The 92nd Academy Awards , the most prestigious Movie Award Scheme in the world successfully came off last Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
South Korean film Parasite emerged the biggest winner, scooping four awards including Best Film – becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize, followed closely by 1917 with 3 awards and Joker with 2 awards.
The film`s director Bong Joon-ho took the award for the Best Director , best original screenplay award and best International Film.
It has now managed what no other subtitled film has done in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards and won best picture.
“I feel like I’ll wake up to find it’s all a dream. It all feels very surreal,” Bong said.
Producer Kwak Sin-ae, who collected the trophy, said: “I’m speechless. We never imagined this to happen. I feel like a very opportune moment in history is happening right now.”
Joaquin Phoenix also won the award for best actor for his remarkable performance in the origin story about Batman’s nemesis, Joker.
For the very first time in his career, Brad Pitt won his first Oscar for acting, he took home the award for best supporting actor for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s film, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,”
check list of winners below
Best picture
- Winner: Parasite
Best actress
- Winner: Renee Zellweger – Judy
Best actor
- Winner: Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Best supporting actress
- Winner: Laura Dern – Marriage Story
Best supporting actor
- Winner: Brad Pitt – Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Best director
- Winner: Parasite – Bong Joon-ho
Best original screenplay
- Winner: Parasite – Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin Won
Best adapted screenplay
- Winner: Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi
Best animated feature
- Winner: Toy Story 4
Best documentary feature
- Winner: American Factory
Best international feature
- Winner: Parasite – South Korea
Best original song
- Winner: (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again – Rocketman (Elton John & Bernie Taupin)
Best original score
- Winner: Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Best cinematography
- Winner: 1917 – Roger Deakins
Best visual effects
- Winner: 1917 – Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler & Dominic Tuohy
Best film editing
- Winner: Ford v Ferrari – Michael McCusker & Andrew Buckland
Best costume design
- Winner: Little Women – Jacqueline Durran
Best sound editing
- Winner: Ford v Ferrari – Donald Sylvester
Best sound mixing
- Winner: 1917 – Mark Taylor & Stuart Wilson
Best production design
- Winner: Once Upon A Time in Hollywood – Barbara Ling & Nancy Haigh
Best make-up and hairstyling
- Winner: Bombshell – Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan & Vivian Baker
Best live action short
- Winner: The Neighbors’ Window
Best animated short
- Hair Love
Best documentary short
- Winner: Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)