South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's social satire "Parasite," about a poor family of hustlers who find jobs with a wealthy family, won the Cannes Film Festival's top award, the Palme d'Or, on Saturday. The genre-mixing film had been celebrated as arguably the most critically acclaimed film at Cannes this year and the best yet from the 49-year-old director of "Snowpiercer" and "Okja." Two years ago, Bong was in Cannes' competition with "Okja," a movie distributed in North America by Netflix. The festival's second place award, the Grand Prize, went to French-Senegalese director Mati Diop's "Atlantics." Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne shared the best director for "Young Ahmed."

Source: ABC News May 25, 2019 06:56 UTC