The South Korean dark comedy “Parasite” on Sunday won the best international feature film Oscar at the 92nd Academy Awards, a category that until this year known as best foreign language film.
“I applaud and support the new direction that this change symbolizes,” said writer-director Bong Joon-ho, who bested a field that included Pedro Almodovar’s “Pain and Glory” and Ladj Ly’s “Les Miserables.”
The film, about a poor South Korean family infiltrating a wealthy household, is expected to battle “1917,” Sam Mendes’s innovative and personal World War I movie, for the night’s top prize, best picture.
“Parasite” beat out Poland’s “Corpus Christi,” “Les Miserables” from France, Spain’s “Pain and Glory,” and “Honeyland” from North Macedonia.
