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    How 'Parasite' made Oscars history as the first foreign-language best picture winner

    by Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times Feb 10, 2020 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - By the time Leonardo DiCaprio crashed the poolside "Parasite" party at the Sunset Tower Hotel on the weekend of the Golden Globes, the awards-season momentum for Bong Joon Ho's acclaimed thriller had been building for months.

    "Parasite" premiered at Cannes in May, unanimously winning the festival's prestigious Palme d'Or prize, the first in a series of firsts for its filmmaker and for his native South Korea. It resurfaced in September at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, key stops on the awards circuit, before opening in

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