Bong Joon Ho won 4 Oscars, tying Walt Disney's record for most Oscars won in one night
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- "Parasite" director Bong Joon Ho won four Oscars at the 92nd Academy Awards — best original screenplay, best international feature film, best director, and best picture.
- Bong matched the record set by Walt Disney in 1954 for most Oscars won in a single night.
- "Parasite" became the first South Korean film to win an Oscar of any kind, and beat Sam Mendes and "1917" to best director and best picture.
- Bong also became the seventh director of color to win best director this decade, while he and Taika Waititi (who won best adapted screenplay for "Jojo Rabbit") became the first pair of writers of colour to win both screenplay awards.
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Bong Joon Ho won four Oscars at last night's Academy Awards, matching the record set by Walt Disney for the most Academy Awards won in a single night.
In 1954, at the 26th Academy Awards, Disney won best documentary feature for "The Living Desert," best documentary short subject for "The Alaskan Eskimo," best short subjet (cartoon) for "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom," and best short subject (two-reel) for "Bear Country."See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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