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Oscars 2020: 'Parasite' wins Best Original Screenplay award
Updated On: 10 February, 2020 08:13 AM IST | ANI | PTI
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Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won accept the Writing - Original Screenplay - award for 'Parasite' onstage during the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. Pic/AFP
In a first for South Korea, master-director Bong Joon Ho earned the Academy Award for best original screenplay for his genre-defying "Parasite", while filmmaker Taika Waititi bagged the Oscar in the adapted screenplay category. A visibly happy Bong went up on the stage and initially managed to say "Thank you, great honour," as the audience cheered and clapped on. The 50-year-old director, who has been the toast of this awards season surpassing the hurdle of subtitles that come along a non-English film, said writing scripts was a "lonely" process.
"Writing scripts is always such a lonely process. We never write to represent our countries. This is the very first Oscar to South Korea. "I thank my wife for always being an inspiration, thank all the actors who are here with me today for bringing this film to life," Bong said in his acceptance speech, through his translator Sharon Choi. As co-writer Han Jin-won thanked his parents for their support and storytellers at Chumro, Bong couldn't help staring lovingly at the Oscar trophy and smiling.
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