At a campaign rally in Colorado, US
President Donald Trump slammed the Oscars for giving the best picture
award to the South Korean film, Parasite, and also took aim at Brad Pitt.
"By the way, how bad were the Academy Awards this year?" Trump asked the crowd at the rally on Thursday.
"And the winner is... a movie from South
Korea! What the hell was that all about? We've got enough problems with
South Korea, with trade. On top of it, they give them the best movie of
the year! Was it good? I don't know. Let's get Gone with the Wind back please. Sunset Boulevard. So many great movies," he added.
"I thought it was the best foreign film, right?" he asked in reference to the best international feature film category, which Parasite also won.
Parasite made history by being the first foreign-language movie to win the Oscar for best film.
The response of the film's US distributor, Neon, came a few minutes later on Twitter.
"Understandable, he can't read," it said, accompanying a clip of the President's rant.
Trump also criticised the Oscars' for
awarding Pitt for Best Supporting actor. "And then you have Brad Pitt, I
was never a big fan of his," he said.
"He got up, said a small wise guy
statement. Little wise guy. He's a little wise guy," said the President
about a speech in which the actor said the time he had been given to
talk was longer than former White House national security adviser John
Bolton was given when he offered to testify at Trump's impeachment
trial.
The president also lashed out at teenage climate activist Greta
Thunberg, TIME magazine's 2019 person of the year. "This year I got
beaten out by Greta - you know Greta?" he asked.
"Last year I got beaten out - I've won it, but when the world revolves
around all of us, we should be chosen... I mean, we've won it. But we
should win it every single year."
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