In addition to picking up Best Film and Best Director prize, the Bong Joon-ho-directed black comedy thriller has earned Song Kang Ho a Best Supporting Actor kudo.
- December 9, 2019
AceShowbiz - Bong Joon Ho has scored a massive double from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, picking up the Best Film and Best Director honours for his hit movie "Parasite".
The movie also earned a Best Supporting Actor win for Song Kang Ho.
Sunday's (December 08) big announcement comes just days after the New York Film Critics voted Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" its Best Film. The gangster epic came in second behind "Parasite" in L.A.
Los Angeles Film Critics Association officials will hand out their awards on January 11, 2020 at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, where Elaine May will also be honoured as the recipient of the Career Achievement Award.
The full list of winners is:
- Best Picture: "Parasite"
- Best Director: Bong Joon Ho, "Parasite"
- Best Actor: Antonio Banderas, "Pain and Glory"
- Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film: "American Factory"
- Best Screenplay: Noah Baumbach, "Marriage Story"
- The Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award: "Ja'Tovia Gary's The Giverny Document"
- Best Animation: "I Lost My Body"
- Best Actress: Mary Kay Place, "Diane"
- Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lopez, "Hustlers"
- Best Editing: Todd Douglas Miller, "Apollo 11"
- Best Production Design: Barbara Ling, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"
- Best Supporting Actor: Song Kang Ho, "Parasite"
- Best Music/Score: Dan Levy, "I Lost My Body"
- Best Cinematography: Claire Mathon, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" and "Atlantics"
- Best Foreign-Language Film: "Pain and Glory"
