List of accolades received by Parasite
Parasite is a 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho. The screenplay was co-written by Bong and Han Jin-won. The film stars Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam and Jang Hye-jin. It won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Korean film to receive the award as well as the first film to do so with a unanimous vote since 2013's Blue Is the Warmest Colour. It was selected as the South Korean entry for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, Bong's second selection after 2009's Mother.
Parasite premiered at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2019. It was released in South Korea by CJ Entertainment on 30 May 2019, and in the rest of the world by Neon in late-2019. The film had a limited release on 11 October 2019 in Los Angeles and New York City, before expanding wider starting 18 October. It has grossed $257 million worldwide including $53.3 million in the United States and Canada, becoming Bong's highest-grossing release; it is currently the nineteenth highest-grossing domestic film in South Korea history. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator surveyed 412 reviews and judged 99% to be positive.
Parasite received widespread critical acclaim, with particular praise for Bong's screenplay and direction, editing, and production values, as well as the performances of the actors, especially Song. Among its numerous accolades, Parasite won four awards at the 92nd Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film. It became the first South Korean film to receive Academy Award recognition, as well as the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture.
At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, the film had three nominations, winning Best Foreign Language Film. At the 73rd British Academy Film Awards, the film received four nominations including, Best Film and Best Direction and won for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Not in the English Language. At the Screen Actors Guild Awards, it became the first non-English language film to win for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Accolades
Top-ten lists
Parasite appeared on many critics' year-end top-ten lists, among them:- 1st Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
- 1st Angie Han, Mashable
- 1st Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail
- 1st Ben Travers, IndieWire
- 1st Candice Frederick, Harper's Bazaar
- 1st Cary Darling, Houston Chronicle
- 1st Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com
- 1st Dan Jackson, Thrillist
- 1st David Crow, Den of Geek
- 1st Don Kaye, Den of Geek
- 1st Film Comment
- 1st Film School Rejects
- 1st Flood Magazine
- 1st Godfrey Cheshire III, RogerEbert.com
- 1st Guy Lodge, The Guardian
- 1st Hyperallergic
- 1st IGN
- 1st IndieWire
- 1st Jessica Kiang and The Playlist Staff, The Playlist
- 1st Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
- 1st Karen Han, Polygon
- 1st Katie Rife, The A.V. Club
- 1st Keith Watson, Slant Magazine
- 1st Laura Di Girolamo, Exclaim!
- 1st Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
- 1st Matt Goldberg, Collider
- 1st Matt Neglia, Next Best Picture
- 1st Matthew Jacobs, Huffington Post
- 1st Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
- 1st Monica Castillo, RogerEbert.com
- 1st Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com
- 1st Noel Murray, The A.V. Club
- 1st Online Film Critics Society
- 1st Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
- 1st Rotten Tomatoes
- 1st Sara Stewart, New York Post
- 1st Sarah Ward, Screen Daily
- 1st Sean P. Means, Salt Lake Tribune
- 1st Seongyong Cho, RogerEbert.com
- 1st Sydney Morning Herald
- 1st Tasha Robinson, Polygon
- 1st Tom Reimann, Collider
- 1st Valerie Ettenhofer, Film School Rejects
- 1st Vinnie Mancuso, Collider
- 2nd Alex Biese, Asbury Park Press
- 2nd Anne Thompson, IndieWire
- 2nd Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News
- 2nd David Ehrlich, IndieWire
- 2nd David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter
- 2nd Jonathan Sim, Vocal
- 2nd Kate Erbland, IndieWire
- 2nd Mark Hughes, Forbes
- 2nd Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
- 2nd Sean Fennessey and Adam Nayman, The Ringer
- 2nd Sight & Sound
- 3rd A. O. Scott, The New York Times
- 3rd Alison Willmore, New York magazine
- 3rd Amy Taubin, Artforum
- 3rd Bilge Ebiri, New York magazine
- 3rd Complex
- 3rd Consequence of Sound
- 3rd David Sims, The Atlantic
- 3rd Good Morning America
- 3rd Lawrence Toppman, The Charlotte Observer
- 3rd Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
- 3rd Mark Dujsik, RogerEbert.com
- 3rd Matt Singer, ScreenCrush
- 3rd Max Weiss, Baltimore
- 3rd Natalie Zutter, Den of Geek
- 3rd Peter Sobczynski, RogerEbert.com
- 3rd Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
- 3rd Samuel R. Murian, Parade
- 3rd Ty Burr, Boston Globe
- 3rd Yahoo! Entertainment
- 4th Adam Chitwood, Collider
- 4th Allison Shoemaker, RogerEbert.com
- 4th Alonso Duralde, The Wrap
- 4th Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
- 4th Jake Coyle, Associated Press
- 4th Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post
- 4th Kristy Puchko, RogerEbert.com
- 4th Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly
- 4th Matt Patches, Polygon
- 4th Michal Oleszczyk, RogerEbert.com
- 4th Odie Henderson, RogerEbert.com
- 4th Sheila O'Malley, RogerEbert.com
- 4th Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter
- 4th Tom Brook, Talking Movies
- 5th David Edelstein, Vulture
- 5th Derek Smith, Slant Magazine
- 5th Justin Kroll, Variety
- 6th Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter
- 5th Tomris Laffly, RogerEbert.com
- 6th Caroline Siede, The A.V. Club
- 6th Collin Souter, RogerEbert.com
- 6th Eli Glasner, CBC
- 6th Eric Kohn, IndieWire
- 6th Jon Frosch. The Hollywood Reporter
- 6th Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
- 6th Stephanie Zacharek, Time
- 6th Kyle Smith, National Review
- 7th Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast
- 8th Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
- 9th Brian Truitt, USA Today
- 9th Eugene Hernandez, Film at Lincoln Center
- 9th Max O'Connell, RogerEbert.com
- 9th Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor
- 9th Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
- 10th Ben Kenigsberg, RogerEbert.com
- 10th Tom Gliatto, People magazine
- Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times
- Cameron Bailey, Toronto International Film Festival
- James Verniere, Boston Herald
- Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
- Dana Stevens, Slate
- Sheila Nevins, MTV Documentary Films
- Stephen Rebello, Playboy
- 1st Den of Geek
- 1st Karen Han, Polygon
- 2nd Kevin O'Connor, The Ringer
- 3rd Amanda Dobbins, The Ringer
- 3rd Film School Rejects
- 4th Norman Wilner, Now Magazine
- 4th Sean P. Means, Salt Lake Tribune
- 5th /Film
- 5th Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
- 7th Gregory Ellwood, The Playlist
- 8th Los Angeles Film Critics Association
- 10th Chris Plante, Polygon