FULL TEXT Best Picture: acceptance speech by Kwak Sin-ae, Lee Mie-kyung
Best Picture Award winners for “Parasite.”/ Yonhap
KWAK SIN-AE: I'm speechless. We never imagined this to ever happen, we're so happy. I feel like a very opportune moment in history is happening right now. I express my deepest gratitude and respect for all the members of The Academy for making this decision. Thank you
LEE MIE-KYUNG: Hi, everybody. I really like to thank director Bong. Thank you for being you, and I like everything about him, his smile, his crazy hair, the way he talks, the way he walks and especially the way he directs. What I really like about him is his sense of humor and the fact that he can be really make fun of himself and he never takes himself seriously. Thank you. I would like to thank everybody who has been supporting parasite and who has been working with Parasite and who has been loving Parasite. I would like to thank my brother who has been always supporting and building our dreams even when it looked like impossible dreams. Thank you J, I want to thank my brother J. And especially I really really really want to thank our Korean film audience, our moviegoers who have been really supporting all our movies and never hesitated to give us straightforward opinions. Thank you. That made us really never been able to be complacent and keep pushing the directors, the creators. Keep pushing the envelope and without you, our Korean film audience we're not here. Thank you very much.
Typed by Cho Hae-min