Parasite wins Oscar for Best Picture in Academy first as Bong Joon Ho scoops up three awards

Tom Hanks and Charlize Theron were among the Hollywood stars chanting Up Up as acceptance speeches for Parasite s Oscar win for Best Picture overran. The genredefying South Korean drama Parasite has become the first entirely foreignlanguage film in history to win the Best Picture Oscar, beating the widely tipped war epic 1917. In a night of unexpected results, director Bong Joon Ho s satire on Korea s class system won four Academy Awards. The film was described by Telegraph critic Robbie Collin as