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Ava DuVernay, Sandra Oh and others celebrate ‘Parasite’s’ historic Oscar win

Celebs took to Twitter to celebrate Bong Joon Ho's historic win for “Parasite," the first foreign film to win best picture.
Celebs took to Twitter to celebrate Bong Joon Ho’s historic win for “Parasite,” the first foreign film to win best picture.
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By Dorany PinedaStaff Writer 
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Hollywood was stoked after “Parasite” took home the Oscar for best picture on Sunday.

Olivia Munn, Ava DuVernay, Andrew Yang, Sterling K. Brown and other famous folks showed the South Korean film and its director, Bong Joon Ho, some love on Twitter after “Parasite” made history at the 92nd Academy Awards by becoming the first foreign-language film to win best picture.

DuVernay was among the first celebs to express her excitement online. She posted a GIF on her Twitter with the caption: “MASSIVE! HISTORIC! LANDMARK! PARASITE! The world is big and it is beautiful and films from everywhere deserve to be on that stage winning @TheAcademy’s highest honor. This is wonderful and right. #Oscars.”

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Here’s a sampling of other reactions:

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Dorany Pineda

Dorany Pineda is a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She joined the newsroom in 2018 and was a general assignment reporter on Metro and Calendar, wrote obituaries and covered books, the publishing industry and the local literary scene. She helped cover Los Angeles City Hall and also drought, water and climate change in California. Pineda was previously on the police beat for City News Service and was a general assignment reporter for the Los Angeles Wave newspaper. She earned her bachelor’s in literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2012 and a journalism certificate from East Los Angeles College in 2017.

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