ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS  MAY 28, 2019 All Hail Bong Joon-ho The 2019 Cannes Film Festival wrapped Saturday with an awards ceremony that coronated a new king: director Bong Joon-ho, who became the first Korean filmmaker in the history of the fest to receive the Palme d’Or. His winning film, Parasite (or Gisaengchung), has been hailed as nothing short of a masterpiece: “I staggered out of the theater thrilled by Parasite’s singular vision, yes, but also feeling pretty wrecked,” Vanity Fair’s own Richard Lawson wrote in his review. Clearly, the Cannes jury agreed; as Yohana Desta notes, they voted unanimously to honor Bong with the event’s highest honor. And his winning streak will readily continue even as the festival fades into the rearview mirror: next month’s Munich Film Festival will honor the director with a career retrospective, screening films like Memories of Murder, Snowpiercer,and Okja, his 2017 Netflix film that also debuted at Cannes. Could the Oscars be next? Elsewhere in HWD, the Little Gold Men team tries to tackle that very question in our podcast’s latest episode; Emma Thompson proves why her performance in Late Night has critics raving in an exclusive clip from the film; Julie Miller details everything you missed if you didn’t tune into Lifetime’s latest Harry/Meghan movie; and Laura Bradley tries to get to the bottom of a Bachelorettemystery.

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