{"id":12948,"date":"2020-02-10T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12948"},"modified":"2020-02-10T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:14:00","slug":"south-koreas-parasite-makes-history-in-oscar-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12948","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s Parasite makes history in OSCAR 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-bodyintroduction\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 21.0pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #404040;\">South Korean film Parasite has been named best picture at this year&#8217;s Oscars, becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 13.5pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #404040;\">Parasite won four awards in total, while Sir Sam Mendes&#8217;s 1917 took three. Bong Joon-ho beat Sir Sam to the prize for best director, and also took the best original screenplay award. The film is a vicious social satire about two families from very different classes &#8211; one who live in poverty in a semi-basement, and another rich family residing in a large home. It has now managed what no other subtitled film has done in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards and won best picture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 13.5pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #404040;\">Producer Kwak Sin-ae, who collected the trophy, said: I&#8217;m speechless. We never imagined this to happen. I feel like a very opportune moment in history is happening right now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean film Parasite has been named best picture at this year&#8217;s Oscars, becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize. Parasite won four awards in total, while Sir Sam Mendes&#8217;s 1917 took three. Bong Joon-ho beat Sir Sam to the prize for best director, and also took the best original screenplay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12950,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions\/12950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}