Oscars 2020: 15 WTF Moments

1. Parasite Beats 1917 For Best Picture

Oscars 2020 Bong Joon Ho
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But the biggest WTF moment of the night was surely Parasite's shocking Best Picture triumph, defeating hot favourite 1917 for the big award, and giving the Oscars the first-ever foreign language Best Picture winner in their 92-year history.

It was a jaw-dropping and jubilant moment, with many expressing surprise that the typically safe-skewing Oscars dared to finally give the biggest gong of all to a non-English language movie.

While it's unlikely that anything will ever quite match the explosiveness of 2017's La La Land/Moonlight screw-up, Parasite winning was nevertheless a colossal WTF moment in the annals of Oscar history, and one that won't be forgotten for years, perhaps even decades, to come.

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