Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho (Korean: 봉준호), born September 14, 1969, is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. His films are characterised by emphasis on social themes, genre-mixing, black humor, and sudden tone shifts. He first became known to audiences and achieved a cult following with his directorial debut film, the black comedy Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), before achieving both critical and commercial success with his subsequent films: the crime thriller Memories of Murder (2003), the monster film The Host (2006), the science fiction action film Snowpiercer (2013), and the Academy Award-winning black comedy social thriller Parasite (2019), all of which are among the highest-grossing films in South Korea, with Parasite also being the highest-grossing South Korean film in history. All of Bong's films have been South Korean productions, although both Snowpiercer and Okja (2017) are mostly in the English language. Two of his films have screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival—Okja in 2017 and Parasite in 2019; the latter earned the Palme d'Or, which was a first for a South Korean film. Parasite also became the first South Korean film to receive Academy Award nominations, with Bong winning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, making Parasite the first film not in English to win Best Picture. In 2017, Bong was included on Metacritic's list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century. In 2020, Bong was included in Time's annual list of 100 Most Influential People and Bloomberg 50.
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- 2023 · Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club as Self
- 2022 · Kultur-King Korea as
- 2021 · 보는 것을 사랑한다 as
- 2021 · Next Entertainment, Visionary as Self
- 2020 · Making Parasite as Self
- 2020 · 봉준호, 장르가 되다 as
- 2019 · Modern Korea as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Your Song as Himself
- 2018 · You Quiz On The Block as Self (voice)
- 2018 · Memories as Self
- 2018 · The Crunchyroll Anime Awards as Self - Presenter
- 2017 · The Clouzot Scandal as Self
- 2015 · Searching for Bong as Himself
- 2014 · Understanding Movies as Himself
- 2014 · Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen as Self
- 2013 · Where is my DVD? as Self
- 2012 · Ari Ari the Korean Cinema as Himself
- 2012 · Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer as Himself
- 2012 · Doomsday Book as Lee Joon-ho
- 2012 · A Brave New World as Lee Joon-ho
- 2011 · Kurosawa's Way as Self
- 2010 · Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother as Himself
- 2009 · Can I Borrow a Light? as Guitar Man
- 2008 · Crush and Blush as English teacher
- 2008 · 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight as Self
- 2007 · Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young as Himself
- 2005 · Making Memories of Murder as Himself
- 2002 · No Blood No Tears as Officer (cameo)
- 1994 · Incoherence as Paperboy's Brother
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · The Host : Histoires de famille as Bong Joon-ho