Love Poetry" won the Oscar for Best Short Cartoon, while "Neighbor's Nets" won the Oscar as the best short feature film.

Honor the deceased
Senior director Stephen Spielberg presented this year honoring the artists who left our world, as Grammy Award-winning American singer Billy Ilish sang the song honoring the departed as they were led by basketball player Kobe Bryant, who died and his daughter in a plane accident a few weeks ago, and he won the Academy Award in 2018 As the producer of the best cartoon short movie, "My Basketball."