Discover the records held by Parasite, broadcast this evening on Arte, Oscar for Best Film and Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival 2019.
When presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite caused a sensation and won the precious Palme d’or for the 72nd edition, the ultimate reward for this major cinematic event. But this award, those that followed it and the “life” of the film in theaters enabled it to set a number of records.
First, the film is part of the very select club to have won a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar for Best Film. It shares this rare honor with two classic Hollywood age features: The Poison released in 1945 and Marty, starring Ernest Borgnine, released in 1955.
Then, it is the first film from Korea to have been awarded a Palme d’Or and can boast of having been the Palme d’or for having brought in the most admissions in France since 2004 and the release of Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore with 2.36 million tickets sold.
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It is also the first foreign-language film to win the Oscar for Best Picture and Best International Film (formerly called the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) and the only film since The Departed (2006) to win the ‘Oscar for Best Picture without having obtained a nomination for Best Cinematography.
Finally, grossing £11.1 million on UK soil upon release, it became the highest-grossing foreign language film in the UK and grossed $53.36 million on US soil, a considerable sum for a film in a foreign language.
Today, Bong Joon Ho is very busy, since he is preparing an animated film and an English-language science fiction film in which Robert Pattinson could play.
Rediscover our best-of from the Cannes Film Festival 2019: