Parasite (Korean: 기생충; RR: Gisaengchung) is a 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller

film directed by Bong Joon-ho, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Han Jin-won. It stars Song
Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Jang Hye-jin, and Lee Jung-
eun and follows the members of a poor family who scheme to become employed by a wealthy family
by infiltrating their household and posing as unrelated, highly qualified individuals.
Parasite premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2019, where it became the first
South Korean film to win the Palme d'Or. It was then released in South Korea by CJ
Entertainment on 30 May 2019.
The film received unanimous critical acclaim and is considered by many critics as the best film of
2019 and one of the best of the 2010s. It grossed over $266 million worldwide on a production
budget of about $11 million, becoming the highest-grossing South Korean film. Among its numerous
accolades, Parasite won a leading four awards at the 92nd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best
Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film, becoming the first non-
English film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.[note 1] It was also the first South Korean film to
receive Academy Award recognition, and the first film since 1955's Marty (and third film overall) to
win both the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Picture. It also won the Golden Globe
Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English
Language, and became the first film not in English to win the Screen Actors Guild Award for
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.