Parasite: A Year in Cinema

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Bong Joon Ho accepts the Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for PARASITE

NEON celebrates ‘A Year in Cinema’ with Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite on the Anniversary of its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it became the first Korean film to win the coveted Palme d’Or. 

The film went on to festivals across the country, including Telluride, Toronto and the New York Film Festival.  NEON released the film in theaters in October 2019, where it has since amassed over $53 million at the domestic box office, breaking multiple records including highest per screen average of the year and highest per screen average for a foreign language film of all time.

Parasite became the first ever non-English language film to win the Screen Actors Guild ensemble award and the first to win the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards in its 90+ year history.

Here is a look back at the journey of Parasite from its beginnings at the Cannes Film Festival to its history-making Oscar win and more.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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