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Parasite was the first non-English film to win Best Picture

South Korea's Parasite won four Oscars at the 2020 ceremony

Bong Joon-ho's Parasite won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards in February 2020, the first non-English-language film to do so. It also won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: South Korea's Parasite won four Oscars at the 2020 ceremony. The figure is taken from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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