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South Korea selects ‘Parasite’ for International Feature Film Oscar submission

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As expected, South Korea has selected the Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Parasite from director Bong Joon-ho as its submission for the International Feature Film (formerly Foreign Language Film) Oscar race.

This is the second time a Bon Joon-ho has been the country’s choice with the director’s 2009 effort Mother being his first. The east Asian country has submitted 30 times since 1962, all unsuccessfully. It only made the Oscar shortlist just last year with Lee Chang-dong’s Burning.

Review: Joon-ho Bong’s ‘Parasite’ is breathtaking and heartbreaking

Parasite stars  Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik and Park So-dam and revolves around the unemployed Ki-taek family, who take a peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Neon picked up Parasite for US distribution and the film will hit a host of fall festivals, including Telluride and Toronto, before landing in theaters on October 11.

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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