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Bong Joon-ho
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Joon-ho at the 92nd Academy Awards
4 Nominations / 4 Wins
Role Director, Screenwriter
Born September 14, 1969
Daegu, South Korea
 

Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean filmmaker. He garnered international acclaim for his second feature film, the crime drama Memories of Murder (2003), before achieving commercial success with his subsequent films, the black comedy monster movie The Host (2006) and the dystopian sci-fi Snowpiercer (2013), both of which are among the highest-grossing films of all time in South Korea. His films feature social themes, genre-mixing, black humor, and sudden mood shifts. Two of his films have screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival—Okja, which premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and Parasite, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. He became the first Korean director to win the Palme d'Or. For Parasite, Bong received Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. Bong was the first Asian filmmaker to receive all four awards for one film. He also tied the record of most wins in a single night with Walt Disney who set the record in 1953, and the only person to win four awards for a single film.

Wins[]

92nd Academy Awards, 2019
Best DirectorParasite
Best International Feature FilmParasite
Best Original ScreenplayParasite (shared with Han Jin-won)
Best PictureParasite (shared with Kwak Sin-ae)

Nominations[]

92nd Academy Awards, 2019
Best DirectorParasite
Best International Feature FilmParasite
Best Original ScreenplayParasite (shared with Han Jin-won)
Best PictureParasite (shared with Kwak Sin-ae)


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